BIRDS OF WESTERN COLOMBIA. 1199 



In Western Ecuador, its place is taken by C. squamatus Salv.*, 

 which differs, in both sexes, in lacking the scarlet patch on the 

 flanks, in possessing a large white patch on the outer web of the 

 tertiaries, and in having the forehead orange-red instead of 

 black. The female, too, has the feathers of the back and the 

 upper wing- coverts narrowly edged with white. The hithei'to 

 undescribed male has — like that of C. 'maculicoronaUis — the 

 cheeks, throat and foreneck white, the chest light safFron-yellow, 

 and the upper parts uniform glossy black, but there are hardly 

 any black streaks on the flanks. I have examined a good series 

 from Carondelet (province Esmeraldas) and Santo Domingo, 

 W. Ecuador. 



175. Capito bourcierii salvini Shelley. 



[^Micropogon Bourcierii Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. viii. p. 179 

 (1845 — ad Bogotaui ; descr. c?).] 



Capito salvini Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 119 (1891. — • 

 " Central America, from Panama to Costa Rica," no type 

 specified!); Dalmas, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxv. 1900, p. 180, 

 note (Las Cruces, Western Cordillera above Buenaventura, 

 6000 ft.). 



C. hourcieri (nee Lafresnaye) Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 538 (Frontino, Antioquia). 



No. 2806. cJ ad. Loma Hermosa, Rio Jamaraya, 4150 ft., 

 23.X.09.— Wing 74 ; tail 52 ; bill 20 mm. 



Nos. 2738, 2810. c? c? ad. Pueblo Rico, 5200 ft.: 7.ix., 

 25.X.09.— Wing 76, 73; tail 52 ; bill 20, 19^ mm. 



Nos. 2739, — . $ ad., $ imm. Pueblo Rico: 7.ix., Nov. 09.— 

 Wing 74 ; tail 50, 51 ; bill 20, 19 mm. 



Nos. 2808, 3774. $ $ ad. Loma Hermosa: 23.X.09; Siato, 

 5200 ft., 25.ix.09.— Wing 71 ; tail 49, 47 ; bill 19 mm. 



" Iris dark red, feet greyish green ( c? ) or blue-grey ( $ ), bill 

 greenish yellow or yellow." 



As already pointed out by Couiit Dalmas (J. c.) the birds from 

 W. Colombia are referable to C. h. salvini. Compared with 

 a good number from Costa Rica and Chiriqui the specimens from 

 Chocd are slightly larger on the average, but in coloration they are 

 nearly similar. The males have the throat dark crimson which 

 gradually passes into the deep orange of the chest, while, in the 

 females, the broad black frontal band is immediately followed by 

 the golden olive of the crown, without the least trace of the pale 

 blue cross-band, so conspicuous a feature in C. h. bourcierii $ , of 

 the Eastern Cordillera (Bogota). 



Count Dalmas (I.e. pp. 179-180) most correctly explained the 

 distinguishing characters of the three races of this group, and I 

 quite agree with him that the West Ecuadorian birds constitute 



* Ibis, 1876, p. 494, pi. xiv. (= ?; Santa Rita) ; Goodfellow, Ibis, 1902, p. 218 

 (Santo Domingo). 



