1106 MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON TUE 



No. 2033, c? acl. Noanama (100 ft.), 28.viii.08. Type of 

 species. — Wing 81 ; tail 66 ; bill 28 mm. 



Nos. 2703, 2711. J $ ad. Tado (230 ft.), 8, 16.vi.09.— Wing 

 81, 80; tail 66; bill 28, 27 mm. 



" Ii'is red or brown, feet grey, bill black." 



Adult (sexes alike). Ui^per part of the head and nape dark 

 ashy ; back and upper wing-coverts dark sepia-brown, each 

 feather with a distinct, pale riifescent apical margin ; npper tail- 

 coverts with I'ather brighter rufeacent cross-bands and edges ; 

 remiges and rectiices dusky, narrowly fringed with rufescent-bulf 

 along the outer M^eb. Narrow frontal edge and broad super- 

 ciliaries, reaching as far as the posterior angle of the eye, soiled 

 white ; lores ashy black ; cheeks, eax-coverts, and sides of the 

 neck dark ashy, some of the feathers edged with pale greyish. 

 Malar region, chin, and throat white ; chest dull sooty black, 

 most of the feathers showing, on their concealed basal portion, 

 a white mesial spot or streak, only to be seen when the feathers 

 are raised ; rest of the belly white, washed with ochreous-bufl' 

 and marked with coarse blackish spots or transverse bands ; under 

 tail-coverts uniform bufi\ Axillaries and under wing-coverts deep 

 buff, mixed with blackish ; inner web of remiges broadly edged 

 with bufi' on its basal half. 



This new Pufi'-bird is not very nearly related to any other 

 member of the genus. In proportions and style of coloration 

 (such as the rufescent cross-bands on the upper parts, buff 

 a,xilla,ries, under wing-coverts and quill-lining, etc.) it is not un- 

 like B. macrodactylus Spix from Amazonia; but the ashy cap, 

 the much broader blackish breast-band, the coarse spotting of the 

 belly, etc., as well as the much larger size, serve to distinguish it 

 at a glance. 



The three specimens sent by Mr. Palmer are perfectly alike, 

 the female being but veiy slightly smallei-. 



B. noclnamce is, as yet, known only from the valley of the San 

 Juan lliver in Western Colombia. 



170. Malacoptila pakamensis poliopis Scl. 



[Malacoptila Fcmamensts Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. x. p. 79 

 (1847.— Panama).] 



Malacoptila poliopis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 86, pi. viii. 

 (1862.— Esmeraldas, N.W. Ecuador, descr. $ ). 



M. 2'>anccmensis (nee Lafr.) Oassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 

 1860, p. 134 (Rio Truando). 



Nos. 2085, 2437, 2520. ^ d ad. Sipi (150 ft.), 12.ix. ; Novita 

 (150 ft.), 26.xii.08; El Tigre (320 ft.), 9.ii.09.— Wing* 88-90 ; 

 tail 75-78 ; bill 29 mm. 



Nos. 2084, 2593. 2 2 ad. Sipi (150 ft.), 12.ix.08 ; Condoto 

 (150 ft.), 12.iv.09.— Wing 86-88 ; tail 75, 79 ; bill 29 mm. 

 ' Iris red, feet grey, maxilla black, mandible yellowish grey."' 



The series agrees perfectly with topotypical examples from the 



