BlRBS OF WESTERN COLGMBIA. 1117 



[Mus. Brit. 2 imm. Remedios, Antioquia. Type of D. salmoni. 

 —Wing 58 ;. tail 42 ; bill 12 mm.] 



The splenclirl series forwarded by Mr. Palmer lea.A^es no longer 

 any doubt that Dclcnis salmoni is the female of JV. rosenhergi. 

 The females from Novita agree perfectly with the type in the 

 British Museum, with which they were kindly compared by my 

 friend Dr. Hartert. Moreover, they correspond exactly to a 

 detailed description drawn up by me when in London some years 

 ago. The type of N. rosenhergi was obtained at Cachabi, N.W, 

 Ecuador, 450 feet, in November 1896, by Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg, 

 and is faithfully depicted on the plate quoted above. 



The female may be described as follows : — Above dull yellowish 

 olive, pileum rather darker, hind crown somewhat shaded with 

 cinereous ; upper wing-coverts like the back ; quills dusky, 

 exteriorly edged with yellowish olive ; rectrices dusky, washed 

 with pale yellowish olive; sides of the head dull olive ; throat 

 and foreneck dingy buff"; remainder of under parts huffy white, 

 more purely Avhite along the middle of the abdomen ; under tail- 

 coverts light buff'; axillax^ies and under wing-coverts white; 

 distinct margin along the inner web of the i-emiges olive-yellow. 

 Wings and tail are much shoi'ter than in the adult male, and the 

 bill is likewise shorter, with the lower mandible pale horn-browai 

 instead of whitish. 



The young males (nos. 2324, 2331) in coloration resemble the 

 female, but are very nearly as large as the adult males. They 

 show a. few orange-yellow feathers on the sides of the head. The 

 mandible is pale brown as in the females. 



In structure, H. salmoni agrees with H. chrysomelas Scl. & 

 Salv. *, from Southern Central Amei'ica. The females also 

 pi-esent the same style of coloration, that of H. salmoni being, 

 however, easily recognizable by having the throat and foreneck 

 buff (instead of olive-yellow), the belly buffy Avhite (not pale 

 yellowish), and the upper parts of a considerably darker tinge. 



While H. salmoni and H. chrysomelas ai'e strictly congeneric, 

 I am a little doubtful whether they can be kept in the genus 

 llemithraiijns, for the typical species, H. rvficapiUa Vieill., and 

 its allies have a much shorter, broader, less constricted bill. 



H. salmoni is peculiar to the humid forest-districts of Westei-n 

 Colombia and North-western Ecuador. 



52. BUARREMON BRUNNEINUCHA Lafr. 



Embernagra brunneinucha Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. ii. -p. 97 

 (1839.— "Mexico"). 



Baarremon hrunneinuchus Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 504 (Concordia, Medellin, Santa Elena). 



No. 3743. 6 ad. Pueblo Rico : 9.ix.08.— Wing 81 ; tail 83 ; 

 bill 17g mm. 



* Tacliuphonus chri/sotiielas Scliitcl' & Salvin, V , 7i. 8. 1869, p, 440, pi. xxxii, 

 (Cordillera del Chucu. Verag-ua). 



