1100 • . MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON THE 



27. EuPHONiA FULViCRissA Scl. [a subsp. ?]. 



Euphonia falvicrissa Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 276 (Jan. 

 1857. — "Santa Martha in New Grenada"); Cassin, Proc. 

 Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 1860, p. 143 (Falls of the Truando) ; 

 Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 498 (Remedios, Neche : 

 Antioquia) ; Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn. 1884, p. 288 (Bucara- 

 manga). 



No. 2036. S ad. Noanama, 29.viii.08.— Wing 51 ; tail 29 ; 

 bill 8| mm. 



No. 2530. $ ad. El Tigre, 10.ii.09.— Wing 50 ; tail 28 ; 

 bill 8 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet black, bill black, lower mandible blue." 



The adult male from Noanama and another, picked out from a 

 set of Bogota skins, in the Munich Museum are exactly inter- 

 mediate between specimens of E . fulvicrissa, from Panama and 

 Chiriqui, and E. f. purpurascens Hart. *, from N.W. Ecuador. 

 The back, upper wing-coverts, sides of the head and throat are 

 glossy metallic steel-blue in the Colombian skins, dull greenish 

 blue or bottle-gi'eeh in those from Central America, and bright 

 purple-blue, inclining to violet, in jmrjmrascens. Two skins of 

 the last named form f have very little, or no white at all, on the 

 outermost rectrix, while in the specimens from Chiriqui, 

 Panama, and Bogota a large portion of the inner web is white. 

 As, however, the male from Noanama agrees, in that respect, with 

 purpurascens, much impoi-tance cannot be laid vipon this 

 character. 



The type of E . falvicrissa in the British Museum, said to be 

 fi'om Santa Marta, where, however, recent travellers did not meet 

 with the species, is to be examined in order to ascertain whether 

 it belongs to the Colombian or Yeraguan race. 



28. EuPHONIA XANTHOG ASTER CHOCOENSIS Hellm. 



[^Euphone xanthogaster Sundevall, Vetenskaps Akad. Handl. 

 1833, p. 310, pi. 10. fig. 1 (= 6 ad.) (1834.— "Brazil").] 



Euphonia xatdhogaster chocoensis Hellmayr, Rev. Frang. d'Orn. 

 no. 22, p. 23 (1911.— Rio Cajon, W. Colombia). 



No. 2015. d ad. Noanama : 26.viii.08— Wing 61 ; tail 35| ; 

 bill 7^ mm. 



Nos. 2235, 2236 J. J 6 ad. Rio Cajon: 3.xi.08.— Wing 58, 

 59; tail 33, 34; bill 8 mm. 



Nos. 2086, 2176. 2 2 ad. Sipi : 16.ix., lO.x.08.— Wing 56, 

 57 ; tail 30, 31 ; bill 7A-8 mm. 



" Ii-is black (6), dark brown ( ? ), feet dark grey ( J ), grey ( 5 ), 

 bill black, mandible blue." 



■ * Novit. Zool. viii. p. 377 (1901.— Paiiibilar, N.W. Ecuador; type in Tring 

 Museum). 



t The type from Pambilar; and aiiotaer from San Ja%ier, both in the Tring 

 Museiim. 



X Type of subspecies. 



