(-377 ) 



This bird agrees, in size and coloration, with onr series of S. s. leucostigma, 

 except iu having rather smaller white apical spots on the wing-coverts. From 

 the Hnmaytha skins it differs by its longer tail and by the under mandible being 

 partly greyish. 



iU. Hypocneniis cantator peruvianus Tacz. 

 Cf. supra, p. 67. 



No. 018. ? ad., Hnmaytha, 13. vii. 00. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black, below 

 grey."— Wing 54 ; tail 38 ; bill 1CA mm. 



Sides of the belly pale ochraceons, as iu a female from Tefle, while another skin 

 from this locality has them much darker. The Humaytha bird, however, differs 

 from all females of II. c. peruvianus by having the mantle less mottled with 

 blackish and buff. 



92. Hypocuemis punctulata (Des Blurs). 



Rkopotera punctulata Des Murs in: Castelnau's Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 53 (June 1856.*— " Haut 

 Amazone," sc. Peruvian Amazons) ; cf. Me'neg. & Hellm., Bull. Soc. Philom. /'»/■;..■, 1906, 

 p. 47. 



Rhopothera guttata Des Murs, I.e. tab. xvii. fig. 3 (December 1856*). 



Nos. 1092, 1109, 1209. $S ad., Humaytha, 8, 10. viii., 4. ix. 00. " Iris brownish 

 red or grey, feet grey, bill black."— Wing 58, 59, 01 ; tail 29, 30, 30£ ; bill 

 16 — 16£ mm. 



No. 1203. S vix ad., Hnmaytha, 31. viii. 00. " Iris brown, feet dark grey, bill 

 black."— Wing 58 ; tail 29 ; bill 16A mm. 



No. 933. S jr., Humaytha, 16. vii. 00. "Iris and feet grey, bill black."— 

 Wing 57 ; tail 28i ; bill 17 mm. 



Nos. 930, 932, 1194. ? ? ad., ? imm., Humaytha, 10. vii., 31. viii. 00. " Iris 

 and feet grey, bill black."— Wing 56—58 ; tail 281—31 ; bill 10! mm. 



Except in averaging slightly smaller, these specimens agree with a series 

 from the Peruvian Amazons and the Caura valley. 



//. punctulata differs from //. v. naevia (Gm.) and H. n. theresae (Des Murs) 

 by its much shorter tail, grey (not wax-yellow) feet, black (not brown) upper tail- 

 coverts, white (instead of slate-grey) lores, cheeks and ear-coverts, and by having 

 the rump not uniform brown, but black spotted with white ((?) or buff (?). 

 Moreover, in the adult males the flanks are never ochraceons buff, but earthy brown 

 or greyish; and the females have the throat, foreneck, and middle of the breast 

 white, the sides and the crissum alone being buff, while iu those of //. n. naevia 

 and // n. theresae all the under-snrface (except the white throat) is of a deep 

 buff yellow (Ridgw. vi. 19). The range of II. punctulata, thus far known, is as 

 follows : 



North Peru: Pebas (Castelnau and Deville), Ljuitos (Whitely). West Brazil : 

 Humaytha, Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns) ; Rio Amajau, a tributary of the Rio Negro 

 (Natterer); Rio Javarri (Bates). Venezuela: La Pricion, Canra valley (Andre). 



N.B. — The so-called Bogota skin in the British Museum (H. naevia Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds xv. ii. 291, spec, h) belongs to 11. naevia theresae, agreeing in every 

 respect with Peruvian examples. Though certainly not a Bogota skin, its make 

 is entirely unknown to me. 



* Cf. Woodward & Sherborn, Ann. Mag .Vw. II, .it. , -) viii. 1901. p. 16*. 



