BIRDS OF WESTERN COLOMBIA. 1195 



p. 536 (:Nreche) ; Berlepsch, Journ. f. Oniith. 1884, p, 315 

 (Bucaramanga). 



Nos. 2464, 2626. cS ad., c5 imm. Novita : 4.xii.08 ; Tado : 

 29.iv.09.— Wing 100; tail 83; bill 32^, 32 mm. 



Nos. 2318, 2359, 2464. $ $ ad., 1 § imm. Novita : 20.xi., 

 l.xii.08; Noanama : 12.i.09.— Wing 95-100; tail 80-84 ; bill 

 30-33 mm. 



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



Adults have the edges of the scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, etc., 

 pure white, while they are more or less tinged with bufi' in 

 immature birds ; the latter also show a slight huffish wash on the 

 lower flanks and under tail-coverts. 



Two skins from Chiriqui have the black portions of the 

 plumage faintly glossed with oil-green, while our Choco series, 

 as also a couplo from N.W. Ecuador, show a strong metallic blue 

 gloss. 



B. pectoralis ranges from Western Panama (Chii-iqui) south- 

 wards to ISr. W. Ecuador (province Esmeraldas *). It is exclusively 

 found in the hot, dense forests of the lowlands. 



168. BUCCO TECTUS SUBTECTUS Scl. 



yBucco tecttos Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl, p. 43 (1783— e.c 

 Daubenton, PI. Enl. 688. lig. 2 : Cayenne).] 



Bacco subtectics Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 296 (I860.— Esme- 

 raldas, KW. Ecuador); Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 536 

 (Neche). 



Nos. 2634, 2703. $ $ ad. Tado (230 ft.): 3.v., 12.vi.08.— 

 Wing 69 ; tail 56 ; bill 21, 22 mm. 



" Iris red, feet and bill black." 



This well-characterized race differs from B. t. tectus, of Cayenne, 

 Para, and Eastern Venezuela (Caui^a), in several important points : 

 The upper parts are of a much deeper, more glossy black ; the 

 white spots on the head ai"e confined to the forehead and 

 anterior crown ; the white cross-bar on the inner web of the 

 submedian pair of rectrices is either wholly absent or but faintly 

 indicated ; the black crescent of the foreneck is much narrower ; 

 the bill more slender. 



Birds from Panama have even loss white spotting about the 

 forehead than those from more southern localities, but otherwise 

 they do not differ. 



B. t. subtect'us has exactly the same range as the precediiig 

 species, occurring from Western Panama (Chiriqui) south to 

 N.W. Ecuador (province Esmeraldas). 



169. Bucco NOANAMiE Hellm. 



BiiCGO noanamce Hellmayr, Bull. B. 0. 0. xxv. p. 21 (1909. — 

 Noanama, W. Colombia). 



* There are two specimens in tlie Tring Mnsenm : (J ad. from Carondelet (60 ft.), 

 Oct. 16, 1900; ? ad. Bulan (160 ft.), Dec. 23, 1900, both seemed by Mr. G. 

 Flemmiug, one of Mr. Rosenberg's correspondents. 



