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important points from P. y. yaruqui of Western Ecuador. The 

 males may be distinguished by their shorter bill ; much broader 

 and darker, deep ochreous-buft' postocular and malar streaks ; and 

 by having the pale smoke-grey median stripe of the throat and 

 foreneck much wider and confluent with the smoke-grey abdomen, 

 which is but slightly spotted with metallic green on the flanks ; 

 whereas in P. y. yaruqui the under surface is mainly dark metallic 

 green, with the abdomen and a short stripe along the middle of 

 the throat sooty blackish. The Choco birds have, too, the base 

 of the outer web of the rectrices decidedly washed with greenish. 

 The females are even more different from the Ecuadorian yartiqui. 

 The under surface is light mouse-grey, the sides of the foreneck 

 and breast being but sparingly mottled with metallic green, and 

 the pale median stripe along the throat, foreneck, and chest is 

 conspicuously mixed with whitish. The deep ochreous-buff post- 

 ocular stripe is much broader, the white tip to the central rectrices 

 more extended, but less sharply defined than in the females of 

 P. y. yaruqin. In the females of both races, the malar streak is 

 white, anteriorly tinged with buff. 



Mons. Simon, of Paris, to whom I have submitted our series, 

 agrees to the distinctness of the Colombian race. 



P. y. sancti-johannis replaces the typical form in the tropical 

 lowlands of West Colombia (from the Truando to Buenaventura), 



138. Ph^thornis syrmatophorus syrmatophorus Gould. 



Phaethornis syrmatophorus Gould, Oontrib. to Ornith. 1851, 

 p. 139 (1851. — "Interior of Quito, in Ecuador," W.Jameson 

 coll.). 



P. syrmatophorus Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 528 

 (Santa Elena, Medellin, Antioquia) ; Simon & Dalmas, Ornis, 

 xi. 1901, p. 217 (La Tigra, Las Cruces, Western Cordillera). 



P. berlepschi E. & CI. Hartert, Nov. Zool. i. p. 56 (1894.— Rio 

 Pescado, W. Ecuador). 



No. 3782. d imm. La Selva, Rio Jamaraya, 4600 ft., 2.x.09.~ 

 Wing 62 ; tail 75 ; bill 41 mm. 



" Iris black, feet brown, maxilla black, mandible scarlet with 

 black tip." 



This bird, as well as Salmon's skins from Medellin and Santa 

 Elena in the British Museum, agrees with examples from Western 

 Ecuador upon which Hartert's P. berle^yschi was based. I regret to 

 say, however, that this name is a synonym of P. s. syrmatojihorus 

 while the eastern form has to bear the subspecific term columhianus 

 Boucard*, as already pointed out by Salvadori & Festa f. Gould 

 established the species upon specimens obtained by Prof. Jameson. 

 There are three skins from this source in the Gould Collection 

 (now in the British Museum) : one, marked " Napo— Jameson," 



* Thaetlwrnis columhianus Boncard, 'The Hamming Bird,' i. p. 17 (1891.^ 

 Bogota ; tj'pe in Paris Museum examined). ^ 



t Phaethornis syrmatophorus Salvadori & Festa, Boll. Mas. Zool. loriuo, xv, 

 no. 368, 1900; p. 3'(Gualea, W. Ecuador). 



