178 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. 



Examined. — 1 adult from Bolivia, Bridges coll., type of t\ hridgesi Gray; 

 1 ? Oran, Salta, June 11, 18913, obtained by F. Gerling, in the British Musenm ; 

 S SS, 1 ?, Tueuman (Tati, S. Pablo), collected by L Dinelli and S. Ventnri, in the 

 Tring Museum. 



Obs. — The series is remarkably uniform in its characters. It differs from P. o. 

 obscura by the decidedly brown coloration of the upper and anterior under parts, 

 much broader, pure white edges on the mantle and upper wing-coverts, and by 

 having the crown conspicuously streaked with white. 



((?) Penelope obscura bronchia n. subsp. 



P.jdcupeba (nee Spix) Sclater and Salvin, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 524 (Rio, S. Paulo). 

 P. mgricap'iUii (nee Gray) Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Pra.i. iii. 1869, p. 281, 341 (Ytarare, S. Paulo). 

 /'. nhsciirii (nee Temminck) Ihering and Ihering, Cat Fmw. Brazil, i. 1907, p. 14 {S. Paulo ; Colonia 

 Hansa, Santa Catharina). 



Hab. — .South-eastern Brazil from southern Minas Geraes to Santa Catharina. 

 Minas Geraes : Esta^ao do Tnunel (A. Uobert) ; Rio de Janeiro (Duke Leuch- 

 tenberg, A. Fry, etc.); S. Paulo: Ytarare (Natterer), Piquete (Robert); Parana: 

 RoQa Nova, Serra do Mar (A. Robert) ; Santa Catharina : Blumenau (Schliiter), Col. 

 Hansa (Ehrhardt). 



Frontal edge black ; general colour of uj)per parts, foreneck and chest 

 decidedly bronze green ; feathers of forehead, crown, and superciliary region 

 conspicuously edged with clear ashy grey or hoary, the mantle with broader and 

 more whitish margins ; upper wing-coverts narrowly edged with pale greyish, 

 these margins becoming obsolete on the greater series ; foreneck and chest more 

 broadly edged laterally with greyish white ; breast and abdomen light bronze 

 brown, similarly marked with rnfous cross-lines and vermiculations as in P. o. 

 bridgesi., but of a rather paler tint. 



SS. Wing 31U-330 ; tail 310-320 ; bill 36-37 mm. 



? ?. Wing 270-285 ; tail '-.'so-SdO ; bill 33-35 mm. 



Type in Zoological Museum, Munich : No. 12.415 i ad. Colonia Hansa, Santa 

 Catharina, S. Brazil. Collected by W. Ehrhardt. 



Examined. — 2 SS,\ ? , 'Itarare, S. Paulo, Natterer coll., Vienna Mnseum ; 

 (J ? , Rio de Janeiro, A. Fry coll., one adult from Rio (ex Deyrolle), 2 ? ? , Esta^ao 

 do Tunnel, Minas Geraes, December 7, 1900, obtained by A. Robert, in the British 

 Museum; 1 cJ, Rofa Nova, Parana, September 22, 1901, 1 ?, Piquete, S. Paulo, 

 February 28, 1901, A. Robert coll., in the Tring Museum ; 1 ? ad. Blumenau, 

 Santa Catharina, in Mus. H. v. Berlepsch ; c? ? , Rio de Janeiro, obtained by the 

 Duke of Leuchtenberg, and 1 J', Colonia Hansa, Santa Catharina, W. Ehrhardt 

 coll. (type of subspecies) in the Munich Museum. 



Obs. — This strongly characterised form cannot be confused with either of 

 the preceding. Its bronzy green coloration, together with the conspicuous greyish 

 white striations of the crown, render it easily recognisable among the southern 

 species of Penelope. It approaches some of the northern representatives of this 

 genus, e.g. P. inarail (Gm.) \_ = jacupeba Spi.K], from Guiana, in the generally 

 green plumage, but may be distinguished by the markings of the jiileum, blackish 

 brown (instead of ashy grey) cheek-stripe, etc., etc. 



It is quite possible that P. marail, P. obscura, and P. jacqu-a(;u Spix 

 (= boliciana Keichb.) are merely races of a single species. 



