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No. 1309. ? inarm, Borba, 20. xi. 06. "Iris brown, feet grey, bill blackish 

 grey," below yellowish. — Wing 68; tail 44; bill 19 mm. 



There can be no doubt, I believe, that //. kypoleuea Ridgw., based on a 

 specimen from Santarem, is merely the female of //. lugubris, although Mr. Chap- 

 man (I.e.) states that a typical example sent to I>r. Sclater was pronounced by this 

 gentleman to be the female of a nearly allied, but distinct species. It. should be 

 noticed that the type of //. kypoleuea was "taken July 11th, 1 S ^T, in company 

 with'' an adult male referred by Mr. Chapman to //. lugubris, and it seems 

 more than probable that these two specimens were a mated pair. Moreover, there 

 is not the slightest doubt that the Santarem form is true II. lugubris, since an 

 adult male from that place in Count Berlepsch's collection (W. A. Schulz coll.) 

 proved to be indistinguishable from the type of the species kindly lent by 

 Dr. Reichenow, of Berlin. 



In the females there is a certain amount of variation as regards the coloration 

 of the sides of the head. Adult birds have the cheeks and ear-coverts dull black 

 with a few rufescent buff shaft-lines, while they are mainly cinnamon or rnsset 

 brown in immature females. That this difference is due to age is proved by a 

 small series of specimens from Borba, in which both extremes as well as an 

 intermediate stage are represented. 



//. lugubris is a very fine and distinct species. The male resembles in general 

 coloration //. myotkerina melanolaema, but is larger, has a much longer and 

 differently-shaped bill, and lacks the white dorsal patch and the white edges 

 to the upper wing-coverts. The female, however, is much more like that of 

 II. leucophrys, with which it shares the white nudcr-surface, but it differs by its 

 whitish lower mandible, by lacking the ferruginous superciliary stripe and by 

 the apical spots to the upper wing-coverts being much darker, about cinnamon 

 buff, and much less distinct. 



The dimensions of the specimens examined by me are as follows : 



1. Mus. Berlin. S ad., " Para." Type of M. lugubris I 'ah. 



2. „ Berlepsch. <? ad., Paricatuba, near Santarem, 



June 20, 1893. W. Schulz coll. . 



3. „ Tring. J ad., Borba, November 22, 1906 . 



4. „ ,, ? imm., Borba, November 20, 1906 



5. ,, Vienna, cf ad., Rio Madeira, one day's journey 



above Borba, November 23, 1S29. Natterer 

 0. „ Vienna. ? ad., same locality and same date „ 



7. „ ,, ? imm., Borba, March 3, ls30 . ,, 



8. „ „ ? ad., Borba, July 13, 1830. . „ 



9. „ Brit, ? ad., Borba, February 17, 1830 . „ 

 10. ,, Vienna, cf ad., "Rio Negro, im Arme Anave- 



hana,"Jnly . Natterer coll 70 411 IS „ 



These ten skins are, as far as I know, the only specimens in European 

 collections, from the localities it would appear that the species has a rather 

 limited distribution. I do not believe that the type really came from Para ; it is 

 more likely to have been obtained somewhere on the Lower Amazons. 



