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exception of a broad, bright saiiVon -yellow band which starts from 

 above the eye and descends the sides of the neck where it joins 

 the yellow malar stripe. Back bright olive-green ; upper wing- 

 coverts dull iudigo-blue, those of the greater series dusky on the 

 inner web ; primary coverts and remiges black, edged with dull 

 indigo-blue, the innermost secondaries washed with the same 

 colour on both webs ; rectrices blackish, exteriorly bi'oadly mar- 

 gined with bright olive-green. Cheeks and malar region bright 

 saffron -yellow ; large chin-spot pale yellow, some of the feathei'S 

 with slight dusky edges ; throat and sides of the foreneck black, 

 the fea.tliers of the former with half-concealed, subterminal spots 

 of pale yellow ; a large, bright golden-yellow patch in the middle 

 of the f oi'eneck ; remainder of under parts olive-green, lighter 

 and more yellowish than the back ; under tail-coverts lemon- 

 yellow, with the basal half olive-green. Axillaries dusky, tipped 

 with greenish ; under wing-coverts greyish white. 



" Iris brown, feet dark brown, maxilla black, mandible yellow." 

 Wing 93 ; tail 60 ; bill 14 mm. 



This species, of which Mr. Palmer sent only a single adult bii'd, is 

 most nearly related to B. edwardsi Elliot.* The two species agree 

 in the colour of the baciv, wings and tail, in having the breast and 

 abdomen olive-green, with a lai-ge, golden-yellow patch on the 

 foreneck, also in the shape and coloration of the bill ; but 

 B. edwardsi may be distinguished at a glance by having the sides 

 of the head uniform pale blue, without any yellow or black. 



B. aitreocincta is known only from the Tatama Mountain, on 

 the sources of the San Juan River, in the Western Cordillera of 

 Colombia. 



B. edwardsi is an inhabitant of the high mountains of Southern 

 Colombia and Northern Ecuador. The type, in the Paris Museum, 

 was brought by M. Triana from an uncertain locality in " New 

 Grenada." A single specimen was obtained by Prof. Orton at 

 Chillo, on the western slope of the volcano Antisana, 10,000 ft. 

 alt.t, Ecuador, and the British Museum received three examples 

 from Pasto, S. Colombia t, through Mr. Lehmann. Count Ber- 

 lepsch possesses a female picked out from a lot of Quito-skins. 

 There is, in the United States Museum at Washington f, a skin 

 said to be from Esmeraldas, N.W. Ecuador, but this locality is, 

 no doubt, incorrect. 



42. COMPSOCOMA NOTABILIS Jard. 



Tanagara (sic) notahilis S-AY(\'n\e, New Edinburgh Philos. Journ. 

 (n. s.) ii. p. 119 (July 1855. — Eastern Cordillera, Ecuador. 

 W. Jameson coll.). 



Nos. 3785, 3786. S 6 ad. Tatama Mountain, 6700 ft., 

 8.X.09.— Wing 99, 100 ; tail 82, 83; bill 19 mm. 



" Iris brown, feet black, maxilla black, mandible blue." 



* Nouv. Avcli. Mus. Paris, i. Bull. p. 77, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1865.—" Nouvelle Grenade , ). 



t Salvin, Ibis, 1874, p. 307. 



X Not Ecuador, as stated in the Cat. R. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 150. 



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