( SoO ) 



wiiirli lit'loiigs tu quite ii iliUVrriit group, havinv the chest spotted with white! 

 while ill 1'. mnccdniiclli tlic wlidle lower surface tVoiu the chin Ui tlie under tail- 

 fuverts is closely ijarrcil with black auil white, just, as iu P. cirratus. There are, 

 however, several small dillereiices whiih justify the separatiou of the uortherii birds 

 as a subspecies. Comiiared with a series of 20 adult birds of true P. c. cirnitns 

 from Kio, Espiritn Santo and S. I'aulo, the three specimens have a slightly larger 

 and stronger bill, the back of a darker brown, and the black bars on the lower 

 surface much broader and deeiicr black. The cheeks and ear-coverts, too, are 

 darker, more blackish. The other distinctive characters pointed out by Miss 

 .Snethlage do not hold good, some of my specimens from S.E. Brazil having, 

 the bill entirely plnmbeous, and the forehead ([uite as pale buffy whitish as the 

 northern form. 



The birds from Para being practically identical with the type from P.rilish 

 Guiana, P. umazoiiicus becomes a synouym o*' Sharjie's name, and the ibrm has to 

 stand as P. cirratus maccoii/ieUi ISharpe. 



47. Ortalis squamata (Less.) 



OrlulUla sqnamtla Lesson, Dkl. Sci. Nat. Ivi. (1829) p. VJ5 [" Brusil'] ; idem, Traili d'On,. lK:il. 

 p. 481 ["du Cresil"] ; Berlcpsch & Ihering, Zcilsclir. ijck. Oni. ii. (1885), p. 17'J [Rio graude 

 do SulJ. 



1. Mas. Paris, spec. typ. labelled as follows : " Ortalida squamiUa (Less.) 

 A. de S. llilaire, Bresil." Ou the bottom of the stand: " 2vu. \V.)Vi. I'.resil, 

 Ste. Catherine. M. de St. Hilaire, li<22.— Vrtali(/a sqiiainata Less., type." 

 Wing 209, tail 240, bill 25i mm. 



2. Mus. Triug, ad., Blnmeuau, Santa (Jatharinu. \\'iug l»n, tail 220, bill 



25 mm. 



3. Mus. Tring, ad., Taqnara do Muiido Novo, Rio graude do Sul, July ILI, 1>>S3, 

 11. V. Ihering coll. Wing 18(3, tail 217, bill 24 mm 



Lesson's type agrees perfectly with No. 2, dillcriug only in its rather larger 

 size. The determination of the species by Count Berle[isch and Mr. Ogilvie- Grant 

 thus proves to be correct. As clearly pointed out by the former authority, the 

 species is quite distinct from the Bahia form named 0. alliiveiitris in the Cat. 

 Birds xxii. p. 508. In the latter bird the whole breast and abdomen are uniform 

 pure white, while in O. S'juamata they are wood-brown witli distinct greyish apical 

 margins. The thighs, dirty white iu U. albicentris, are dark brown, or rnfesceut 

 browu, in the South Bra/.iliau form. The top of the head is but a shade more 

 rnfesceut olive brown than the back (instead of bright brownish chestnut as in 

 (). ulbiveiitris), and there is scarcely any trace of the rufous bntf forehead and 

 superciliary stripe to be seen in the Bahia form. The feathers of the mantle have 

 uo pale margins, the feathered jiortiou of the lower throat is uniform olive brown 

 (not at all spotted with greyish white), and the foreiieck decidedly darker, more 

 blackish brown with definite greyish white margins (not dark grey with whitish 

 tii>s as in the Bahia form). Altogether, 0. squamata resembles much more 

 O. (jatlnta from the Upper Amazons, but still it is distinguishable by its unspotted 

 (dive browu lower throat and uniform rufesccnt lirown upper part of the head 

 (not blackish browu or dusky with greyish spots on forehead and superciliary 



region). 



0. squamata is only known from Santa t'alharina (whence I received a 



