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 0. Dendrocolaptes altirostris Leotaud. 



0/s. Tnnhhnl, p. IOC. 



The description of tbis species, as given hy Leotand, agrees well with Dendrorms 

 susiz/'raiii susiirraiis (Jard.), so far as c'oloration is concerned, but the bill is said 

 to be " blanc de corne." I do not know what to make of this bird ; I can hardly 

 believe, however, that there is a species of Dendrocolaptes on Trinidad, not found 

 again since Ltotand's time. 



As the type is now in the collectiim of the Boston Society of Natnral History, 

 the matter could easily be settled by our American fellow-workers. 



10. Dendroplex pious (Gm.). 

 Although Leotaud says it is common, it has not been obtained by any of the 

 recent collectors. 



n. Cercomacra maculicaudis (i^cl.) [= nigricans Scl.]. 

 There cannot be the slightest doubt that this species has been wrongly 

 assigned to Trinidad. It occurs only on the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador 

 and C'olombia, extending northwards to Panama. 



1:^. Campylopterus ensipennis (Swains.). 

 In the Catalogue of Birds xvi. p. 290, and again in the Tierreich, Trochilid. 

 p. 31, this species is recorded from Trinidad, evidently on the strength of some 

 specimens in the British Museum labelled " Trinidad." These are skins of the 

 so-called " Orinoco "-make, and the occurrence of C. ensipennis on the island is not 

 yet ]iroved, although it is common both on the Paria coast and on Tobago. 



13. Agyrtria albiventris (Less.). 

 The two examples in the British Museum from " Trinidad " are also so-called 

 "Orinoco" skins (cfr. Salvin, Cat. B. xvi. p. 186: Agyrtria riridissima). As yet 

 there is no proof that the species ever occurs in Trinidad, nor is it found on the 

 Paria coast. 



14. Chrysuronia oenone oenone (Less.). 



This species has without doubt been wrongly indicated as occurring in Trinidad, 

 although Lesson described it from that island. The examples in the British 

 Bluseum labelled " Trinidad " are again so-called " Orinoco " skins. 



15. Thalurania refulgens Gould. 

 In nearly all works on Humming-birds we find Trinidad as the only locality 

 mentioned for this species, but as neither Leotaud nor any of the more recent 

 collectors ever met with it there, we may safely exclude it from the ornis of the 

 island. The Triug Museum received a very large number of skins from the state of 

 Cumand, N.E. Venezuela, and this is the only exact place known hitherto. 



10. Chaetocercus jourdani (Bourc). 



Calnlhornr enicuniR (neo Vieillot !j Luotaud, Ois. Trinidad, p. 143 (Trinidad). 



Leotaud's bird belonged without doubt to the above species, as may easily be 

 seen from the description of the tail : " rocttrices noires ; dn roux snr la barbe 



