GOULDIA tEQUATORIALIS, Berlepsch if Tacz.
Ecuador Thorn-tail.
Gouldia conversi tequatorialis, B e r lep sch & Tacz. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 8 8 3 , p. 5 67.
Count von B erlepsch and Dr. Taczanowski state that the specimens o f Gouldia conversi from Cliimbo in
Ecuador differed from those from Bogota in having the elongated plumelets in the centre o f the breast of
a fine blue colour, more or less intense, whereas the Colombian birds have these plumelets o f a bluish or
golden green. The wings are also shorter and the smaller upper tail-coverts have more o f a coppery
violet tin t; otherwise the two forms do not differ.
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