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equally broad malar streak white, tinged with buff on the 

 anterior part only; the underparts pale mouse-grey, the 

 median stripe on the fore-neck and chest conspicuously 

 edged with white, and the metallic-green colour much more 

 restricted ; the white tips to middle rectrices much longer ; 

 size smaller. Bill 37-40 mm. ; wing 58-59 : tail 59-63. 



Hab. The tropical lowlands along the Pacific Coast o£ 

 Western Colombia, from the River Truando south to 

 Buenaventura. 



Type in the Zoological Museum of Munich : no. 09.5807. 

 (^ ad. Condoto, Rio Condoto (tributary of the R. San 

 Juan), Choco, W. Colombia, 14. iv. 09. M. G. Palmer coll., 

 no. 2598. 



Obs. Pour males and three females were procured at 

 various localities in the San Juan district, in the autumn 

 of 1908 and April 1909, by Mr. M. G. Palmer, one of 

 Mr. Rosenberg's field-collectors. 



Phaethornis superciliosus muellebi, subsp. n. 



P. afinis moorei (erroi'e !), Hellraayr, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 37i 

 (1906) (S. Antonio do Prata, Para). 



Adult. Much like P. superciliosus moorei, Lawr., of Upper 

 Amazonia, but the median throat-stripe is more clearly 

 defined and lighter in colour, being whitish-buff instead of 

 bright buff ; the fore-neck and breast pale greyish (not buff) ; 

 the abdomen, as well as the edges of the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, decidedly paler buff. Bill, J* 38, ? 35-36^ mm. ; 

 wing, c? 60, ? 58 ; tail 64-69. 



Hab. North-eastern Bi'azil, State of Para : San Antonio 

 do Prata {Hoffmanns), Peixe-Boi (Milller), Ipitinga, on the 

 R. Acara (Milller). 



Type in the Zoological Museum of Munich: no. 10.1238. 

 ? fere ad. Peixe-Boi, near Para, 14. iv. 10. Collected by 

 Lorenz Miiller. 



Obs. I have already alluded to this form in my paper on 

 the Para collection made by the late W. Hoffmanns, but it 

 was not until recently that I obtained additional examples 

 which fully confirm the constancy of its characters. 



