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This specimen agrees well with others from the Peruvian Amazons except in 

 being a very little smaller. The Tring Museum possesses also one Bogota skin, 

 which differs from the Amazonian one by being more brownish green on the back, 

 and by the brighter ferruginous ground-colour of the abdomen with the cross-bands 

 broader and of a deeper black. These, however, are uot likely to be constant 

 differences. These two specimens extend the range of the species considerably to 

 the north and east. 



New to the Brazilian fauna. 



115. Creciscus exilis exilis (Temm.) 



Rallus exilis Temminck, Ree. Pi Col. livr. 87. pi. 523 (1831. — "envoye au Muse'e de Paris par 

 M. Martin,'' no locality given. We substitute Cayenne, whence Martin sent many birds to the 

 Paris Museum). 



Nos. 816, 907. c?c? ad.. 13, 20. vi. 06. " Iris red or yellowish red, feet brown, 

 bill black or blackish grey." — Wing 74, 75 ; tail 35 ; bill 18, 19i mm. 



These two birds differ from a Merida specimen by their much stronger and 

 longer bills, longer tail, darker sepia-brown back, smaller chestnut patch on the 

 nape, and more cinereous foreneck. With the scanty material at my command I 

 cannot say whether these differences are of any importance, nor whether the birds 

 from Teffe or that from Merida represents typical C. exilis. This question can only 

 be decided by the examination of a series from Cayenne. 



Rallus cinereus Vieill.,* quoted iu the Cat. of Birds as a synonym of C. exilis, 

 can scarcely belong here, no mention being made of the large chestnut rufous nape 

 patch. 



110. Aramides cajanea (P. L. S. Mull.) 



Fuliea cajanea P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 119 (1776.— ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 352. — 

 Cayenne). 



No. 797. ? imm., 10. vi. 06. "Iris yellow, feet light red, bill greyish green." 

 Agreeing with specimens from various localities of northern South America. 

 There is a dull rufescent brown patch on the occiput. Cfr. my revision of 

 Spix' types, pp. 712-13, where I have pointed out that A. cayanea (sic) and 

 " snbsp. A. chirieote" of the Cat. of Birds are based on individual variation, the 

 presence or absence of the brown patch on the occiput being of no geographical 

 significance. 



117. Crypturus cinereus (Gm.) 



Cfr. Nov. Zuol. xiii. (1906) p. 385. 



No. 880. ? , 22. vi. 06. " Iris yellow, feet brown, bill brown." 



This specimen does not differ in coloration from Guiana and Surinam skins, 



and seems, therefore, to belong to typical C. cinereus, described from Cayenne. 



An adult ? from Maipures, Orinoco, is much paler and more rufescent brown 



everywhere. 



118. Crypturus brevirostris (Pelz.) 



Tinamus brevirostris Pelzeln, Verhandl. zool.bol. Gesellseh. Wien xiii. pp. 1128, 1130.(1863. — Barra 

 do Rio Negro). 



No. 848. ? ad., 17. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black, below grey."— 

 Wing 141 ; biU;23jnm. 



* iXouv. Diet, xxviii. (1819) p. 65G. 



