Hans von Berlepscli on new Trocliilidse. 295 



velvet-black in the true E. jugularis, with rather a bluish 

 than a greenish suffusion. The green of the upper wing- 

 coverts in the new bird is less indued with golden bronze 

 than in E. jugularis proper. 



The two skins of my collection pretty well agree in the 

 characters distinguishing them from true E. jugularis. I got 

 these birds in February last year th'rough the well-known 

 dealer in natural objects, Mr. Henry Wliitely, o£ Woolwich, 

 who labelled them as coming from the island of Nevis. I 

 have no reason to doubt the correctness of this statement, 

 although it requires further confirmation, I may add, 

 however, that in the same consignment Mr. Whitely also 

 forwarded to me a specimen of E. holosericeus longirostris, 

 Gould, a subspecies differing from the true E. holosericeus in 

 the same way that my new E. jugularis eximius does from 

 E. jugularis, and that this skin again bears a label on which, 

 in Mr. Whitely's handwriting, "Nevis^^ is noted. Therefore 

 I think it very likely that both these long-billed forms of the 

 two species of Eulampis are to be found on one and the same 

 island, and this may be the little-known island of Nevis. 



4. DlPHLOG^NA IRIS BUCKLEYI, Subsp. UOV. 



(^ ad. nitore pilei in fronte et ad latera minus rubro potius 

 aureo-viridi, guise gemma pallidius amethystina viridi 

 adumbrata, necnon abdomine, uropygio rectricibusque 

 obscurius cinnamomeo-brunneis a mare DiphlogcEna iris 

 distinguendus. (^ ad. Long. tot. 135, al. 82, caud. 57, 

 rostr. 27|, caudse furca 17 mm. ? ad. Long. tot. 130|, 

 al. 76, caud. 50, rostr. 29, caudse furca 11 mm. 

 Habitat. Ecuador (eastern side of the Andes?), coll. C. 

 Buckley. 



Mus. H. V. B. ((J and $ received from H. Whitely). 

 This is but a slight subspecies of D. iris, Gould (the latter 

 having been originally described from Northern Peru), repre- 

 senting it in Ecuador, probably on the eastern side of the 

 chief range of the Andes, where it was collected by the late 

 Mr. Clarence Buckley, to whom science is indebted for so 

 many interesting discoveries. I have accordingly named it 

 in memory of him. 



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