1120 MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON THE 



considerably larger, lonsfer as well as slenderer, than in both of its 

 allies.— Wing : ^'^ 70-75, $ 67-70 ; tail : cS 58-63, $ 53-58 ; 

 bill 14-1 5| mm. 



Type in the Zoological Museum, Munich, no. 09,5862. c? ad. 

 Condoto, Rio Condoto, W. Colombia, 150 feet, 27 March, 1909. 

 M. G. Palmer coll. no. 2573. 



Material. Two adult males from Western Colombia, eight 

 adults (of both sexes) and young from Western Ecuador (Quito, 

 Paramba, San Javier, Lita, Carondelet, etc.). 



Observations. I cannot perceive any difference between Co- 

 lombian and Ecuadorian specimens. The characters indicated 

 above are perfectly constant in the large series (15) examined 

 by me. 



^•1. a. occidentalis ranges from near sea-level up to about 

 3500 feet (Paramba, Rio Mira). 



54. PSITTOSPJZA RIEFFERII RIEFFERII Boiss. 



Tanagra Riefferii Boissonneau, Rev. Zool. iii. p. 4 (1840. — 

 Santa-Fe-de-Bogota, Colombia). 



Psittospiza riefferi Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 505 

 (Envigado, Concordia, Medellin, Remedios, Santa Elena). 



Nos. 2790, 2791. c^ ? ad. Tatauui Mountain, 7600 ft, 9.X.09. 

 Wing 110, 106 ; tail 81, 79 ; bill 18 mm. 



" ii-is brown, feet and bill scai-let." 



Agreeing with specimens from Bogotii and Western Ecuador, 

 but bill slightly larger. 



P. r. riefferii is well-known as an inhabitant of the mountains 

 of Colombia and Ecuador. In Peru and Bolivia it is replaced 

 by P. riefferii elegans Tsch. *, of which we have a good series 

 from various localities in the Munich Museum. 



55. Saltator atripennis Scl. 



Saltator atripe^vnis Sclater, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. viii. 

 p. 261 (1856. — Popayan, Colombia); Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 505 (Medellin). 



No. 2821. c^ ad. Pueblo Rico, 5200 ft., 29.X.09.— Wing 108; 

 tail 102; bill 19 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet and bill black." 



This bird, which can be considered as typical, agrees perfectly 

 with Sclater's original description, having the top of the head black 

 etc. Two specimens from the neighbourhood of Quito (Ecuadoi') 

 in our Museum have a somewhat shorter, stouter bill, and the 

 crown dark cinereous, merely mottled with blackish on the forehead 

 and above the white eyebrow. However, they may be not 

 quite adult. 



>S'. atripennis is known only from the highlands of Colombia 

 and Ecuador. 



* Saltator elcjans Tschudi; Arch. f. Naturg. 10, i. p. 288 (1841.— Peru). 



