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the other, a male, until April 13. Through the courtesy of Eugene 

 Eisenmann I have examined the specimens now in the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Both are well feathered with bill and 

 tail only one-third or slightly less grown. In the rectrices the two 

 central feathers are metallic green, the others cinnamon-rufous. The 

 chin in the female is cinnamon-buff. The male had lost all the 

 feathers in this area. 



In the lower Rio Atrato Valley in northwestern Colombia, Haffer 

 (Joe. cit., p. 38) has recorded ruficauda at Sautata, and on the Rio 

 Salaqui. Both localities are on the Caribbean slope, in Choco, near 

 the boundary with Panama. The race ranges across central Colombia 

 in the Cauca and middle Magdalena valleys to Venezuela where it 

 is found north of the Orinoco (except in the northwest in the Mara- 

 caibo area), the Guianas, Trinidad, and Tobago, and south to the 

 Rio Branco in northern Brazil. In Tobago and Trinidad, Belcher 

 and Smooker (Ibis, 1936, pp. 795-796) report 2 to 4 eggs in the nest. 

 In 2 sets of 3, presented to the British Museum (Natural History) 

 by C. F. Belcher, taken at Valencia Road and Sangre Grande, 

 Trinidad, May 24, 1931, the eggs are white, elliptical in form, with 

 the shell smooth with a high gloss. Measurements of the 2 sets are 

 as follows : 22.1 x 18.1, 22.7 X 18.2, 23.6 X 18.3 ; and 21.3 X 18.8, 22.3 X 

 19.0, 22.3x19.2 mm. In the account by Belcher and Smooker (cit. 

 supra, p. 796) they mention that "we have twice seen lightly-spotted 

 eggs of this species." Three eggs in the U. S. National Museum of 

 the closely allied race Galbula ruficauda brevirostris, collected by 

 M. A. Carriker, Jr., at Villa Felisa, 15 kilometers southwest of 

 Cucuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, are finely and sparingly 

 spotted with pale cinnamon. 



GALBULA RUFICAUDA MELANOGENIA Sclater 



G. [albula] nielanogenia P. L. Sclater, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., no. 3, 1852, p. 61. 

 ("South America" = Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.) 



Characters. — Four central rectrices metallic golden green; chin 

 black. 



A male, collected at Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, February 17, 

 1966, had the iris Verona brown; bill black; tarsus dull honey 

 yellow ; toes grayish brown ; underside of toe pads honey yellow ; 

 claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro), 

 wing 80.1-83.5 (81.4), tail 93.6-101.0 (99.3, average of 9), culmen 

 from base 49.6-56.8 (54.0), tarsus 11.4-13.0 (12.5) mm. 



