210 Mr. P. L. Sclater's Synopsis of the 



into Venezuela. Several skins from the vicinity of Quito 

 are in Salvin and Godman's collection. Jelski obtained spe- 

 cimens in the Junin district of Central Peru ; and Goering has 

 sent us skins from the neighbourhood of Caracas, in Vene- 

 zuela. Upon comparing these with a Bolivian example in my 

 collection, which was obtained by Mr. David Forbes, F.ll.S., 

 at Chichalula, in the province of Yungas, in June 1861, 1 can 

 find no differences worthy of record. In Bogota skins there 

 is certainly a rather darker hue on the front and sides of the 

 head, and the dimensions are perhaps slightly inferior; but 

 regarding the series as a whole, I see no grounds whatever 

 for specific separation. 



Mr. Cassin {l.s.c), though he does not actually unite 

 D. sittoides and D. similis, seems to have been of the same 

 opinion. 



3. DiGLOSSA GLORIOSA. 



Diglossa gloriosa, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 784, pi. 46, 

 fig. 1, et Nomencl. p. 15. 



Nigra, uropygio in cinereum trahente, abdomine medio cas- 

 taneo : tectricibus alarum minoribus et superciliis indi- 

 stinctis ceerulescenti-canis : rostro uigro, pedibus corneis : 

 long, tota 5 "2, alee 2*5, caudse 2"2. 



Hab. Andes of Merida, Venezuela. 



Mus, P. L. S. et S.-G. 



On his first expedition to Merida Mr. Goering obtained a 

 single male specimen of this distinct Diglossa on the Paramo 

 of La Culata. 



During his second expedition to Merida, in 1873, Mr. 

 Goering procured further examples of this species, like the 

 former, of the male sex. The female is still unknown ; and 

 no other collector seems to have obtained the bird at all. 



The nearest ally of D. gloriosa is the next species, from 

 which, however, it is at once distinguishable by its wholly 

 black throat, chest, and flanks, only the middle of the belly 

 and crissum being of a dark chestnut brown. 



Mr. Goering notes the iris of this species as '' dai"k 

 brown.^' 



