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Long, tota 8*8, alae 4*6, caudse 3'8. 



Hab. In republ. Equatoriana. 



Obs. Affiiiis B. eximice, sed major, dorso toto viridi uec uropygio 

 caeruleo. 



I have seen only one specimen of this species, which was re- 

 ceived by the Freres Verreaux of Paris from Ecuador. It is closely 

 allied to B. exh?iia, but is larger in all its dimensions, nearly equalling 

 in size B. cucuUata. Its distinguishing character is the rmiform 

 green back, whence I have named it chloronotu. I have examined 

 multitudes of B. eximia, and invariably found the uropygium blue. 



4. EuPHONiA coNCiNNA, Sclatcr. 



E. hiruadinacea, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 18.51, p. 156? — 

 E. affinis. Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 1/5 ? 



E. supra nigro-violacea valde purpurascens ; pileo summo fiavo : 

 infra gutture nigro-violaceo ; abdomine aurantio-flavo : cauda 

 subtus immaculate nigra. 



Long, tota 3"8, alse 2*2, caudse \'A. 



Hab. In Nova Grenada. 



Obs. E. chloroticce similis, sed cauda subtus immaculata, fronte 

 latins nigro, dignoscenda. 



This bird is one of the group so closely affine to E. chlorotica, but 

 may be distinguished from all of them (as E. melanura from E. vio- 

 lacea and its affines) by the absence of white markings on the exterior 

 rectrices. The middle of the belly is also of a brighter orange tint, 

 and the black front is broader than in E. chlorotica. A skin of this 

 species, received from the MM. Verreaux, is labelled E. hirundinacea, 

 Bp., and it is probably the species referred to by that name in the 

 " Note surles Tanagras," Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 156. It is 

 not however the true E. hirundinacea, Bp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 

 p. 117; for on examination of the type of that species, which is now 

 in the Derby Museum at Liverpool (labelled E. hirundinirostris .'), 

 I found it coequal ^\-ith the bird described by me (Cout. to Orn. 

 1851, p. 86) as JS". laniirostris, which again is not the true lanii- 

 rostris of MM. de Lafresnaye and d'Orbigny, but a closely allied 

 species, called in the Baron de Lafresnaye' s museum E.fortirostris. 

 This must, of course, for the future bear the first proposed specific 

 appellation hirundinacea, and will stand as follows : — 



5. EuPHONIA HIRUNDINACEA, Bp. 



Evphonia hirundinacea, Bp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 117. — E. 

 laniirostris, Sclater, Cont. to Orn. 1851, p. 86. — E. hirundini- 

 rostris, Bp. in i\Ius. Derb. — E.fortirostris, Lafr, in mus. suo. 



E. ceneo-nigra : capite summo antico et corpore toto subtus flav is : 

 rectricibus 2 utrinque extimis late albo intus notatis : rostro 

 et pedibus nigris. 



Long, tota 4*5, aljK 2*5, caudal 1'5. 



Hab. In Guatimala {Bp.) ; Chirique in Veragua {Kellett in Mus. 

 Brit.) ; Nova Grenada ? 



Obs. E. violacece similis, sed aeneo-nigra nee purpurascens : rostro 

 robustiore. 



