3. BRACHYGALBA. 173 



Above bronzj- green ; wings brownish black, coverts and outer 

 secondaries with edgings like the back : cap and upper neck 

 brown ; superciliaries broader behind, and nape fulvous : beneath, 

 throat white ; breast blackish ; belly and crissum pure white : 

 flanks black ; bill and feet black: whole length 7 inches, wing 

 2-75, tail 2-;3, bill from gape 2. Female similar, but middle of 

 belly ferruginous. 



Hub. Venezuela. 



a, b. cS 2 'id- sk. Lake of Valencia, Venezuela Sclater Coll. 



{Goeriny). (Types of the species.) 



'". c? $ ad. ; d. Lake of Valencia, Venezuela SaJvin-Godman Coll. 

 Ad. sk. {Goerinij). 



4. Brachygalba salmoni. 



liracliyKalba saluioui, Scl. et ,Sah\ P. Z. S. 187U, p. 53-5 (^\jitioquia) ; 

 Sd. MoHOf/i: Jac. and Puff-bds. p. 43, pi. xiii. 



Bronzy green, cap shaded with brown ; throat and inner webs 

 of the wing-feathers at the base white ; middle of beUy and 

 crissum ferruginous ; bill black ; feet brown : whole length 1-2 

 inches, wing 2-8, tail 2-;j. Female similar, but throat pale 

 fulvous. 



llab. State of Autioquia, Colombia. 



«. $ ad. sk. Kio Nichi, Antioquia, U. S. C. Sclater Coll. 



(^>S(dmon). 



b. cj ad. sk. llio Nichi, Antioquia, U. S. C. Salvin-Godniau Coll. 



(Salmon). (Types of the species.) 



5. Brachygalba albigularis. 



Galbula idbigularis, Spu; Ac. Bras. i. p. 54, t. 57. tig. 1 ; Gray et 

 Milch. Gen. B. i. p. 63; Bp. Consp. i. p. \o-2; Cab. in Erscli tt. 

 Grub. Enc. sect. 1, lii. p. 300; Heichenh. Randb. p. 84; Burm. 

 Sijit. Ueb. ii. p. :iQ-2. 



Bracliygalba albigiUaris, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyy. p. 13 ; Sd. P. Z. tS. 

 l.So7, p. j.'G2 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. l'U7 ; id. Monyr. Jac. and Puff- 

 bds. p. 45, pi. .Yiv.j ISd. et Salt: Nomend. p. 105; Tacz. Orn. Per 

 iii. p. IIU. 



Biacliycex albogularis, Cab. et Rein. Mm. Rein. iv. p. 215. 



8moky brown ; back, edgings of wings except primaries, and 

 margins of tail bronzy green ; eyebrows, sides of head, and throat 

 white ; blotch in the middle of belly dark ferruginous ; inner webs 

 of wing-feathers banded with white at the base ; bill wliite ; feet 

 black: whole length t5-2 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-], bill from gape 

 2-4. ^ 



Hub. Upper Amazonia. 



«. Ad. sk. liio Javavi, Upper Amazons (Bates). Sclater ColL 



6. Ad. sk. liio Javari, Upper Amazons {Bates). l^'uvhased. 



