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EuPHONIA FULVICRISSA OMISSA, SUDSp. n. 



Differs from E. f. fulvicrissa from Panama, Costa Rica, 

 and Veragua in having the upperside, sides of head, neck, 

 and throat metallic steel-blue, instead of bluish bottle- 

 green. 



Hab. Colombia (Noanama in Western Colombia and 

 Bogota collections). 



Type in the Tring Museum : $ ad. Native-made Bogota 

 skin. Ex coll. Comte de Dalmas. 



Obs. Mr. Hellmayr has already called attention to these 

 two forms (P. Z. S. 1911, vol. ii. p. 1J00) ; but he refrained 

 from naming one of them, as he could not examine the type, 

 which is preserved in the British Museum. There is no 

 doubt as to which form the type belongs, for it agrees 

 entirely with skins from Central America ; but there is 

 some doubt about the locality whence it came. Sclater, 

 in his original description, said that it came from " Santa 

 Marta in New Granada," and that it had been received 

 by Messrs. Verreaux from their collector at Santa Marta. 

 The label on the type gives only "New Granada" {i.e. 

 Colombia), and, as the localities on specimens bought from 

 Messrs. Verreaux are notoriously incorrect, it is quite 

 possible that the type came from Central America, especially 

 as recent collectors do not seem to have obtained examples 

 of Euphonia fulvicrissa in Santa Marta. 



E. f. omissa may be said to be intermediate between 

 E. f. fulvicrissa and E. f. purpurascens from W. Ecuador, 

 which has a deep purple upperside and much less white on 

 the lateral rectrices. 



Euphonia elegantissima Vincents, subsp. n. 



Differs from E. e. elegantissima from Mexico in that both 

 sexes have the crown of a deeper and rather more purplish- 

 blue. In the majority of specimens the forehead is also of 

 a lighter rufous and the wing is shorter : 65-68 mm. against 

 67-70 in adult males. 



Hab. Costa Rica and Chiriqui. 



