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the tips of the feathers; iiuder wing-coverts and axillaries 

 yellow. Total length 12-5 inches; culmen 2-05 ; wing 7-3 ; 

 tail 4'1 ; tarsus 1'4. Type in my collection. 



The fine adult male bird which has served as the type is 

 labelled " Amazons'' {Dr. Wucherer), but it has the make of 

 a Bogota skin. Another male from Panama {Schlilter), also 

 in my collection, shows the buff barring on the bases of the 

 feathers of the uuderparts, and is apparently a bird not fully 

 adult. 



A female example from Santa Elena, Medellin {Salmon), 

 likewise in my possession, differs from the male in having 

 the throat and fore neck black, the yellow stripe which crosses 

 the face being prolonged down the side of the neck and paler 

 in colour, and in having at the base a few transverse black 

 markings : the hind neck is blacky the tips of the feathers 

 being red, this colour appearing as a median line down the 

 neck. The feathers of the underparts are tipped with 

 crimson, but their black bases are barred with buff and show 

 very distinctly tlirough the red. I take this specimen to be 

 an immature bird, but it may not be so ; if it be adult, then 

 the difference between it and tiie adult female of C. hcemato- 

 gaster will be at once perceived in the former having the 

 bases of the feathers of the hind neck black, whereas in C. 

 hcematogaster they are white. 



-^ 2. Chrysoptilus mari^, sp. n. 



Similar to C. icteromelas, but much smaller, and differs in 

 having all the tail-shafts bright golden yellow, those of the 

 central feathers being brown at the tip ; the rump spotted. 

 Total length 8-5 inches ; culmen 1'05 ; wing 4-5 ; tail 2*8; 

 tarsus 0*9. 



Hub. Chamicuros, E. Peru. The type is in my collection. 



a 3. Dendrobates fidelis, sp. n. 



Similar to D. olicinus, but differs in having the whole of the 

 top of the head and the occiput red ; the fore neck and chest 

 brownish olive, Avith small spots and shaft-stripes of dull 

 fnlvcscent white, not barred. Total length 5"3 inches,; 

 culmen ()'8; wing 3"() ; tail 1*7 ; tardus ()'()8. 



