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 10. *Lanio versicolor (Lafr. it D'Orb.). 



Tachyphonus versicolor Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Si/n. Ar. i. in Mag. Zool. 18;S7. cl. ii. p. 28 (Yura- 

 cares, Bolivia). 



No. 1063. S, Humaytha, 8. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet greyish brown, bill 

 black."— Wing 82; tail 70 ; bill 13A mm. 



This bird agrees perfectly with specimens from Poznzo and Chnchnrras, 

 province Huauueo, Peru. Typical Bolivian skins are not available for comparison. 



L. versicolor differs from its nearest ally, L. atricapillus, of which the Tring 

 Museum possesses a very large series from Cayenne, British Guiana, Eastern 

 Ecuador and Bogota collections, by its much smaller size, much weaker and shorter 

 bill, and in many details of coloration. The rump and upper tail-coverts are bright 

 chrome yellow (not deep ochraceous), the throat is olive-green (not deep black), 

 the pileum washed with the same colour instead of being uniform jet black ; the 

 upper wing-coverts except the outermost of the greater series are white (instead of 

 dull black) ; all the uuder-surface is bright saffron yellow, scarcely passing into 

 a deeper shade on foreneck and under tail-coverts ; the axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts are pnre white (not pinkish buff). In L. atricapillus the lower side is 

 orange ochraceous, deepening into ochraceous on anal region and under tail-coverts, 

 and the foreneck is more or less extensively deep tawny. 



L. versicolor is new to the Brazilian fauna. 



20. Tachyphonus cristatus (Gm.) subsp. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905, pp. 274-5, and supra, p. 30. 



No. 1183. S ad., Humaytha, 29. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."— 

 Wing 82; tail 72 ; bill 134 mm. 



This bird differs from our large series of T. c. cristatus by its much smaller 

 bill, and by the crest lacking the fulvous-buff lateral border which is but slightly 

 indicated in front. Additional specimens are required to show if the Humaytha 

 form is separable. The examples from Borba t secured by Natterer should also be 

 re-examined. 



21. Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafr. & D'Orb. 



Cf. supra, p. 7 ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bins. iii. 18G9. p. 213 (Borba, Salto Grirao). 



Nos. 954, 951, 1039, 1040. $ $ ad., ? ? : Humaytha, 19. vii., 2. viii. 06. "Iris 

 brown, bill and feet black." 



Nos. 1327, 1378, 1436. $$ ad., ? : 13, 22. xi., 2. xii. 06. "Iris dark brown, 

 feet and bill black." 



This series agrees with topotypical examples from Bolivia. 



22. Eucometis penicillata penicillata (Spix). 



Tajiiagra petiicillaia Spix, Ar. Bras. ii. p. 30. tab. xlix. fig. 1 (1825. — no locality). 

 Eucometis penicillata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. iii. 1869. p. 212 (Borba). 



Nos. 927, 958, 960, 981, 954. <S S ad., ? ? ad., S juv., Humaytha, 15, 19, -,'4. 

 vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet brown or grey, bill black, below brown." 



These birds agree perfectly with an example from Borba which I had 



t Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. p. 213. 



