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Wallace, and others have met with it. Schwanda forwarded a good series from 
Miritiba, Maranhao, to the Munich Museum. Miss Snethlage found it at Arumathena, 
R. Tocantins,* and the late Mr. Hoffmanns obtained an adult male near Itaittba, 
R. Tapajéz.+ The great Austrian naturalist J. Natterer secured specimens at 
Borba, on the right bank of the Madeira, as well as at Forte do Principe da 
Beira and near the city of Mattogrosso, on the Rio Guaporé. ] 
349. Pteroglossus humboldti Wagl. 
Pteroglossus Humboldti Wagler, Syst. Ar. Genus Pteroglossus, sp, 4 (1827,—“ Brasilia””—Mus. 
Monac.—deser. ¢ ad.). 
No. 823. do ad., Calama, 3. viii. 1907.—Wing 127; tail 155; bill 95 mm. 
“Tris red, feet green, upper mandible yellow, culminal stripe, narrow basal 
line and teeth black, lower mandible black excepting the yellow basal lamella.” 
In coloration this bird is practically identical with Wagler’s type in the Munich 
Museum, but slightly smaller (type: wing 132; tail 157; bill 104 mm.). From 
P. inscriptus the two specimens differ in larger sizet and much longer bill, with 
the lower mandible almost wholly black. It is very strange to find P. humboldti 
in the same region where Natterer had met with P. inscriptus, for we had always 
looked upon them as geographical representatives. P. humboldti is widely dis- 
tributed in Upper Amazonia from Eastern Ecuador down to Peru and W. Brazil 
(Rio Purtis, ete.). Calama is the most easterly locality as yet on record. 
390. Pteroglossus beauharnaesii Wag]. 
Pteroglossus Beauharnaesii Wagler, Isis 1832. p. 280 (1832.—“ Brasilia, prov. Pard”—type now in 
Munich Museum) ; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 399 (Humaytha), 
Nos. 461, 464. 29 ad., Calama, 26. viii, 1907.—Wing 140, 142; tail 166; 
bill 109, 97 mm. 
Nos. 582, 590. ?9 ad, Jamarysinho, 22, 25. ix, 1907.—Wing 146, 150; 
tail 175, 177; bill 108 mm. 
“Tris dark red or brownish red, feet greenish, bill: upper mandible red and 
pale green, lower one dingy white, tip of both clear yellowish red. Bare space 
round the eye pale blue.” 
The specimens differ from the type and other Upper Amazonian skins by the 
brown spots on the cheeks and throat being absent or but faintly indicated. How- 
ever, this may be an individual character. 
(351. Selenidera maculirostris gouldii (Natt.). 
[Pteroglossus maculirostris Lichtenstein, Verz, Dubl. Berliner Mus, p. 7 (1823.—Brasil), ] 
P. Gouldii Natterer, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. v. 1837. p. 44 (1837.—Para in Brazil) ; Pelzeln, /.c. 
p. 238 (Borba). 
Right bank: Borba (Natterer). 
As already noticed by Pelzeln, the two specimens obtained in the vicinity of 
Borba have slightly longer bills and the black blotch at the base of the upper 
mandible more restricted than typical Para birds. The difference should be con- 
firmed by additional material. 
* Journ. f. Ornith, 1908, p. 536. t Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 26. 
{ Measurements of P. inseriptus :— 
Three adult males . Wing 114—120; tail 134—137; bill 80—82 mm, 
Five adult females . » 110—117; ,, 125—135; ,, 65—75 
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