1915.] Chapman, New Colombian Birds. 657 
from any one of eight specimens from the Bogoté and Quito regions. Of 
these eight specimens four (one from near Bogoté and three from near 
Quito) were collected within the past two years and their agreement with 
the older native-made skins from these regions indicates that the latter have 
not changed in color. The Quito specimens (all native-made) are said to 
have been taken west of that city (according to Goodfellow (Ibis, 1901, 
p. 464) and are not found to the eastward, but if this be true it is difficult 
to explain the occurrence at Loja, in southern Ecuador, of the West Andean 
race here described. Nevertheless a specimen collected at Loja by Richard- 
son has the flame-colored crest of the bird here named ignicapillus. 
Iridosornis dubusia ceruleoventris subsp. nov. 
Char. subsp.— Crest cadmium-orange, as in J. d. ignicapillus Chapm., but differing 
from that race and also from J. d. dubusia in having the ventral region and under 
tail-coverts dark blue of the same color as the belly, instead of chestnut-brown; and 
with no trace of chestnut on the under wing-coverts. 
Type.— No. 134364, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9 ad., Paramillo (12,500 ft.), northern 
end of Western Andes, Colombia, Jan. 24, 1915; Miller and Boyle. 
Range.— Temperate Zone at the northern end of the Western (and Central?) 
Andes, Colombia. 
Remarks.— This very strongly characterized race is based on comparison 
of two females from the type-locality with twenty-six specimens of J. d. 
dubusia and I. d. ignicapillus. One of them has several chestnut feathers 
about the vent but the under tail-coverts are dark indigo-blue with no trace 
of chestnut. On the other hand, none of the twenty-six specimens of du- 
_ busia and ignicapillus is without a chestnut crissum. 
The female of this species has been described as similar to the male but 
our excellent series shows that in the male the shining purple blue of the 
breast extends backward on to the flanks and abdomen, while in the female 
these parts are dull, dark, indigo-blue. 
It is possible that the record of Iridosornis dubusia from Sta. Elena (Scl. 
& Salv., P. Z..S., 1879, p. 500) may refer to this species since there is a pens 
faunal affinity between that region and the Paramillo. 
Cacicus uropygialis pacificus subsp. nov. 
Char. subsp.— Resembling Cacicus uropygialis microrhynchus (Sel. & Salv.) in 
general dimensions but with the bill of much the same size and shape as in C.u. 
uropygialis Lafr. 
