BIRDS OF WESTERN COLOMBIA. 1193 



" Iris dark brown, feet and bill black." 



These three as well as another adult male from the Cauca 

 River (Batty coll,) in the Munich Museum difier from a very 

 large series of skins obtained in Cayenne, Venezuela (Caura), 

 Brazil, etc., in having the under tail-coverts wholly unspotted 

 white or very faintly spotted with bronze-green. It shoidd be 

 mentioned, however, that this character is likewise found in two 

 specimens from the island of Tobago. 



In the absence of typical examples from Western Peru, I 

 cannot say whether the birds from Western Colombia should not 

 be referred to C a. cabanisii Tsch. * I notice, however, that 

 the white bars on the quills are by no means bi'oader than in 

 tj'pical C. a. americana, which is said to be the case in the 

 Peruvian form. 



163. Trogon massexa Gould. 



Trogon massena Gould, Monogr. Trogon. 1st ed. pi. 16 (1838. — 

 Guatemala); Cassin, Proc. Acad. IST. Sci. Philad. 1860, p. 135 

 (Truando ; delta of the Atrato). 



IS'o. 2008. c^ ad. K^oanama, 100 ft., 26.viii.08.— Wing 170; 

 tail 168 ; bill 24 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet brownish yellow, bill orange-yellow." 



Compared with others from Central America, this bird is 

 smaller, and has the middle pair of rectrices w'ashed with dull 

 bluish instead of clear bronze-green. With a single specimen at 

 hand it is, of course, impossible to judge the value of these 

 variations. In other respects the male from Noanama is a 

 typical massena, there being not the least trace of a white 

 breast-band, etc. 



Noanama is the most southerly locality yet known for 7\ 

 massena. Curiously enough, the late T. K. Salmon obtained 

 the nearly allied T. 77ielanu7'us macrourus Gould in the State 

 of Antioquia f, provided that his specimens have been correctly 

 detei-mined. 



164. Urospatha martii semirufa Scl. 



[Frmiites martii Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 64, pi, Ix. (1824 — "in 

 sylvis Parae").] 



Moynotus semirufa Sclater, Rev, Mag. Zool, (2) v. p, 489 

 (1853 — part,: Santa Marta, IVew Grenada +). 



Momotus Martii (nee Spix) Cassin, Proc, Acad, N. Sci. Philad, 

 1860, p. 136 (River Nercua), 



Urospatha martii Sclater & Salvin, P, Z. S. 1879, p, 534 

 (Remedios, Neche). 



* Aleedo Cabanisii Tschudi, Fauna Peru., Aves, p. 253 (1841-45. — " environs of 

 Lima"). 



f T. macrurus Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 535 (Remedios, Neche). 



X Although one of the localities, Rio .Javarri (W. Brazil), refers to typical Z7. m. 

 martii, Sclater's description is evidently taken from the Santa Marta specimen. 

 Cfr. the words : '' cauda spatulata." 



