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I can find no difference between the Brazilian bird and the Bogota 

 specimens {E, brevirostris) sufficient to warrant their separation. 



12. EUPHONIA RUFICEPS. 



Euphonia ruficeps, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. At. in Mag. de Zool.1837, 

 p. 30 ; d'Orb. Yoy. p. 268. pi. 22. fig. 2 ; Gray, Geu. p. 367. sp. 18 ; 

 Bp. Consp. p. 232; R. Z. 1851, p. 136; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 10; 

 Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 85. 



Nitenti-ccerulescenti-niger, cervice postica intense violacea : gutture 

 nigro : pileo summo cum fronte castaneis : abdomine aureo me- 

 dialiter aurantiaco : macula in pogonio externo rectricis uncB 

 utrinque e^timce et tectricihus subalaribus albis. 

 Long. totą 4'0, alae 2'4, caudse 1*2. 



Hab. Bolivia, Yuracares (d'Orb.) ; Venezuela, Caraccas {Lev- 

 raud) . 



Mus. Parisiensi, Lafresnayano, Derbiano. 



A bird iu tbe collectiou lately transmitted to the Paris Museutn by 

 M. Levraud from Caraccas, difFers from the true Bolivian ruficeps 

 only in having rather more chestnut colouring on tbe head, and tbat 

 of a lighter and more orange-coloured tinge. I should be unwilling 

 to separate it specifically without seeing more specimens. 



13. Euphonia fulvicrissa, sp. nov. 



Supra nitenti-cEneo-nigra, pileo postice rotundato flavo : gutture toto 

 cum cervice versus ventrem in semicirculum terminata aneo-nigris : 

 abdomine aureo, medialiter aurantiaco : crisso fulvo : rectricis unce 

 utringue estimce macula in pogonio externo et tectricibus subalari- 

 bus albis ; kis flavescente tinctis. 

 Long. totą 3* 7, alse 2-0, caudse 1'2. 

 Hab. S. Martha in New Grenada. 



I possess a single specimen of this Euphonia wbich was received 

 by MM. Verreaux from their collector at S. Martha. It appears to 

 me to constitute a new species of this genus, distinguished by the 

 way in which the black throat is produced toward3 the breast and 

 rounded at its termination, and the peculiar colour of the crissum. 



14. Euphonia chalybea. 



Tanagra chalybea, Mikan, Faun. et Flor. Bras. pi. 3. fig. 1 <? , 2 ? . 



Euphone cenea, Sund. Vet, Ac. Sv. 1834, p. 309. pi. 11. fig, 4; 

 Less. Descr. d. Mamm. et Ois. p. 348. 



Euphonia mnea, Gray, Gen. p. 367. sp. 21 ; Bp. Consp. p. 233; 

 R. Z. 1851, p. 136; Notės. 1. Tang. p. 11. 



Euphonia pardalates , Less. Echo d. M. S. 1844. 



Euphonia chalybea, Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 85. 



" Euphonia pyrrhuloides , Natt.," Gray, Gen. App. p. 16. 



Euphonia chloritica, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Corpore supero cum gula summa intense aneis : vitta frontali et ab- 

 domine toto flavis, rostro crasso. 



