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C. c«r?<fe««-phase. Natterer coll.' 



(?, Scaramnza. Wing 205 ; tail 190 mm. 



5, Scaramuza. Wing 203 ; tail 192 mm. 

 ?, Scaramnza. Wing 201 ; tail 177 mm. 



2 ? ?, Ytarare.* Wing 200, 202 ; tail 17.5, 176 mm. 



6, Jagnaraiba.* Wing 205 ; tail 190 mm. 



2. Anthus lutescens Pncb. 



Aiithus lutescens (ex Cuvier, MS.) Pucheran, Arch. Mas. Paris vii. (1855) p. .343 ["Brfsil '' — coll. 

 Delalande]. 



Mns. Paris, ad. labelled : " Farlonse jannatre. Anf/iiis lutescens (h\v. type, 

 du Br^sil, par M. Delalande." Wing 63| ; tail 46 ; bill 12 mm. 



Tbis is tbe species called A. vuj'us iu tbe Cat. B. Brit. Mns., as already 

 recognised liy Count Berlepsch {Zeitschr. ges. Ornith. ii. 1885. ji. 114). 

 Mr. Ridgway having recently em])loyed the name A. parrus for tbe small 

 neotropical Pijjit, I took the series of tbe Tring Museum over to Paris in order 

 to settle the question definitely, and found the surmise of tbe Count fully 

 confirmed. 



Tbe type agrees in every respect with a series from Babia and Rio, but, 

 owing to its having been exposed to the light for nearly a century, the colour.s 

 have faded and appear rather paler, especially on tbe back and chest. The 

 markings on tbe two outer tail-feathers are e.xactly as in other specimens from 

 S.E. Brazil. 



With a considerable series before me, 1 can find no differences between 

 examples from Rio, Bahia, Para, Corrientes, and Tucuman. All have a broad 

 blackish strijie along tbe inner web of the outermost tail-feather, reaching almost 

 to tbe tip, and there are no dusky shaft-stripes on the sides of the body. 



Eight skins from Chiriqui (yl. parvus Lawr.) differ very markedly in the 

 following points : Tbe outermost tail-feather is almost entirely white, there being 

 only at the extreme base a faint indication of a greyish inner margin ; tbe blackish 

 shaft-stripes on the lower parts are much coarser, and not confined to tbe foreueck, 

 but extended over the sides and flanks ; the wings are somewhat shorter. 



Specimens from British Guiana and Bogotd collections agree in the coloration 

 of the under parts with A. lutescens of S.E. Brazil, but the outermost tail-feather 

 is exactly as in the Panama form. Should additional skins confirm the constancy 

 of their characters, they must be separated as a third race. 



According to our present knowledge the following geographical forms of the 

 small Pipit of South America are recognisable : 



a. A. lutescens lutescens Puch., Eastern Brazil from Para to S. Paulo, west to 

 Corrientes and Tucuman, Argentine Republic. 



b. A. lutescens subsp., British Guiana (Roraima, Rio Rupununi, Annai) and 

 Colombia (Bogota coll.). 



c. A. lutescens parvus Lawr., Panama, Veragua and Chiriqni. 



d. A. lutescens permianus Nicholson, Coast region of Western Peru from 

 Trujillo (specimens in Mns. Tring, Baron coll.) to Islay. 



* As will be senn from Natterer's itinerary, these localities are not far from I'aranagua (I'elzelii, 

 Orn. Brasil. iv. p. v). 



