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197. EUPHONIA PECTORALIS. 



Pipra pectoralis Lath. Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. lviii (1801 : 

 Brazil) . 



Euphonia pectoralis Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 80 ; 

 Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 319 (Paraguay). 



Euphonia berlepschiana Bertoni, Aves Nuev. Paraguay, 

 p. 98. 



a. ? ad. Sapucay, March 29, 1904. 



b, c. (J ad. „ July 1904. 



Bill black above, grey below, black at tip ; tarsi and feet 

 dark slate-coloured ; iris brown. 



These examples are identical with others in the National 

 Collection from Brazil. I agree, therefore, with Dr. Ihering 

 in uniting E, berlepschiana of Bertoni with the present 

 species. 



[A very rare bird; one was shot while feeding on the 

 fruit of the Palo bianco in July 1904 and another during 

 March of the same year. — W. F.~\ 



198. Euphonia nigricollis. 



Lindo azul y oro cabeza celeste Azara, Apunt. i. p. 390. 

 no. xcviii. (1802). 



Tanagra nigricollis Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxii. 

 p. 412(1819). 



Euphonia nigricollis Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 61 ; 

 Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 114 (Paraguay) ; Ihering, 

 Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 319 (Paraguay). 



a, b. $ ? ad. Sapucay, April 1904. 



c, d. $ ; e. ? ad. Sapucay, May 1904. 



f.g. S; h,i. ? ad. „ June 1904. 



S . Bill black above, grey below ; tarsi and feet purplish 

 slate-coloured ; iris brown. 



This species appears to me to be divisible into three races — 

 Paraguay form, Ecuador form, and Guiana form. The male 

 examples from Paraguay are of a darker orange-colour on the 

 under surface ; E. nigricollis nigricollis, the northern or Guiana 

 form, is of a somewhat paler orange-colour below, being in- 

 termediate between E. nigricollis nigricollis and E. nigricollis 



