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bronzy shade below is peculiar, but that may be either 

 individual or a character of that age in which our specimen 

 is. It will therefore be best to place E. eveliiKE among the 

 synonyms of E. smuvagdlnipectus , though we may, if we 

 wish to be very cautious, add a query, since E. smaragdini- 

 pectus has not yet, to our knowledge, been met Avith so far 

 east. It is also Count Berlepsch^s opinion that E. cvelince 

 is only the young of E. smaragdinipectus. 



E. aurea, A. B. Meyer (Auk, 1890, p. 315), which I have 

 already discussed in Nov. Zool. iv. p. 148, is no doubt a 

 young female of E. cupreivenfris, for Count Berlepsch 

 possesses Bogota skins which are quite similar, and others 

 which come between it and other undoubted females of 

 E. cupreiventris : we may therefore, without hesitation, place 

 E. aurea among the synonyms. The dark golden shade 

 on golden-green feathers is sometimes due to skins having 

 been relaxed and made damp for mounting. 



Genus Doleromyia. 

 We can at present only recognize one single species of 

 this genus. I have two typical specimens of D. pallida, 

 Richmond, from the island of iSJargarita, and after careful 

 comparison with typical D. fullax from Venezuela I cannot 

 find even the slightest difference between them. I lent one 

 of the two Margarita skins to Mons. Eugene Simon, in 

 Paris, and he also kindly informed me that it was indistin- 

 guishable from Venezuelan B. fallax. On the other hand, 

 the two North Colombian skins in the British Museum have 

 decidedly longer beaks ; and as also Mons. Simon wrote to 

 me that the Colombian skin in his collection was " un peu 

 different'' from the Venezuelan and Margarita skins, it 

 seems probable that there is a (typical) Eastern Venezuelan 

 and a Western Colombian form of D. fallax. Neither 

 D. fulviveniris nor D. cervina refer to the Colombian long- 

 billed form ; therefore this form would require a new name if 

 really distinct, but it requires more evidence to prove that 

 this is the case. 



