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180. Gallinula galeata galeata (Lcht.). 



Crex gtileala Lichtenstein, Verz. Duhl. p. 80 (1823— San Paulo). 



One S ad. from Caroni, April ; and another S from C'aroni Swamp, March. 



They agree iu colour and diiiiension.s with several examples from South Brazil. 

 G. (J. fjiirmnni Allen, of Lake Titicaca, Fern, is easily known by its much larger 

 size, stouter and larger bill, and p-eDerally blacker plumage. 



LSI. Porphyriola martinica (Linn.). 



Fulica iiKirliinra Linnaeus, Syni. Nat. xii. 1. (170C), p. 259 ("in Martinicae inundatis"). 

 1 (J ad. and 1 ? juv. from Caroni, March and April. 



182. Parra jacana jacana (Linu.). 



Parra Jacana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, xii. 1. (1766) p. 259 [(excl. quot. Hernandez) ex Marcgrave and 

 Edwards. — Surinam : ex Edwards]. 



One c? and two young birds from Caroni Swamp, April, and a single ? ad. 

 from Seelet, April, agreeing best with specimens from Valencia, Venezuela. 

 Typical skins from Surinam are perhaps rather lighter on the back, but are 

 otherwise not different. P. j. melunopi/f/ia Scl. and P. j. variabilis Linn, are 

 undoubtedly but geographical representatives of P.j. jacana, and thus more pro- 

 perly designated by trinomials. Strange to say, one of them (variabilis) has been 

 made the type of a separate genus, Asarcia Sharpe ! ! -which, we trust, will only be 

 recognised by those affected with furor ffeneriacs. 



183. Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



Tihir/a Tiili'i-jires Linnaeus, Si/U. Nal. x. p. 148(1758: "in Europa et America septentrionali." — 

 We accept Sweden as typical locality : ex Fauna suec. 154). 



1 ? from Seelet, April. 



184. Ochthodromus wilsonia rufinucha (Ridgw.). 



[Charadriun viUonia Ord : in Wilson, Amcr. Oni. ix. (1814), p. 77. tab. 73, fig. 5 ("Cape Island 



New Jersey").] 

 Acffialilh Wils'iuius var. riifinurha Ridgway, -twice. Nat. viii. (1874), p. 109 (.Jamaica). 



4 <S ad. and 2 $ ? from Seelet, April. 



All the males have a broad black jugular band, slightly mixed with pale 

 rufous, and a black patch on the crown just behind the white forehead. The sides 

 of the head are bright rusty. In the females the blackish crown patch is wanting, 

 and the jugular cross-band is bright rusty like the cheeks and ear-coverts. 



Tills bird is by no means only a winter visitor to the tropics, as Mr. Sharpe seems 

 to think, for Mr. Hartert found it breeding in numbers on the islands Arnba and 

 Bonaire, Dutch West Indies. 



18.5. Aegialitis semipalmatus (Bp.). 



Cliaradrius snnijHiImalus Bonaparte, " Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 219."* 

 3 (JcJ, 1 ?, from Seelet, April. 



' I have not been able to verity' the .ibove quotation. 



