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P.S. — Since the ubove was written, I exainiued tlie series in the British 

 Mnseum. The adnlt bird colleited b)- Wallace on the Cajiim River a<rrees perfectly 

 with our d from Para. A topotyiiical skin of C. />. bo(jote)isis (from Boj];ot;i) dilfers 

 from both in its cinereous occiput, only the forehead, sincijjut and naj)e being 

 vinaceons. A larger series is reipiired to confirm the constancy of tliis character 

 or otherwise. 



110. "Geotrygon violacea violacea (Knip & Temm.) 



Culiimha fhilaccii, Knip & Temminck. rii/cuiix, Fam. (jihiinhia (IS08-11) p. 137, pi. :i9 (luu. ign. — 

 Mus. Paris). 



1 ? fere ad. from Prata, Para, 23. xi. 0.5. No. 184. " Iris light brown, bill 

 greyish red." Wing 145; tail 8<J (moulting); bill 15 mm. 



It agrees with several adults from Victoria, >S. Paulo, but has the foreneck 

 rather more greyish. All Brazilian specimens examined by me have the vertex 

 l)ure light grey, shading into whitish on the forehead and the cheeks ; the malar 

 region and ear-coverts are very pale greyish. 



Para is a very interesting locality, and extends the range of the species far to 

 the north. I have examined specimens from Rio de Janeiro (Mus, H. v. Berle])sch), 

 Victoria (Tring) and Ypanema, S. Paulo (Natterer ; Vienna Mus.), Rio Jordao, 

 jirovince Araguay, Minas Geraes (Robert ; Mus. Tring), and Bahia (Wucherer ; 

 Mus. Brit.). 



Schlegcl t records a specimen from Surinam, which, however, cannot be 

 Temminck's type {ciJe supra). 



Young birds liave the forehead dnll whitish, the vertex and occiput dull bronzy 

 greeu, the back bronze-brown, with only slight purple reflections on the mantle, 

 the foreneck and chest dirty brown, aiul the (piills with distinct cinnamon ajiical 

 margins. 



The Central American form, (J. c. alljirciitcr, % though closely allied, can easily 

 be distinguished by having the forehead (as far as the anterior edge of the eye), 

 cheeks, malar region, and ear-coverts clear bulf-pink (Ridgw., Sonien<:l. iv. ^nj, 

 there being no trace of the bluish grey colour on the crown. C)f this form I have 

 compared a good series from Miravolles, Costa iiica (Underwuod coll.). 



117. Coliimbigallina passerina griseola (Spix). 



[Ciiliiiiihii jHissciimi Linnaeus, ■S'yx/. »Y"f. x. (176H) p. IG.'i [part. ; as typical locality accepted : Jamaica 



(ex Sloauc — first quotation.)] 

 ('nlnnihiwi (jriseola Spix, -li'. Bra/;, ii. (IH25) p. 58, pi. l.^.-cv'., fig. i ('■ in sylvia fl. Aiiav.nimm "). 

 Cliamae/iiiia /lasKirina (nee Linnc) Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1 8li7. p. 591 (Para) ; Layard, IbU 1873. 



p. 305 (Parti). 



1 c? fere ad. from I'rata, IT. xi. U5. No. 14V. " Iris rosy red." 



Besides this, we received an adult cJ from Prof. Steere, collected near Bemfica, 



Para, August 30. Both specimens have the bill entirely blackish. 



As I have shown in my paper on Spix's types, ( '. i/riseola was based ujion a 



female of the present species. Consequently this luxme must be accepted for the 



continental form of C. j/a^sserimi. 



t .l/w.<. l'inj»-li(iK iv. Cidnmbac, p. liiij. 



{ Ccolrijiji'n alliivciitir J,awrtnce, iVw. Acoit. I'hilad. l!*G,j. p. lOS (l.lon Hill, I'anama). 



