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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 535 336. TROGON ATRICOLLIS (Vieill.) ; Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. ii. pi. xiv. Remedios, Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) 337. TROGON MERIDIONALIS, SW. ; Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. ii. pi. xvii. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Iris dark. Stomach contained fruit. 338. TROGON CHIONURUS, Scl. et Salv.; Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. ii. pi. xxii. Remedios, Neche. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Iris dark. Eggs (no. 157) white: axis 1*13, diam. *95. "Buildsin the holes of palm trees, and lays two white eggs."- T.K.S. 339. T R O G O N MACRURUS, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. ii. pi. xxx. Remedios, Neche. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) Iris dark. Stomach contained fruit. 340. P H A R O M A C R U S FULGIDUS (Gould) ; Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. ii. pi. iii. Concordia, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Stomach contained fruit. 341. PHAROMACRUS AURICEPS (Gould) ; Mon. Trog. ed. ii. pi. iv. Concordia, Frontino, Sta. Elena. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Iris dark. Stomach contained fruit. Eggs (no. 127) greenish blue : axis 1*45, diam. 1*17. " Lays two eggs in holes in trees, making no nest."-T. K. S. Fam. GALBULID^E. 342. GALBULA RUFICAUDA, CUV. ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 266. Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) 343. BRACHYGALBA SALMONI, sp. nov. jEneo-viridis,pilei plumis fusco adumbratis, gutture et remigibus ad basin albis, ventre medio et crisso castaneis; rostro nigro; pedibus fuscis. Long. tot. 7*2, alee 2*8, caudee 2*3, rostri rictu 1*8. Hab. Neche in Statu Antioquise, reipubl. Columbians (Salmon). Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G. Obs. Sp. a B. goeringi, cui affinis, pileo dorso concolori nee fusco distinguenda. Mr. Salmon obtained on the Neche two examples of what appears to be a new species of the black-billed section of Brachygalba. They are marked eS and § ; but both are immature. The male would, no doubt, have the middle of the belly white as in B. goeringi, nobis1, from which the new species may be at once distinguished by its » P.Z. S. 1869, p. 243, pi. xviii. |