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MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON THE 



a quite distinct forio, immediately recognizable by the crimson 

 of the throat and foreneck being abruptly contrasted with the 

 clear sulphur-yellow belly without any orange tinge. His name 

 C. shelleyi * is, however, antedated by C cequatorialis Salvad. & 

 Festaf by several months. Of this distinct form I have 

 examined, besides the type actually at Tring, two fine adult 

 males from Quito and Gualea, in the Munich Museum, and two 

 males in poor condition, from Nanegal and Esmei^aldas, respectively, 

 in the British Museum collection. The original locality " Rio 

 Napo " is ei'i'oneous, the type being a skin of the well-known 

 Quito form. 



The range of the three races known to me is as follows : — 



(«) C. h. bourcierii Lafr. Eastern Cordillera of Colombia 

 (Bogota coll.), and Eastern Ecuador. 



(b) C. b. salvlni Shelley. Costa Rica, Chiriqui and A^^estern 



Cordillei'a of Colombia. 



(c) C. b. ceqaatorialis Salvad. &, Festa. Western Ecuador : 



Intac, Ohimbo, Pallatanga, Nanegal, Esmei'aldas, etc. 



[176. Semnornts RAMrnASTiKus Jard. 



Tetragonops ramphastinus Jardine, New Edinburgh Philos. 

 Journ. (n. s.) ii. p. 404 (Oct. 1855. — " Eastern Cordillera between 

 Quito and the mountain Cayambe," N. Ecuador). 



No. 87. S ad. La Tigra, W. Cordillera, 5700 ft., 13.iv.,1899. 

 E.- Andre coll.— Wing 110 ; tail 81 ; bill 22 mm. 



"Iris red, feet olive-yellow, bill yellow, Avith a dusky spot 

 towards the tip." 



This bird agrees perfectly with specimens in the Munich 

 Museum fi'om the neighbourhood of Quito. 



So far as I know the species has not previously been recorded 

 from Colombia.] 



177. Rampiiastos swainsonii Gould. 



Rhamphastos /Sivainsonii Gould, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 69 (Sept, 

 1833 — "in montosis Columbia?.") 



Ramplmstos tocard (nee Vieillot) Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 537 (Concordia, Medellin, Remedios). 



R. tocarJus Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 1860, p. 136 

 (River Nercua). 



No. 2000. $ ad. Noanama (100 ft.), 22.viii.08.— W^ing 230 ; 

 tail 170; bill 166 mm. 



" Iris dark green ; feet blue ; base of maxilla below blackish, 

 diagonal line dark red, remainder yellow ; mandible dark red, 

 apical third black with an oblong yellow patch near the tij?." 



This bird is typical siocdnsonii, having the basal j)ortion of both 

 mandibles (in skin) rich salmon colour, while in the allied 



* Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxv. p. 179 (Nov. 1900. — " Kio Napo "— errore!) 

 t Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, xv. no. 368, p. 22 (Feb. 1900.— Intac, W. Ecuador). 



