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194. Deconychura longicauda (Pelz.). 
Dendrocincla longicauda Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras, i. p. 60 (1867.—Borba ; Marabitanas and Barra, 
Rio Negro). 
Deconychura longicauda Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. pp. 367, 368 (Borba). 
No. 162. $ ad., Calama, 3. vii. 1907. “Tris dark brown, feet blaish black, 
bill black, below greyish.”—Wing 97 ; tail 94; bill 234 mm. 
Slightly smaller than Pelzeln’s original examples in the Vienna Museum, bat 
perfectly similar in coloration. The latter measure as follows :— 
Wing. Tail. Bill. 
1, No. 15907. ¢ ad., Borba, December 29,1829. Type 
of species . : E : = 807 107 27 mm. 
2. No. 15906. ¢ ad., Barra, May 6, 1833 ; eee iii 113 -S iaagire 
3. No. 15904. ¢ ad., Marabitanas, February 28, 1831. 104 102 264 ,, 
4, No. 15905. —ad., Barra, May 4, 1833. : eee 4). 106 a 
{195. Dendrocincla fuliginosa (Vieill.). 
Dendrocopus fuliginosus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. xxvi. p. 117 (1818.—ex Levaillant: Cayenne); cf 
Ménégaux & Hellmayr, Mém. Soc. d’ Hist. Nat. Autun xix. 1906. p. 119 (crit.). 
Dendrocincla fumigata Pelzeln, l.c. p. 42 (Borba), 
D. fuliginosa Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 368 (Humaytha). 
Humaytha (Hoffmanns), Borba (Natterer). 
I have examined Natterer’s two skins from Borba, and found them to agree 
with others from Cayenne (cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905. p. 280). Mr. Oberholser * 
gives the range of D. fuliginosa as: “ Lower Amazonia, south to Bahia, north 
to British Guiana”; but I suppose “ Bahia” is a pen-slip for Para, this being 
the most southerly established locality on the Brazilian east coast. I have seen 
specimens from the following localities: Cayenne, French Guiana (the type in the 
Paris Museum ; a second example in Vienna); Roraima, R. Rupununi (H. Whitely ; 
Mas. Berlepsch and Tring); Mandos (Natterer); Diamantina, Tapajéz (topotype of 
D. rufo-olivacea Ridgw.: U.S. Mus. Wash.); Par& (Natterer, Wallace, Steere, 
Robert, etc.); Borba (Natterer); Humaytha (Hoffmanns). There is considerable 
individual variation in the series, but 1 am unable to make ont any geographical 
races. | 
196. Dendrocincla merula (Licht.). 
Dendrocolaptes Merula Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Akad. Berlin a, d. Jahren 1818-19. p. 208 (1820.— 
Cayenne: Mus, Berlin). 
Dendrocincla merula Pelzeln, i.c. p. 42 (Borba, Salto Theotonio) ; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 369 
(Humaytha). 
Nos. 290, 303. d ad., d imm., Calama, 29, 30. vii. 1907.—Wing 104; tail 
87, 89; bill 26 mm. 
Nos. 63, 233. ¢? ad., Calama, 17. vi., 15. vii. 1907—W ing 99, 100; tail 82 ; 
bill 24 mm, 
“ Tris grey or greyish brows, feet plumbeous, bill black, below grey.” 
The three adult birds have the lower mandible except the tomiae pale yellow, 
while in the immature male it is mainly dusky. The Calama series is decidedly 
larger and darker than a single unsexed Cayenne specimen (S. Laurent-du-Maroni, 
Le Moult coll, Munich Museum). However, several examples from Pard, Caura, 
* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philad. 1904. p. 453, 
