( 100 ) 



f ad., Ooyaz.— Wing 122 mm. 

 4 cJcJ jr., Goyaz. — AVing 114 — 115 mm. 

 1 ? juv., Goyaz. — Wing 115 mm. 

 ¥ ? ad., S. Paulo.— Wing 123, 125 mm. 

 (J jr., ? jr., S. Paulo.— Wing 115, 119 mm. 



Seven skins sent from the Hio Madeira by Mr. noDTmanns (cf. Xoi\ Zool. xiv. 

 1907, p. 410) are decidedly smaller, tbe wings measuring from lOG to 110 mm. 



1S5. Nothui'a maculosa (Temm.). 



Titiamus maritlmu^ Temuiinck, Hist. Nat, Pig. el Gall. iii. p. 557 (1815. — ex Azara, No. 327 : 

 Paraguay). 



No. 2441. J imm., Agua Suja, Minas Gcraes, lOOO metr., October 190G. — 

 Wing 125 ; bill 18 mm. 



Differs from a S. Paulo specimen in having the ground-colour of tbe upper 

 2)arts rather lighter rnfesceut brown, and the upper wing-coverts decidedly paler 

 ochreons. Both characters are probably individual. 



Cf. my remarks in the revision of Spi-x' types, Abhandl. Akad. Wissensch. 

 Miuichen ii. V\. Bd. xxii. 3. 1906. pp. 706-7. 



186. Theristicus caudatus (Bodd.). 



Scolopax caudatus Boildaert, Tubl. PI. ciil. p. 57 (178.?. — ex Daubenton, PI. ml. 'J7G. — Cayenne). 

 Geroiiticus albicollis Pelzolu, Ziir Ornith. Bras. iii. 18G9. p. 507 (Araguay). 



No. 2315. ? ad., Kio Araguaya, July 1906. 



This bird agrees exactly with an adult from the Orinoco and with Daubenton's 

 figure, having the pileum very dark cliostnut-brown, while this is of a much paler 

 hue in another example from the Orinoco, and in several skins from Britisli Guiana, 

 Western Colombia (Cauca valley), etc. 



Cf. Salvadori's exhaustive memoir in the Ibis, 19U0. pp. oOO-ll. 



187. Ajaja ajaja (Linn.). 



Platalea Ajajn Linnaeus, Sijst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 2;il (17G6. — ex Brisson : Cayenne, etc.). 



One specimen, not sexed, in the plumage described by Mr. R. B. Sharpe as 

 that of the adult male * : Rio Araguaya. 



188. Eurypyg:a helias (Pall.). 



AnUa Uclias Pallas, Ncue Nord. Bei/tr. ii. p. 48. tab. iii. (1781. — Brasilicn). 



No. 2228. cJ imm., Rio Araguaya, June 1906. 



189. Heliornis fulica (Bodd.). 



Cobjmhus fulica Boddaeit, Tahl. PI. cid. p. 54 (1783 — e.\ Daubenton, PI. enl. 893. — Cayenne) 

 Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. 18C9. p. 318 (Rio Araguay). 



No. 2380. S ad., Rio Araguaya, August 1906. 



19u. lonornis martinica (Linn.). 



Ftdica marimica Linnaeus, tiyst. ±\at. xii. 1. p. 25'J (1700. — "in Martiuicae inuudatis "). 



No. 1782. (? ad., Faz. Esperan(;'a, January 1906. 



• Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. h^'JS. p. 04. 



