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and 0. neera seems complete. In all other localities, C. oenone can 

 be distingnished from C. neera by its blue throat. 



Hah. Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, and E. Ecuador. 



a, b. S ad. ; c. 5 Trinidad. Salvin-Godman & 



ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



d. (S ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Goerinff). 



«,/• 6 ad. ; (/, A. $ Caracas. E. Dyson [C.]. 



ad. sk. 



i. c? ad. ; j, k. 2 Valley of Aragua, Venezuela, E. Dyson [C.]. 



ad. sk. 



/. (^ ad. sk. San Esteban, Venezuela (iVeAr- Sclater Coll. 



korn). 



m-p. cS ad.; q, >: $ Colombia (Bogota make). Gould Coll. 



ad. sk. 



s-io. c? ad. ; x. $ Ecuador. Salvin-Godman & 



ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



y,z. c? ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (0. Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll, 



. %)• 

 a'. c( ad. sk. Rio Napo, Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



Transitional Specimens. 

 b'-d'. S ad. sk, Upper Amazons {E. Bartlett). Gould Coll. 

 e'. (S ad. sk. Pebas, Amazons, Aug. (J. Gould Coll. 



Hauxivell). 



2. Chrysuronia neera. 



Ornismya neera, Less, i^ Delattre, Sev. Zool. 1839, p. 18. 



Ornismya josepbinae, i?oi<rc. Sj- Muh. Eeu. Zool. 1848, p. 272. 



Cbrysuronia josepbinse, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 9; Bp. Rev. Zool. 

 1854, p. 254 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. v. pi. y26 (May 1859) ; id. 

 hitr. Troch. p. 104 ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 753, 979, 1873, 

 p. 289, 1879, p. 630 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-3Ioiiches, ii. p. 10, 

 pi. 30, iv. p. 186 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 207 ; Elliot, 

 Syn. Troch. p. 169 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mtts. Caen, i. p. 438 ; Tacx. 

 P. Z. -S. 1882, p. 40 ; id. Orn. Per. i. p. 409. 



Cbrysurouia neera, Goidd, Intr. Troch. p. 105. 



Cbrysuronia cserideicapilla, Goidd, Intr. Troch. p. 165. 



Cbrysuriscajosepbinse, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 42, 



Hylocbaris josepbinse, Muls. Sf Verr. Class, Troch. p. 38. 



Polytraus josephinae. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 133. 



Aclult male. Similar to that of C, cenone, but the entire under 

 surface, including the throat, glittering green. In the female the 

 diseal spots of the sides of the throat are green, without any shade 

 of blue. 



Typical males of this bird have the entire under surface glittering 

 green ; but at Pebas, and other places in the Upper Amazons Valley, 

 examples occur which have a few blue feathers on the chin, and are 

 thus intermediate between C. neera and C. cenone. 



Gould separated two other forms of this bird by admitting the 

 validity of Bourcier's 0. josepliincc as distinct from Lesson's 0. neera, 

 and describing C. ccenileicajnlla. With the types of both the latter 



