330 On some recently described Species of Calospiza. 



nape, are provided with the new designation, C. cyanocephala 

 corallina (Orn. Monatsber. xi. p. 18). 



In their joint paper on Kalinowski's Peruvian collections, 

 Count Berlepsch and Dr. Stolzmann discriminated C. ar- 

 genteafulvigula (type ex Tambillo, N. Peru), while C. a. viridi- 

 collis Tacz., from Huiro, is shown to be the same as the 

 birds from Central Peru, viz. C. a. argentea (' Ornis/ xiii. 

 part ii. 1906, p. 80). 



Mr. Bangs, in 1908, distinguished C. gyroloides deleticia, 

 basing his description upon three adult birds taker, by 

 Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer at San Antonio, Western Colombia 

 (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. xxi. p. 160) . Its chief characteristic, 

 when compared with C. g. gyroloides (Lafr.), is the lack of 

 the bright yellow shoulder-patch. We have, in the Munich 

 Museum, a good series from various localities in the Western 

 Cordillera of Colombia, as well as several specimens from 

 Bio Lima and "Bogota," in all of which the lesser wing- 

 coverts are green, not bright yellow. Yet more information 

 about the ranges of the two races is required, for skins from 

 Paramba, N.W. Ecuador, Quito, and Chanchamayo, Central 

 Peru, agree with the Central American bird in the possession 

 of the yellow shoulder-patch ! 



The last addition to the genus Calospiza was made by 

 myself when, in 1909, 1 described C. palmeri as anew species. 

 This beautiful bird, of which a detailed description will be 

 found in the ' Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie/ no. 4, August 

 1909, pp. 49-50, was also discovered by Mr. Mervyn G. 

 Palmer, in October 1908, at Sipi, a place situated on the 

 river of the same name, in the province of Choco, Western 

 Colombia. C. palmeri agrees in general form and shape 

 of the bill with C. brasiliensis (Linn.), but is very unlike 

 it in coloration. In fact, it needs comparison only with 

 C. cabanisi (Scl.), from Western Guatemala, which, however, 

 differs in many important characters. The black on the 

 face is much less extended, being restricted to the lores and 

 a narrow line across the forehead and round the base of the 

 lower mandible ; the pileum is of a dull dark blue with the 

 bases of the feathers largely black ; the interscapular region 



