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underparts olive-green, lighter and more yellowish than the 

 back; under tail-coverts bright yellow. Axillaries dusky 

 tipped with olive-green ; under wing-coverts greyish-white. 

 Iris brown ; feet dark brown ; upper mandible black, lower 

 yellow. Culmen 14 mm. ; wing 93 ; tail 60. 



Type in the Zoological Museum of Munich. No. 3787. 

 $ . Tatama Mountain, Choco, W. Colombia, 6700 feet, 

 8. x. 09. M. G. Palmer coll. 



Obs. This species is nearly allied to B. edivardsi, but is 

 recognized at a glance by the coloration of the sides of the 

 head, which, in the latter bird, are uniform pale blue. 



BUTHRAUPIS MELANOCHLAMYS, Sp. n. 



Adult female. Head and back, interscapular feathers, and 

 sides of the breast deep black, with a slight silky gloss. 

 Lower rump and upper tail-coverts rather dull indigo-blue 

 (Valette's ' Code des Couleurs/ no. 417). Lesser and median 

 upper wing-coverts bright indigo-blue (in shade between 

 nos. 411 and 412 of Yalette's Code), forming a large light 

 blue patch; greater series dusky, exteriorly edged with dull 

 bluish; primary-coverts, remiges, and rectrices blackish, 

 narrowly fringed with dull bluish along the outer web. 

 Throat and sides of breast deep black ; flanks duller and 

 inclining to blackish slate-colour ; rest of the underparts 

 bright yellow, deeper and more orange on the middle of the 

 chest. Axillaries pale yellow; under wing-coverts yellowish- 

 white. Iris brown, bill and feet black. Culmen 15^ mm. ; 

 wing 90 ; tail 53. 



Type in the Zoological Museum of Munich. No. 2796. 

 $ . La Selva, Rio Jamaraya, San Juan, slopes of Colombia, 

 4800 feet, 15. x. 09. M. G. Palmer coll. 



Obs. This new species belongs to the group of B. arcai, 

 Scl. & Salv., from Veragua, and B. cceruleigularis, Cherrie, 

 from Costa Rica, but differs in the deep black colour of the 

 upperparts, head, and throat, and in the bright blue patch 

 on the upper wing-coverts. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant gave an account of the movements of 

 the Expedition sent by the British Ornithologists' Union to 



