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(1598) Brachygalba fulviventris fulviventris Scl. 

 Brachygalha fidviventria Scl., Cat. Bds. B. M., XIX, 1891, p. 172 (Bogotd.). 



Found only in the Tropical Zone at the eastern base of the Eastern 

 Andes, and apparently north of the Amazonian region in which it is replaced 

 by B. /. caquetoe, described below. 



Buena Vista, 3; Villavicencio, 5. 



(1598a) Brachygalba fulviventris caquetse subsp. nov. 



Char, subsp. — Most closely resembling Brachygalba fulviventris fulviventris Scl., 

 the belly varying from white washed with ochraceous-buff to uniform ochraeeous- 

 tawny, but differing irom fulviventris in having the crown tipped with pale ochraceous- 

 buff to ochraceous-tawny, the nuchal region and foreback more rufesoent, the lower 

 back, rump and upper tail-coverts blacker, in some specimens shining greenish black 

 sharply defined from the brownish anterior parts; the inner wing-quills blacker and 

 with little or no brownish; the anterior underparts averaging more rufescent. 



Type.— No. 116080, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., cf, La Morelia (alt. 600 ft.) Rio 

 Bodoquera, Caquetd, Colombia, July 16, 1912; \,. E. Miller. 



Inhabits the Tropical Zone at the eastern base of the Eastern Andes 

 from Amazonian Colombia southward at least to Ecuador; eastern limits 

 unknown. 



Our series of twenty specimens of Brachygalba fulviventris from the Tropi- 

 cal Zone, at the eastern base of the Eastern Andes, clearly represents two 

 forms of which eight specimens from Villavicencio and Buena Vista belong 

 to one, and twelve from La Morelia and Florencia to the other. Sclater 

 based his Brachygalba fulviventris (Cat. Bds. B. M., XIX, 1891, p. 172) on 

 a 'Bogota' specimen and, since Buena Vista and Villavicencio are in the 

 heart of the eastern Bogota region, while few if any 'Bogota' skins appear 

 to have come from the vicinity of La Morelia and Florencia, where, indeed 

 Miller secm-ed numbers of species, not before recorded from Colombia, 

 there is reason to believe that Sclater's name is properly applicable to the 

 Buena Vista and Villavicencio form. Furthermore, the figure of Sclater's 

 type (Mon. Jacamars and Puff-Birds, pi. xi, left hand figure) agrees with 

 this form rather than with that from the Caqueta region. I have therefore 

 described the latter as ntew. Its characters, as the preceding diagnosis in- 

 dicates, are pronounced, but it is not improbable that the differences shown 

 by my series may be in part seasonal, since the Caqueta birds, taken in 

 July, appear to be in fresher plumage than those from Buena Vista and 

 Villavicencio, which were taken in March and April. 



Galbula (Brachygalba) inornata Scl. (Jard. Cont. Orn., 1852, p. 32) from an 



