60 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Trogonidae. 

 131. Trogonurus curucui curucui (Linne). 

 Two adults, cf and 9 , Vicinity of Paramaribo, May. 



132. Trogon strigilatus strigilatus (Linne). 



Twenty-nine specimens, both sexes. Vicinity of Paramaribo, and 

 Lelydorp, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, 

 and December. 



133. Chrysotrogon violaceus violaceus (Gmelin). 



Three specimens, cf cf and 9., Vicinity of Paramaribo, May and 

 July. 



134. CuRUCUJUS melanurus melanurus (Swainson). 

 • One adult cf , Rijsdijkweg, April 



MiCROPODIDAE. 



135. Chaetura brachyura brachyura Jardine. 



Two adults, cf and 9 , Vicinity of Paramaribo, March. 



We have not seen specimens from Tobago, but Hellmayr (Nov. zooL, 

 1906, 13, p. 37) who had a large series from Surinam, states that birds 

 from Surinam, Trinidad, and Tobago are absolutely identical. 



Five specimens from St. Vincent, in the M. C. Z., certainly represent 

 a different race, for which we propose the name 



135a. Chaetura brachyura praevelox, subsp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. E. A. & O. Bangs Coll. 12,817. Adult cf. 

 Chateaubelair, St. Vincent, 14 October, 1903. Austin H. Clark. 

 Characters. — Similar to C. b. brachyura Jard., and of same size, 



