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 5. Sporophila bouvronides (Loss.). 



PyrrhiUi hniin-nnides Lesson, Triuli- il'Orn., 1S31. p. 4.50 [no locality given]. 



Spermojihila Icxxotii Finsch, P. Z. .S. 1870. p. 582 [" Trinidad "— errore !]. 



Sj>ermoj>liila trhiilulis Sharpe, Cut. Ilh-ih lirit. yrus. xii. {1888) p. 132 [" Trinidad '—errore !]. 



S. bottvronoides L^otaud, Ois. Trinkkul, p. 318 (Trinidad). 



Noitbcr C'liaiiman nor Andre pollorted this species, and the type of S. trinitatis 

 Sharpe did also not come from Trinidad, but is of the usual " Orinoco "-make. 

 The only anthority for its occnrrence on the island i.s Leotand, who says tliat it is 

 fonnd in company with S. jninuta, but less common. 



I cannot see any reason for not accei)ting Lesson's term hoiaronuks. The 

 description answers well to the species with uniform black pilenm (cfr. " tete et cou 

 noir "), no mention being made of a white crown stripe. Even if Lesson's name 

 should be rejected, then Fiusch's designation lessoni would have precedence over 

 trinitatis Sharpe. 



S. bourronides is certainly only a straggler from the mainland, but an adult 

 male, collected by Leotand, on Trinidad, is preserved in the Paris Museum. 



As I will show in another paper, S. ocellatn and S. amazonica arc identical 

 with S. bouvronides, which, however, apjiears to be specifically distinct from 

 S. lincola, both species being found together at various localities. For want of 

 material, these birds are very unsatisfactorily treated of in the Catalogue of Birds. 



'i. Carduelis phoeniceus Bonap. 



Erroneously recorded from Trinidad in the Cat. Birds, xii. p. 166. The Tring 

 Museum received a large series of both sexes from the vicinity of Cumaiui. 

 The species is not known to occur elsewhere, unless C. grajiudensis Lafr. of New 

 Granada be the same. 



7. Mionectes olivaceus Lawr. 



Elnnia strkilicfiUis Wotaud, Ois. TiiiiidiiJ, p. 238 (Trinidad). 

 Mionectes olivaceus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Miis. vi. (1894) p. 38. 



The claims of this species to be included in the avifauna of Trinidad rest 

 upon the single specimen recorded by Leotaud. It has been examined and 

 identified by Chapman. Li the Tring Museum there is a good scries of M. o/iraeciis 

 from Cumaui'i. 



8. Pachyrhamphus albogriseus Scl. 



Taylor, Ibis 18i;4. p. 87 (" Trinidad "). 



There can be no doubt that the bird obtained by Taylor has been wrongly 

 identified as F. albogriseus. This species occurs only in the Andes of C'olombia 

 and Ecuador, and its occurrence on Trinidad is simply impossible. 1 suppose the 

 specimen really belonged to P. ru/us (Bodd.) (= cincreus auct.), of which there is 

 an adult male from Cumana in the Tring Jluseum. In the Catalogue of Birds 

 two 6 ad. of this species are recorded from Trinidad, but they are most probably 

 so-called "Orinoco" skins, which, in many collections, are labelled "Trinidad." 



Neither C!hapmau nor Ai.dn' met with any l'ar/,i/r/aimp//u.f of this grou|i, hence 

 the occurrence of B. ru/us remains to Ijc confirmed. 



