1092 MR. C. E. HELLMAYR OX THE 



B. auricularis Sliarpe, C.-it. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 386 (1885.^ 

 Bogota; Pallatanga, W. Ecuador; Simacu, Bolivia; no type 

 specified). 



B. vielanotis dcpxlalus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. xxi. 

 p. 160 (1908.— San Antonio, Rio Call, W. Colombia, 5800 ft.). 



jSTo. 3748. 6 ad. Pueblo Rico, 5200 ft., 10.ix.09.— Wing 65 ; 

 tail 57 ; bill 10^ mm. 



Nos. 3749, 3751. 2 (?)ad., $ ad. Pueblo Rico : 10,ll.ix.09.— 

 Wing 64, 61i ; tail 60, 56 ; bill 10 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet greyish yellow, nia,xilla black, mandible 

 grey." 



These specimens agree with a series from Bogota, Ecuador, and 

 Peru, some of which 1 had previously compared and found 

 identical with Tschudi's type kindly forwarded by the authorities 

 of the Neuchatel Museum. I ain unable to discover any constant 

 cliaracter on which to separate the Colombian and Ecuadorian 

 birds from typical Peruvian skins, B. auricularis Sharpe being 

 bH,sed on purely individual variations, such as the colour of 

 the pale crown stripe etc. When compared with B. tristriatus 

 melanotis Lawr. *, of Costa Rica and Chiriqui, the three examples 

 from Pueblo Rico difi'er exactly as indicated by Mr. Bangs, 

 viz., much brighter green back, deeper (about maize) yellow 

 underparts, and lai-ge, blackish loral spot. However, in all these 

 points they are absolutely similar to typical tristriatus, to which 

 Mr, Bangs, evidently misled by Sharpe's key, does not make 

 any reference at all. B. t. tristriatus had already been recorded 

 from Bucaramanga, IST. Colombia, by Count Berlepsch. 



W'hile I cannot admit the distinctness of the Colombian birds — 

 for which, moreover, Sharpe's term auricularis would be an earliei' 

 name — the inhabitants of the mountains of Venezuela constitute 

 a fairly well-defined race, B. t. meridanus Sharpe 1', i^ecognisable 

 by the reduction or absence of the black loral and auricular spots. 



We have in the Munich Museum, three adults from Merida, 

 and five males and one female from the Cumbra de Valencia ; 

 and, at Tring, I have examined two skins from Caripe, State of 

 Cumana, and one adult fi'om Bucarito, Tocuyo {Mocquerijs). 



14. BASILEUTEItUS FULVICAUDA SEMTCERVINUS Scl. 



\ ALuscicajya fulvicauda Spix, Av. Bras. ii. j?. 20, pi. xxviii. fig. 2 

 (1825— no locality)]. 



B asileuter us seniicer villus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 84 (1860. — 

 Nanegal, W. Ecuador); Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 494 

 (Remedios, Neciie) ; Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn. 1884, p. 284 

 (Bucaramanga). 



No. 613. ? ad. Juntas, Rio Dagua, 1000ft.: l.vii:.07.— 

 Wing 60 ; tail 49 ; bill 12| mm. 



* J5. melanotis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H.N.Y. ix.p. 95 (186S. — Cervantes, Costa 

 Pvica). 

 t B. meridanus Sharpe, Cat. R. Brit. Mns \. p. 387 (1885.— Merida, Venezuela). 



