1114 MR, C. E, HELLMAYR ON THE 



Ko. 3752. $ juv. Pueblo Rico : 13.ix.09.— Wing 88 ; tail 81 ; 

 bill 17 mm. 



" Iris brown (adult), grey (juv.), feet brown, bill black." 



The adult males have the back deep vinous red, the upper 

 wing-coverts and outer webs of the quills scarcely duller. The 

 females are smaller ; the crest is duller and more of a scarlet red ; 

 the throat rather lighter red ; the back and Avings are much 

 duller, brownish vinaceotis ; breast and abdomen decidedly paler 

 pink, with the greyish bases of the feathers more plainly showing 

 through, etc. 



The young bird has the upper parts dusky brown, with the tail- 

 coverts and rectrices dull testaceous, the lower surface dingy 

 cinnamomeous passing into dark brown on throat and foreneck. 

 Thei'e is no trace of the i-ed crest, only a few of the crown-feathers 

 are narrowly edged with dull reddish. 



P. cristata is peculiar to the mountainous districts of Western 

 Colombia. It is only occasionally met with in Bogota collections. 



47. Chlorothraupis olivacea Cass. 



Orthogonys olivaceus Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad, 1860, 

 p. 140(1865. — "Cordilleras Mountains, on the River Truando, 

 New Grenada"); Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p, 502 (Reme- 

 dios, Keche). 



Chloroihraiqiis olivacea Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. 1898, p. 483 

 (Cachabi, N.W. Ecuador). 



Nos. 2137, 2232. S 6 ad. Sipi : 11.x. ; Rio Cajon : 2.xi.08.— 

 Wing 92, 94; tail 63^, 65 ; bill 18^, 19^ mm. 



No. 2379, S inim." Novita : 9,~xii.08.— Wing 89 ; tail 63 ; 

 bill 18| mm, 



Nos. 1962, 2101, 2111, 2123. ? $ ad. & imm. S. Joaquim : 

 3.viii. ; Sipi : 21, 23, 26.ix.08.— Wing 85, 86, 86, 90 ; tail 59-60 ; 

 bill 18-20 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet blue or dark grey, maxilla black, 

 mandible blue." 



Ndult males are dark bi'ownish green above and have the 

 feathers of the pileum broadly centred with blackish ; the lower 

 parts are nearly uniform olive-green except the upper throat, 

 which is light yellow. The females are much smaller, ligliter 

 green above, and more yellowish green below with the whole 

 throat and middle of foreneck pale yellow; the pileum is uniform 

 olive-green like the back. 



G. olivacea is peculiar to the humid forest-district of Western 

 Colombia and N.W. Ecuador, 



48. Heterospingus xanthopygtus Scl, 



Tachyphonus xanihopygitis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 158, 

 pi. Ixix. (Apr. 1855 — " in Nova Grenada" ; descr. 5 ); idem, 1. c. 

 1855, pL xc. (descr. J ; Bogota) ; Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 



