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These liinls agree perfectly with others from Tefie 1 ami Northern Peru. 

 The bill is very pale greyish, nearly whitish on the apical portion of the upper 

 mandible; the throat bright bnff; the feathers of the foreneck are distinctly 

 edged with blackish ; the spots on the head bnff, and the longitudinal stripes on 

 the nape more bnffy yellow. The breast and abdomen are strongly washed with 



rusty, as in a male from Nericagua, Upper Orinoco. Not yet recorded fi 1 the 



Rio Madeira. 



65. Dendrornis guttata eytoni (Scl.). 



Deudrocolaptes eytoni Sclater, P.Z.S. Lomf. 1853. p. CO. tab. 57 (Capim River, near Pard). 

 Dendrornis eytoni PelzelD, Zur Ornith. lira*, i. 1807. p. 45 (Borba, Rio Madeira). 



No. 1387. c? ad., Borba, 23. xi. 00. "Iris brown, bill black."— Wing 123; 

 tail 113; hill 43 mm. 



Besides this bird, I examined seven specimens collected near Borba by the 

 late Dr. Natterer, and preserved in the Vienna Museum. The series agrees with 

 a number of skins from Pari (topotypical) in the deep black bill and in the 

 bnffy white throat ; but it differs by the light markings on the crown and upper 

 back being of a brighter huff, and by the breast and abdomen being much 

 more suffused with rusty. In both these respects the Borba birds form the 

 transition to IK g. guttatoides, thereby proving that D. g. eytoni is to be looked 

 upon as a geographical form of the 1>. guttata group. A male from Itaituba 

 is exactly intermediate between the birds from Para and those from Borba. 

 For the present it seems not advisable to separate the latter from D. g. eytoni, 

 since some Para specimens have the spots on the head and najie quite as bright 

 buff. It would be interesting to examine the specimen from Salto Theotonio, 

 mentioned by Pelzeln s.n. I), eytoni; it most probably belongs to the preceding 

 form. 



00. Dendroplex picus (Gin.). 



Cf. supra, p. 16. 



Dendroplex 2>'tcus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. llrasil. i. 1807. p. 46 (Salto Theotonio, Borba). 



No. 1452. S ad., Borba, 7. xii. 00. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill 

 grey."— Wing 93 ; tail 78* ; bill 28 mm. 



Agreeing with a specimen from Itaituba, Tapaj6z. Both are slightly more 

 rnfescent underneath than typical Cayenne skins, but cf. Meneg. and Hellm., 

 Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Autun xix. 1906. pp. 108-9. 



*07. Dendrexetastes devillei (Lafr.). 



Deudrocolaptes Devillei Lafresnaye, Iter. May. Zool. 1850. p. 102 (Sarayacu, Peru) ; cf. Mi'm';;aux 

 and Hellmayr, Mini. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Autun xix. 1906. p. 111. 



No. 1038. c? ad., Ilumaytha, 2. viii. 06. "Iris light brown, feet and bill 

 greenish grey." — Wing 105 ; tail 109 ; bill 32 mm. 



This specimen agrees well with others from East Peru. The differences 

 between IK devillei and If. temmincki are fully stated /.<•. 



The Tring Museum has lately obtained a copy of the rare Leveque edition 

 of the Supplements aux ceucres de Bvffon, of which Lesson's little-known book, 

 Description des Mammiferes et des Oiseaux forms one volume, published in 1^47. 

 In this work, on p. 281, Lesson describes a bird from Cayenne under the 

 name Dendroeolaptes (Orthoeolaptes) rufigula, which is undoubtedly the same 



