( as ) 



concords with C ma>-ga>itae from Mattogrosso. This ranst be a mistake, for I 

 carefnlly compared the specimen in question, and fonnd it perfect!)' agreeing with 

 skins from S. Paulo — i.e. C. /. chloroptera. It has the back of the same golden 

 buff colour as the latter, and there is just a faint ocliraceous tinge across the 

 forehead only to be seen when viewed from in front. A similar example from 

 Victoria, S. Panlo, is in the Tring Museum. 



(e) C. flata sincipitalis Berl. 



llab. State of Goyaz : City of Goyaz (Natterer, Bacr) ; Leopoldina ou the 

 Rio Araguaya (von den Steinen coll. ; Mus. H. v. Berlepsch). 



S ad. Differs from €./. chloroptera by having the back slightly mixed with 

 silvery-greenish, and the forehead (as far as the posterior border of the eye) 

 decidedly darker, ochraceons-rufous, this colour shading into ochraceous ou the 

 vertex, and into golden buff on the nape. 



? ad. Top of the head distinctly darker, more ochraceons-rufous than in the 

 females of C. f. Jiara and C. f. chloroptera. 



One adult <? from Goyaz. — Wing 76J ; tail 50 mm. 



One nearly adult S from Goyaz, — Wing 74 ; tail 52 mm. 



Two imm. S S from Goyaz. — Wing 74, 73 ; tail 53 mm. 



One ? from Goyaz. — Wing 73 ; tail 55 mm. 



(d) C. flava margaritae (Allen). 

 Calliste margaritae Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. Y. iii. p. 351 (1891. — Chapada, Mattogrosso). 



Hab. Only known from Chapada in Mattogrosso (Smith). 



S ad. Differs from C.J. sincipitalis by having the back still paler and more 

 mixed with silvery-greenish, and the forehead as well as the vertex bright 

 ochraceons-rufous [the upper surface of the body being coloured as in C. cayana 

 (Linn.)]. 



? ad. Cap bright ochraceons-rufous as in C.f. sincipitalis. 



Twelve adnlt SS (Mus. Tring, Brit., and Vienna).— Wing 73—77; tail 

 53 — 55 mm. 



Four adult ? ?.— Wing 71—75 ; tail 52—56 mm. 



20. Ramphocelus carbo connectens Berl. & Stolzm. 



[LaniMS carho Pallas in Vroeg's Cat. Adumhratiuncula p. 2, Nos. 114, 115 (1764. — Surinam).] 

 Rhamphocelus jacapa connectens Berlepsch & Stolzmann, P. Z. S. Limd. 1806. p. 344 (La Merced, 



Central Peru). 

 Ramphncelus alrosericeux (not of Lafr. & D'Orb.) Pclzeln, I.e. p. 211 (Rio das Pedras, Rio ParanA, 



Goiaz, CuyabA, Villa Maria, Engenho do Gama, Matogrosso). 



No. 1873. S ad., Goyaz, March.— Wing 83; tail 86 ; bill 15 mm. 



Nos. 1946, 1955. ? ? Goyaz, March. 



No. 1772. c? ad. in moult, Faz. Esperanc^a, January 1906. 



Nos. 1735, 18(16. ? ad., ? juv., Faz. Esperan^a, January, February 1906. 



So far as coloration is concerned, the adult males are identical with the types 

 from Central Peru, which, however, have rather shorter wings and tail. 



Birds from S. Leopoldina, Aragnaya, are more washed with crimson on the 

 abdomen, and seem to be nearer or even referable to li. c. carho. I hope to discaas 

 the geographic variation of R. carbo on an early occasion. 



