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P. obscura Pelz.,* from the Para district, is, as pointed out 3 pe lg we eee Fe 
Sclater,t quite distinct from P. viridis, and may be distinguished by the following 
characters. The bill is shorter, with the upper mandible deeper, stouter, and more 
strongly curved, and is of a blackish brown colour with but a few small light spots 
here and there. The feet are blackish (not pale greenish or yellowish green as in 
P. viridis). While in P. viridis the whole foreneck is covered with brilliant violet- 
blue feathers, there is just a faint purplish sheen to be seen in P. obscura. 
In the latter species the mantle, too, is much darker, chocolate-brown with 
scarcely any green, and the upper wing-coverts show but a few narrow 
apical bands of dull blue or green, while there are broad, metallic green and 
purplish blue tips in P. viridis. The Munich Museum is indebted to Miss Snethlage 
for a fine specimen of P. obscura. 
Until Mr. Hoffmanns procured his series the type discovered by Spix and the 
two females obtained by Natterer were, as far as I am aware, the only specimens of 
P. viridis existing in European Maseums. The species is with certainty only 
known from the right bank of the Rio Madeira (Cachoeira de Gaajaraguacu and 
Salto Theotonio—Natterer ; Maruins—Hoffmanns). Spix’s original locality Villa 
Nova (north bank of the Amazons, near the junction of the Rio Xingt) is quite 
unreliable, for the type-specimen had evidently been kept in confinement. 
Wallace’s record ¢ of P. viridis being found in the forests of Para refers, of course, 
to P. obscura. 
The series from Maruins has been divided between the Munich Museum and 
Count Berlepsch’s collection. : 
444, Harpiprion cayennensis (Gm.). 
Tantalus cayennensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. 652 (1789.—ex D’Aubenton, Pl. enl. 820: 
Cayenne). 
No. 110. o ad., Calama, 26. vi. 1907.—Wing 305 ; tail 155; bill 130 mm. 
No. 557.  ad., Jamarysinho, 17. ix. 1907.—Wing 295 ; tail 160 ; bill110 mm. 
Nos. 933, 1039. ¢ ad., d imm., Maruins, 19. vi., 19. vii. 1908.—Wing 285, 
276; tail 150; bill 118, 115 mm. 
“ Tris brown, feet light green, bill dark green or greenish dusky.” 
445. Ardea cocoi Linn. 
Aedes Cocoi Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii, 1. p. 237 (1766,—ex Brisson, etc. : “ Cayana”). 
No. 1033. ¢ imm., Maruins, 17. vii. 1908.—“ Iris yellow, feet black, bill dark 
grey, lower mandible yellow.” 
Widely distributed in South America. 
446. Agamia agami (Gm.). 
Ardea Agami Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 629 (1789,—ex Buffon & D’Aubenton, Pl. enl. 859; 
Cayenne) ; Pelzeln, /.c. p. 301 (Matogrosso, etc.). 
No. 1035. ? juv., Maruins, 19. vii. 1908.—* Iris yellow, feet grey, bill black, 
below greyish brown.” 
* Sitzungsber. math.-naturwiss Cl. Ahad. Wissensch. Wien xxiv. 1857. p. 373, 
¢ Ibis 1898. pp. 520-4. tab. xi. 
t Travels on the Amazons and Rio Negro 1853. p. 473. 
