ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 
By PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. 
VII. — ON A NEW SPECIES OF GALBULA. 
G. MELANOGENIA, Sclater. 
Since writing the Synopsis of the genus Galbula, p. 29 of this 
year’s Contributions, I have purchased from Mr. Leadbeater the only 
two examples of this new species that I have yet seen. They are 
6 and 2, and from their appearance, I have little doubt were pre- 
pared by no other hand than that of M. Delattre, but in what part 
of the vast continent of South America he collected them it is 
impossible to say. The nearest ally of the present bird is the 
Galbula ruficauda, from which it differs principally in having four 
instead of two medial rectrices wholly green, and the whole chin, 
both in $ and 2, nearly black, instead of pure white, whence I 
have called it melanogcnia. There are likewise no traces of that 
coppery gloss on the back and pectoral band which is always to bo 
found in the older species. Galbula maculicauda may be distin- 
guished from this species by the spots on the outer rectrices. 
6 Supril cum vitta pectorali aureo-viridis ; mento nigrescente ; 
gula alba ; ventre et 3 utrinque extimis rectricibus rufo-castaneis ; 
liarum 4 mediis omnino viridibus. 
2 Mari similis, sed gulii albescentc-rufa. 
Long, tota, 9 . o ; alae, 3.3; rostri, 2.0; cauda?, 4 . b. 
Habitat, S. A., locality uncertain. 
Eomlun, Kith April, 1JJ.V2. 
