( 330 ) 



1 ? (l)Mck greeu). t'aura River. Wiug ^.j ; tail M mm. 



2 SS (l)uck rasset). ('aura River. Wing 8;"), 80 ; tail (57 mm. 



1 cJ. Salto Girao, River Madeira, Nattercr coll. (back rusf;ct). Wing 85; 

 tail 70 mm. 



Hab. Cayc)i))C; British Guiana; Venezuela: Canra River ; \V. Brazil: Salto 

 do Girao, Rio Madeira (Natterer coll.). 



Obs. Dasi/cephala uropygialis Cab. may perhaps be the same as Attila f^p'ulicea 

 (Gm.) [type ex Cayenne in Mns. Vindob. ex Mus. Leveriano]. 



2. Attila brasilie/isis uropygiata (Wied). 



Musiiciipa nrnpiiriiafa Wied, Bc'ilr. Nalurri. Driisil. .3. ii. (1831) p. 8r,8 [Rio Doco, Espiritu Santo 



S.E. Brazil]. 

 Attila lirasilieiiKiH (nee Lesson !) Sclater, Cut. Binl.i xiv. p. 359 [S.E. Brazil]. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Three Bahia skins. Wing 90, 92, 97 ; tail 68, 71 i, 70 mm. 

 One adult, " Rio "-make. Wing 95 ; tail 74i mm. 



Hab. S.E. Brazil : Rio Doce, Espiritu Santo (Wied coll.) ; Bahia. In the 

 British Museum is a skin of the well-known " Rio "-make. 



29. Attila bolivianus Lafr. 

 In a paper published in the VcrhanJlungen dcr h. k. zool. hotan. Gesellsckaft 

 of Vienna, 1002. p. 97, 1 pointed out that A. ralidm Pelz. was obviously synonymous 

 with A. holicianus Lafr. Last year I had an opportunity of inspecting, in the 

 Paris Museum, some of Lafresnaye's original examples, and found my surmise to 

 be quite correct. There are three skins of D'Orbigny's in the French National 

 collection, labelled as " D. 367. Gnarayos, D'Orbigny 1834. Tyrannus nt/escri/s 

 nob." They agree in every respect with an adnlt male, collected by Natterer 

 in Central Brazil (typical A. validus), their identity being thus established beyond 

 doubt. The synonymy is given in my paper I. c, and need not be repeated here. 

 D'Orbigny's specimens measure as follows : 



No. 1. Wing 95 ; tail 83 ; bill 22 J mm. 



No. 2. Wing 98 ; tail 83 ; bill 24 mm. 



No. 3. Wing 94A ; tail 80 ; bill 23 mm. 

 The original specimens of A. validus in the Vienna Museum, ~ S S ■■ 

 Wiug 94-lOU ; tail S3— «9 ; bill 22—25 mm. 



3(1. Lanius uninifiis Puch. = Attila thamnophiloides (Spix). 



Musi-icapa tliiniimiiliiluidcs Spix, Ar. Bins. ii. (IKL'5) p. VJ. lab. xxvi. fig. 2 [" in locis sylvaticis fl. 



Aniazinuaitl. 

 Lanius uiiirufus (Cuvier MS.) Puchcran, An /i, .Uus. Paris vii. (1855) p. 332 [Cayenne]. 



1. Mus. Paris. Spec, typ., labelled as follows : " Attila thamnophiloides, 

 Lanius unirufus (Cuv.) Type. Cayenne, 3640." Wing 88 ; tail 82 ; bill 21 mm. 



2. Mus. Monac, av. jr. " Amazonas. Spix coll." Type of M. thamno- 

 philoides Spix. Wing 90 ; tail 89 ; bill 23 mm. 



Pucheran's type differs from No. 2 iu its shorter tail and narrower, shorter bill. 

 A series from Borba, however, varies iu the length of the tail from 80 to 87, and 

 in that of the bill from 20 to 22A mm. Both types are somewhat faded, and 

 look, therefore, paler than fresh skins. In No. 1 tlie whole lower surface is pale 

 ochraceous ; in No. 2 only the breast and abdomen are of this colour, while the 



