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Of the species described above I have before me no less 

 than twenty-six skins of the well-known Bogota make, picked 

 out from time to time from trade collections sent from 

 Colombia for millinery purposes. It is, therefore, apparently 

 not at all a rare species in the countries visited by the 

 Bogota collectors, but curiously enough has escaped notice by 

 naturalists, or else has been taken for C. flaveola, from which 

 it is distinguishable at a glance. In C. leucopkrys the super- 

 ciliary stride enlarges above the lores, and the nasal feathers, 

 and the region about the eye, are white, while in G. flaveola 

 these parts are of a clear yellow. The upper part of the throat 

 in G. leucophrys is more or less whitish, being of the same 

 yellow as the breast and abdomen in G. flaveola. The bill 

 is as large as in G. flaveola magnirostris (Hart.) from West 

 Ecuador, while typical birds of G. flaveola from Bahia have 

 much smaller bills, and shorter wings and tails. I have 

 also a Bogota skin of true G. flaveola magnirostris in my 

 collection. 



20. COTINGA SIMONI Sp. 11. 



G. G. ridgivayi Ridgw. dictae proxima sed colore gulae 

 abdoininisque medii obscuriore violaceo, fere violaceo-nigro, 

 colore corporis superioris coeruleo quoque obscuriore, pileo 

 obscure violaceo tincto, colore coeruleo in pectore superiore 

 magis extenso, mento extremo coeruleo nee gulae concolori, 

 alis longioribus, rostro longiore et crassiore necnon remige 

 tertia angustiore distinguenda. 



Foemina foeminae G. cayanae simillimaa foemina G.amabilis 

 Gld., dictae valde diversa. 



S â ad., al. 109-1KH, caud. 67-64^, culm. 16J-16Ì, tars. 

 19^ mm. 



Habitat : Colombia occidentalis meridionalis (S. José Rio 

 Dagua et Buenaventura). 



Typus : in Mus. H. v. B. : S ad. S. José, Dagua, 6th 

 December, 1896. [Gustav Hopke leg.] 



The bird described above, and named in honour of the 

 excellent entomologist and trochilidist, M. Eugène Simon, 

 of Paris, is evidently the southern representative of the 

 Gotinga ridgwayi of Costa Rica. The male of G. simoni differs 

 from the male of G. ridgivayi in the. following particulars : 



