1170 MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON THE 



Nos. 2082, 2145, 2178. J c? ad. Sipi : 12.ix, 2, 12.X.08.— 

 Wing 67-69 ; tail 44^-47 ; bill 18 mm. 



No. 2234. S ad. Rio Cajon : 3. xi. 08.— Wing 68 ; tail 45 ; 

 bill 18 mm. 



No. 2438. c? ad. Novita : 28.xii.08.— Wing 69 ; tail 43| ; bill 

 19 mm. 



Nos. 2017, 2018, 2038. 2 $. Noanama: 26, 31.viii.08.— 

 Wing 63 ; tail 40-42^ ; bill 17^-18 mm. 



Nos. 2179, 235.3. $ ad., c? juv. Sipi: 12.X.08; Novita: 

 30.xi.08.— Wing 63, 66 ; tail 42, 44 ; bill 18, 19 mm. 



" Iris dark red, feet grey, bill black." 



When discussing the status of this species and its northern 

 limits I alluded to the paler, less rufescent brown coloration of the 

 specimens from Neche, Northern Colombia, in the British Museum 

 (cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 342), and two years later Mr. Ridgway 

 separated two similar skins from Turbo under the name of 

 ill. cassini*. The present series, however, shows considerable 

 variation in the colour of the back. Six of the specimens have 

 the back of exactly the same deep rufous or Vandyke- brown shade 

 as a large series from N.W. Ecuador, while the four remaining 

 ones are somewhat lighter, more mars-brown above, like the two 

 examples from Neche, Antioquia. Two adult males and one 

 female obtained by Mr. Rosenberg on the Rio Dagua in 1895, 

 agree again with the types from Paramba. 



Neither is there any constant difference in the coloration of the 

 head and vinderparts. Four males — two from Paramba, one from 

 Sipi, one from Novita — are decidedly slaty blackish, while the 

 majority of the skins, both from W. Ecuador and from Choco, 

 have the chest and belly paler, slate-grey. 



Therefor'e, I cannot admit M. cassini as a valid form unless 

 the Turbo birds be distinguished by other characters than those 

 given in the original description. In addition to the above ten 

 specimens, the Munich Museum possesses seven males and four 

 females from N.W. Ecuador ; and I have examined ten more 

 from W. Ecuador, three from the Rio Dagua, in the Tring 

 Museum, and the couple from Neche in London. 



M. e. maculifer, as understoood by me, is another Pacific 

 type, its range being limited to the forest districts of Western 

 Ecuador and Colombia, 



129. Anoplops bicolor dagu^ Hellm. 



\Pithys hicolor Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y. viii. p. 6 

 (May 1863. — Panama Railway).] 



Gymnopithys hicolor dagucB Hellmayr, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 83 

 (1906. — El Paillon near Buenaventura, Choco, W. Colombia ; type 

 in Tring Mus.). 



* Mr. Ridpjway also mentions a female from Cascajal, Code (Panama), as 

 belonging to tliis form. There must, however, be some mistake with regard to the 

 locality, since three adult males from that place in the Tring Museum are clcarlj' 

 referable to M. exsril exsiil. Heyde's localities are not always trustworthy, and, as 

 he also got manj'^ specimens from Western Colombia (N(5vita etc.), an error in 

 labelling the l)ird might have occurred. 



