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 - 1 '. Euipidochanes poecilocercus Pelz. 



EmpidocJianci eta Pelzeln, Zur Ora Brasil. ii. (1868) p. 181 descr. orig. ? (Rio Amajau, 



Rio Negro). 

 Cfr. Rcrlepsch & Hellmayr, Journ./. Ornith. 1905, p. 27. 



No. 437. ? ad., Itaitnba, 12. i. 06. "Iris brown, bill and feet black." 

 Wing 55 : tail 48 : tars. 16J ; bill 14 ram. 



This is perhaps the most interesting bird in Mr. Hoffmanns' collection. Hitherto 

 but a single specimen was known, an adult ? procured by Nattererin the district of 

 the Rio Negro. Count Berlepsch and I published some notes about the typical 

 example and described the peculiar shape of the three outer primaries, in our paper 

 on little known types of neotropical birds, quoted above. 



The specimen sent by Hoffmanns has the outer primaries of the same curious 

 shape, and agrees in general coloration with the detailed MS. description I had 

 drawn up from the type, differing only iu its duller, more greenish brown upper 

 parts, cinnamomeous under tail-coverts, more whitish throat, and in having the bill 

 entirely black (not pale brownish at the base of the lower mandible). These slight 

 differences are probably individual. 



27. Onychorhynchus coronatus (P.L.S. Mull.) 



Uutcicapa coronata P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. 1776, p. 1G8 (ex Daubenton, P. enl. 289.— 



Cayenne). 

 Todus regius Gmelin, Syit Nat. i. 1 (1788), p. 445 (also based on Daubenton, PI. enl. 289). 

 Muscivora regia auct. 



No. 575. (c?) ad., Urncnritnba, 13. ii. 06. " Iris brown." 

 No. 570. c? jr., Urncnritnba, 12. ii. 06. " Iris dark brown." 

 They are practically identical with specimens from .Surinam and from the Canra 

 River, Venezuela. The back is of a dull dark brownish olive, and the upper tail- 

 coverts and chest are crossed by numerous blackish tranverse lines. 



Specimens from East Pern upon which O. castelnaui Dev. was established are 

 not different either. Deville, when describing this form, compared it with several 

 examples of O. swainsoni (Pelz.), as 1 satisfied myself by examining the series 

 in the Paris Museum. The two mounted specimens collected by the Castelnan 

 expedition are the only ones of true O. coronatus that exist in the French national 

 collection. 



28. Pipra fasciicauda Hellm. 



Pipmfcuciieauda Hellmayr, Ibis 1906, p. ? (nom. emend, for P.fatciata Lafr. et D'Orb.— type ex 



Yuracares, East Bolivia). 

 Piprafaet tola Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1867, p. 579 (Rio Tocantins). 



No. 430. S ad., Itaitnba, 13. i. 06. "Iris white." Wing 64; tail 31; 

 bill 11 mm. 



No. 448. <J imm., Itaitnba, 15. i. 06. " Iris white." 



The <J ad. agrees in size and coloration with specimens from Minas and 

 S. Paulo. The occurrence near Santarem is particularly interesting, as both Natterer 

 and Riker procured there P. a. aureola. P. fasciicauda had never been collected on 

 the Lower Amazons since the time of Wallace, who obtained it on the Rio Tocantins. 

 There can be no longer any doubt that his specimens were correctly referred to that 

 Bpecies by Sclater <fc Salvin. 



