1104 MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON THE 



No. 11, p. 161-162, the blue-thvoated form is, however, the true 

 G. lavinia of Cassin, while the birds inhabiting Veragua and Costa 

 Rica will have to stand as C. I. dahnasi Hellm. C. I. lavinia 

 ranges from Darien through Western Colombia to Is.W. Ecuador, 

 whence the Tring Museum received several specimens, obtained 

 by Mr. G. Flemming at San Javier, on the banks of the Rio 

 Cachabi. It may be mentioned that the same institution 

 possesses also an adult male, taken by Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg 

 in 1895 at Juntas, Rio Dagua. 



35. Calospiza gyroloides gyroloides Lafr. 



Aglaia gyroloides Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. x. p. 277(1847 — new 

 name for Aglaia peruviana (xiQC Tanagra peruviana Desmarest) 

 Swainson, Anim. in Menag. 1838, p. 356 : " Peru" — errore ! we 

 substitute Colombia). 



Calospiza gyroloides deleticia Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. "Wash. xxi. 

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



Calliste gyroloides Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 325 (Mountain chain 

 between Bacaramanga and the Magdalena) ; Berlepsch. Journ. f. 

 Orn. 1884, p. 289 (Bacaramanga) ; Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 499 (Concordia, 6000 ft. ; Remedies, 2360 ft.). 



No. 632. J ad. Jimenez, 1600 ft.; 6.viii.07.— Wing 81 ; 

 tail 55 ; bill Hi mm. 



Nos. 2838, 3754. J J ad. Pueblo Rico, 5200 ft. ; 6.xi., 

 14.ix.09.— Wing 78^, 82 ; tail 54, 57 ; bill 12 mm. 



No. 3766., J ad. ~ Siato, Rio Siato, 5200 ft. ; 22.ix.09.— Wing 

 79 ; tail 54; bill 12 mm. 



Nos. 3753, 3767. $ $ ad. Siato, Pueblo Rico: 13, 22.ix.09.— 

 Wing 74, 75 ; tail 52, 51 ; bill 11^ mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet leaden grey, bill black." 



This series as well as other specimens from Rio Lima (Cauca 

 Yalley, 5000 ft.), Bucaramanga and Bogotji bear out the character 

 claimed by Mr. Bangs for his deleticia, viz., all have the lesser 

 wing-coverts green like the remainder of the wing. Unfortunately, 

 however, this form is the true gyroloides, as may be easily seen 

 on referring to the original description. Lafresnaye's name was 

 proposed as a mere substitute for the preoccupied term, peruviana 

 of Swainson, who expressly says : ^^shoulder-coverts green, instead 

 of golden yellow." The habitat assigned to peruviana by 

 Swainson — Lafresnaye does not trouble himself with localities — 

 is, of course, erroneous since Peruvian birds, as will be shown 

 hereafter, possess a very large, golden yellow shoulder patch. 

 Swainson's type specimen is more likely to have come from the" 

 highlands of Colombia, to which the green -shouldered race appears- 

 to be confined. While I cannot, therefore, agree with Mr. Bangs 

 in the application of the name gyroloides, yet this author is 

 perfectly right in considering the Colombian and Central American 

 faces as distinct. The study of the fine series in the Munich 

 Museum, together with other specimens lent by Count Berlepsch, 

 Dr. Hartert, and Dr. ron Lorenz of A'^ienna, shows that there 



