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 124. Veniliornis kirkii kirkii (Malli.j. 



r. {Oihn-;jwns) l.nlii Malherbc, lire. Zn„l . 184.',. p. 400 (Tobago). 



1 i, ( 'liaj^nanas, May; 1 S ad., Poiiite Gonrdc, Jaimarv ; 1 6 a.il., .Vri|ii>, 

 21.11111 Ct., May; 1 S jnv., and 1 ■»' ail., Caparo, April; ami I ¥ ad., liaveiitiilr, 

 Noveiiibcr. 



Tills series a,y;roes, in ucduratiou and si/.e, witli a fair luimber of skins IVoni 

 Tolia,i,'ci, while 3 ? ? from the Verieziielau coast (Caripe and 8au Esteban) are so 

 mnch smaller that I do not iiesilate to separate tlieiu as 



Veuiliornis kirkii coutinentalis nov. subs[i. 



Type in Mus. Trinir, ? ad., Caripe near Ciiinana, Venezuela, Jannary Is',t4. A. 

 Mocipierys coll.. No. 243 : wing, 83 ; tail GO ; bill, ISJ mm. 



Auotiier ? from the same locality (Mus. Tring) : wing, 82 ; tail, o(j ; 

 bill, 19 mm. 



1 ?, IS. Estelian, near Puerto ('abello (coll. Goeriug. — Mus. Brit.) : wing, 81 ; 

 tail, M ; bill, 18 mm. 



Measurements of T. kirkii kirkii (Malb.). 

 ~ SS ad. from Tobago . . Wing, 89—00 ; tail, .38—03 ; bill, 22 — 23J, mm. 

 3?? ad. „ ,, . . „ 88-80; „ 50—61; „ 2U— 23 „ 



ASS-m\. „ Trinidad. . „ 91—93; „ 00-03; „ 23—24 „ 

 2 ? ? ad. „ „ . . „ 01 ; „ 00-61 ; „ 20,1—22 „ 



125. Celeus elegaus leotaudi nom. nov. 



One ? ad., Valencia, March; one ? ad., (iaparo, May ; ? juv. from Chaguanas, 

 .July. Besides these, we have another ? ad., collected Febrnary 11, 1807, at 

 Savannah Grande, by Dr. Percy Rendall. 



The Trinidad form has erroneonsly been called C. elegants by all iirevious 

 authors. Fictts cliyan.^ Mfdl., as well as /'. J'n.'iroftilcm Bodd. and V. ciniiamomcus 

 Gm., are based on Daubenton's PL nil. 524, " Pic janue tachete de Ca>/eime.'' 



Four adult specimens (3 (?c?, 1 ? ), collected in Cayenne by Mr. G. K. Cherrie, 

 are very diflTereiit from our Trinidad series, being much larger and darker thronghoiit, 

 with the back dislinctly spotted. In fact, they agree very closely with the characters 

 of ('. rcicbenbacJd (as given in the Cat. B.) to which Mr. Hargitt actually refened 

 several examples from Cayenne. It is the more surprising to iind the name clegans 

 used as the specific term of another s])ecies which does not at all occur in Cayenne ! ! 



It seems also that two distinct forms have been united hitherto under the name 

 C. reichrnhnchi, but to which of them the latter is strictly ajiidicable, cannot be 

 decided with certainty from Mallierbe's description. The distinguishing cliaracters 

 of the three races are as follows : 



(a) Celi'us cleyans clcgaiix (P. L. S. Milll.). 



Picus elegam P. L. S. Midler, yatiir.v/sf. Siipi>l. (ITTO) p. 02 [based on 

 Danbenton, f'l. cnl. 524 — Cayenne]. 



I'icmfusco /ulcus Boddaert, Tatd. I 'I. ml. (17s3; p. 30 [liased on the same]. 



J'icus ciiiiiamomeuii Gmelin, Sgst. Sat. 1. i. (1788) p. 428 [based on the same]. 



Top of the head and crest ochraceons-bulf (Hidgw. V. 10); liack and upper 

 wing-coverts deep chestnut brown (rather darker than Kidgw., IV, (ig. 0), willi 



