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2. Compsocoma sumptuosa. 



Tachyplionus sumptuosus, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 463 ; Puch. Arch. Mus. 



Par. vii. p. 379, pi. 23. 

 Tanao-ra sumptuosa, Bp. Consp. i. p. 239. 

 Compsocoma sumptuosa, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 140; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



185-5, p. 84, 185(3, p. 238, 1859, p. 139, et 1860, p. 86 (Ecaador) ; 



id. Si/n. Av. Tan. p. 64 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 74 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 167 (Venezuela), et 1879, p. 50 (Antioquia) ; iid. Nomencl. 



p. 20 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 513 (0. Peru), et 1882, p. 13 (N.E. 



Peru) ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 484. 

 Tachyplionus flaviiiucha, Tsck. Faun. Per. p. 208. 

 Tacliyphonus elegaus, Less. Echo d. M. S. 1844, p. 57 ; id. Descr. d. 



Mamm. et 0/s. p. 349 (?) ; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 171. 

 Compsocoma elegaus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 140; Scl. Cat. A. B.f. 74. 

 Compsocoma cyanoptera, Cab. J.f. O. I860, p. 235. 

 Compsocoma sumptuosa evanoptera, Berl. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 546, et 1884, p. 289 (W. Ecuador). 



Above black, passing more or less into olivaceous green on the 

 rump ; wings and tail black ; lesser wing-coverts and outer margins 

 of the wing- and tail-feathers bine ; head black ; a broad stripe from 

 the vertex to the uape and the body beneath bright yellow ; bill and 

 feet black : whole length 7 inches, wing 4, tail 3"2. Female 

 similar. 



Hah. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



In examples from the vicinity of Quito the blue edgings to the 

 wing- and tail-feathers are of the same hue as the shoulders (C. 

 cyanoptera) ; in Venezuelan, Eastern-Ecuador, and Peruvian skiua 

 the blue edgings are much brighter in hue ; but examples from 

 Antioquia are more or less intermediate. {Cf. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 500.) 



a. Subsp. typica. 



a. Ad. st. Caracas, Venezuela. D. Dyson [C.]. 



h. c? ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela {Goering). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



c. Ad. sk. San Lucas, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. San Jos^, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Marca, Peru {Jelski). Sclater Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Peruvian Amazons. Sclater Coll. 



g. Ad.sk. Eastern Peru (rsc/jKc?*"). Sclater Coll. 



a'. Intermediate between subsp. typica and subsp. cyanoptera. 



a. Ad. sk. St. Helena, Antioquia {Salmon). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Ketiro, Antioquia {Salmon). Sclater Coll. 



c. d. cJ $ad. sk. Retire, Antioquia {Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Subsp. cyanoptera. 



a. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. J. Gould, Esq. 



6. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk, Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Baisa, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 f. Ad. sk. Paste, Ecuador {Lehmann^. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



