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under surface of body olive-green, strongl}' suffused (comparatively) 
with yellowish ; cap l)lue ; forehead reddish ; bill, legs and feet black. 
l^LAOK-NT.CKF.r) EuPHOMA (E ni gricolUs) . A brilliant, and beauti- 
ful species, which is known to British aviculture, several specimens 
have reached the London Zoological Gardens, through the generosity 
of Captain Pain, from one of which my description is taken; it had 
however appeared previously, as long ago as 1866, but it is still quite 
rare. According to the catalogue of the British Museum they have a 
fairly wide range — ■"' South America from Columbia to Paraguay and 
Central Peru. Specimens from Western Ecuador fsub species p('/2'e/.?ii, 
V. Berlepsch) are of a paler, less orange, yellow on the rump and 
below " I am taking no note of this sub species as I do not consider it 
sufficiently distinct. 
In its cage at the Zoo this species was very attractive, feai-less, 
vivacious, of very handsome plumage, and its note very pleasing. 
Adult male : Upper surface, very rich purplish-black ; forehead, 
throat and sides of the head black ; cap and nape bright blue ; rump, 
and under surface of body, orange-yellow ; inner margins of wing- 
feathers, pale grey ; bill, blackish ; legs and feet, brownish. Total 
length, 4i inches, tail 1|. 
Female : Upper surface, olive-green ; rump, lighter olive-green ; 
forehead chestnut, separated from the blue cap by a narrower band 
of black ; under surface, olive-green, strongly suffused with yellowish 
which is most pronounced in the centre of abdomen ; bill, legs and 
feet, as male. 
Chestout-fronted Euphonia (E. elegantissima). A beautiful 
and distinct species, of which I have not seen a living specimen. It 
ranges over Southern and Central America, extending to Panama. 
Russ records the species (on the authority of A. von Frantzius) 
as occuring abundantly near San Jose in Costa Pica, where the Ijirds 
are caught and caged, mostly for sake of their song — they are found in 
clear spaces and upon withered trees, and were found to iced upon the 
fruit of a parasitical plant, very similar to mistletoe. 
This species has been imported to the continent ; both A. E. 
Hrehm and the late Dr. Russ have possessed living specimens, but I can- 
not trace any as having reached this country. 
Adult male . Upper surface, lustrous purplish-black ; frontal 
band (narrow) rich dark chestnut, separated from the blue cap by a 
black line ; cap and nape, bright blue ; throat black ; under surface 
of body, ruddy-orange ; inner margins of wing-feathers, white ; bill, 
black ; legs and feet brownish. Total length, 4| inches, tail, 1|. 
