] Tfi SoVITATES ZOOLOHICAE XXI. 1914. 



No. 2. Mns. Brit. : " ex coll. Salvin-Godraan. 



c? ad. Chili, Leybold (ex H. Barclay). 



Ttii>u of r. molitor W. E. D. Scott " . . Wing 102 ; tail 81 ; bill 22i mm. 

 No. 3. Mils. Triiig : " c? " ad. Valdivia, Chili . Wiug 99 ; tail 82 ; bill 22 mm. 



Meiieganx aud Hellmayr,* while discussing the various species of Ciiiclodes 

 in the collections of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, expressed the 

 surmise that 0. nipcstris might possibly be the same as the small, pale-bellied 

 species named C. oustuhi! by the late W. E, D. Scott.t Since that time I have had 

 an opportunity (for which I am indebted to Mr. Valentin Bianchi) of examining 

 Kittlitz's type-specimen belonging to the St. Petersburg Museum. It proves to be 

 very distinct from C. oustaleti, being much larger aud darker throughout. But on 

 comparing it with the type of C. molitor in the British Museum I fail to discover 

 any tangible dilference, and Kittlitz's term, having many years' priority, must take 

 precedence. 



The two type-specimens (Nos. 1 and 2) agree even in the shade of both the 

 npper and under parts, notably also in the pattern of the lower tail-coverts, which 

 are dark sooty brown with narrow whitish shaft-streaks and distinct huffy-white 

 apical spots. The axillaries and under wing-coverts are uniform sooty brown. The 

 type of C. molitor is very slightly larger, but the bill has exactly the same shape as 

 that of the two other examples. 



The Valdivia bird is rather darker, more sepia brown above, though the 

 difference is very trifling. 



Nos. 1 to 3 differ from C. p. patagonicus, of Tierra del Fuego, by their shorter 

 wings, darker brown upper parts and somewhat deeper, less greyish brown, under 

 surface. C. oustaleti Scott, however, may at once be distinguished by its much 

 smaller size (wing 88J-92 ; tail 67-68 mm.), much weaker as well as shorter bill 

 (16-18 mm), whitish middle of the belly, uniform rufous-brown crissum, white 

 axillaries, etc. Cf. Menegaux aud Hellmayr, I.e. \)\i. 01-62. 



85. Penelope obscura (Temm.) aud its allies. 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, t in his review of the genus Penelope, has united P. iiigri- 

 capilla Gray § and P. bridges! Gray || to P. obscura Temm, ,11 giving this species a 

 wide range extending from Bolivia and Western Argentine across the continent to 

 South-eastern Brazil. Owing to the altogether insufficient material at his command, 

 the author failed to recognise the true nature of several differences duly noticed in 

 his descriptions. Mr. Grant considered the birds with bronze green plnmage and 

 white edges to the crown-feathers as adult, those with brownish coloration and 

 nearly uniform pileum as young ones. Count Salvadori,** however, in speaking of 

 a Penelojje from Caiza, S.E. Bolivia, which he calls P. obscura (but which in reality 

 is F. 0. bridi/esi, as I shall show presently), remarked that a pullus did not differ in 

 coloration from two adults, all throe having the crown striped with white, and 

 expressed the belief that P. nigricapilla, of Brazil, might turn out to represent a 

 distinct form. 



* Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 19, 19Uli, p. G2. 



t Bull. H. 0. C. 10, p. 62 (1900— Central Chile). 



X Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 22, Isyii, p. 197. 



§ P. Z. ti. Lond. 1S(;0, p. 2G'J (I860.—" Brazil "). 



II I.I-. p. 270 (1860. — Bolivia). 



f Ui»t. Nat. Big. el Gall. iii. p. G8 (1H15.— ex Azara, No. 335 : Paraguay). 

 *• Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino 12, No. 292, 1897, p. 34. 



