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No. 3. Mnsenm Seilern, (?) ad., Ciimbre de 

 Valencia, October 12, 1910. S. M. Klages 

 coll Wing .5-t ; tail 49 ; bill 9 mm. 



No. 4. Tring Mnsenm, (c?) ad., Primavera, 



Canca, West Colombia, ODO m, Raap coll. . Wiag 58i ; tail 57 ; bill 10 mm. 



No. 5. Amer. Mns. Nat. Hist., "S" ad., Rio 

 Cauca, Colombia, June 1898, J. H. Batty coll. 

 No. 71758. Type of P. nlleni Oberbolser Wing 57 J ; tail 53J ; liill ID mm. 



No. 6. Tring Mnsenm, (c?) ad., Bogota coll. 



(ex Mautou) Wing 62 ; tail 50 ; bill 10 mm. 



No. 7. Tring Mnsenm, "S" ad., West side of 

 Picliinclia, Ecnador, November 1898. 

 Goodfellow coll Wing 02; tail 55i ; bill lOJ mm. 



No. 8. Tring Mnsenm, ''d " imm., West side of 

 Corazon, Ecuador, September 1898. Good- 

 fellow coll. Wing OOJ; tail 50; bill 9i ram. 



No. 9. Tring Mnsenm, "<?" ad., We.st side of 

 Corazon, Ecuador, September 1898. Good- 

 fellow coll Wing 58 J ; tail 53 ; bill 10 mm. 



No. 10. Tring Mnseum, "?"ad., West side of 

 Pichincha, Ecnador, November 1898. Good- 

 fellow coll Wing 55 ; tail 50 ; bill 9J mm. 



No. 11. Mnsenm Berlepsch, 6 ad., Iluanibo, 

 North Pern, March 15, 1880. J. Stolzmann 

 coll Wing 62 ; tail 57 ; bill 10 mm. 



No. 12. Mnseum Berlepsch, " d" ad. Mapoto, 

 East Ecnador, Jannary 15, 1884. J. Stolz- 

 mann coll Wing 61 ; tail 55 ; bill lO mm. 



The small difFerences noticed by Hellraayr and Seilern * as e.xisting between 

 Venezuelan skins (Nos. 1 — 3) and two undonbted P. ophthalmicus (Nos. 11, 12) 

 are not borne out by the larger series which came to hand since oar remarks were 

 written. It is true, the two examples from the Canca River, including the type of 

 P. alleni, agree with the Cnmbre birds in the light cinereous pileum, clear yellowish 

 green back, bright snlphnr-ycllow colour of the anterior anricniar region, and in the 

 lesser extent of the whitish chin-spot, as contrasted to the two specimens in the 

 Berlepsch Collection (Nos. 11, 12); but the series from Ecnador shows considerable 

 variation in all these characters, and the Bogotil skin (which would be expected to 

 belong tr> the pale northern race) is fully as dark as the Huambo bird (No. 11). 



In the adult male from Pichincha (No. 7) and the immature one from Coraz6n 

 (No. 8) the anterior .auricular region is white, scarcely shaded with yellowish, as ia 

 the Huambo specimen (No. 11), while in the two others from the same localities 

 (Nos. 9, 10) it is even more deeply olive-yellow than in the Cnmbre and Canca 

 examples. The crown is light cinereous in No. 9 (Corazon), as in the latter, but very 

 dark slate-grey in No. 7 (Pichincha), while the others are intermediate. As to the 

 colour of the back, only one of the Ecuadorian skins (No. 8, Corazon) matches 

 those from Venezuela, bnt the three others are also decidedly lighter green than 



• Arch. f. Xaturg. 78, Abt. A. Heft 5, September 1!U2, p. 77. 



