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Adult birds from the Rio Madeira agree with the type in the Munich Mnseum. 

 The tn-o young ones from Calama have the bill blackish, and, like Peruvian 

 examples, the legs and feet pale fleshy brown. Cf. my remarks, /.c, pp. 349-5(1. 



[58. Cypsnagra ruficollis pallidigula Hellm. 



Cf. .Vol'. Zoo!, xiv. p. 330 (Hutnayth.a ). 



Left bank : campos of Humaytha (Hoffmanns). Also occurring in Ceara, 

 N.E. Brazil.] 



60. Nemosia pileata (Bodd.). 



Tanagra pileala'Boddia.BTt, Tabl. PL col. p. 45 (1783. — ex D'Aubenton, PI. enl. 720. fig. 2 ^^ (J ad. : 



Cayenne). 



Nos. 826, 828, 834. Si ad., Marraellos, 18, 19, 20. xii. 1007. " Iris and feet 

 yellow, bill black."— Wing 67—70 ; tail 45J— 49; bill 12 mm. 



Nos. 827, 829. S <S imm., Marmellos, 18, 19. xii. 1907. " Iris and feet yellow, 

 bill black, lower mandible yellowish grey." 



No. 819. ? ad., Marmellos, 17. xii. 1907. "Bill black, below yellowish grey." 

 —Wing 64 ; tail 43; bill 11 A mm. 



Rather brighter on the upper parts, bnt not otherwise different from Bahia 

 specimens. 



N. pileata, thongh widely distributed in Amazonia and Brazil, is very localized, 

 frequenting exclusively the " campos" district.s. First record from the Rio Madeira. 



60. Hemithraupis flavicollis centralis (Hellm.). 



[Nemosia flavicolUs TieiUot, Nouv. Did. xxii. p. 491 (1818. — " I'Am^rique mcridionale").] 

 Nemosia JIuricoUis centralis Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 350 (1907. — Hum.iytha, Rio Madeira). 

 N. flavicollis (neo Vieillot) Pelzein, Zur Orn. Bras. iii. 1869. p. 215 (Eugenho do Oama). 



No. 886. ? ad., Calama, 30. iii. 1908. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill bluish grey, 

 below paler."- Wing 65 ; tail 52; bill 13 mm. 



On his first expedition to the Rio Madeira, in 1906, Mr. Hoffmanns obtained 

 an adult male, the type, at Humaytha, left bank. In the male sex, //./'. 

 centralis differs at a glance from all the other races of the Jlaricollis group by 

 the deep velvety black coloration of the upper parts. The female may be dis- 

 tino-nished by its darker, dull olive upper parts, and rather brighter 3-elIow belly. 

 In size and in the largo, rather strong bill it resembles the female of //. /. 

 melanoxantlia. 



A review of the various geographic races is given in Xov. Zool. xiv. pp. 350-53. 

 H. f. centralis inhabits the basin of the Madeira and its tributaries. 



61. Thlypopsis sordida amazonum Scl. (?). 



[Nemosia sordida Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in Mag. Zool. cl. ii. p. 28 (1837.— Yuracares, 



rep. Boliviana — type examined ; cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. pp. 310-11).] 

 Thlypopsis amnzowim Sclater, Cat. Birds Bril. Mi(.<!. xi, p. 229 (1886.— Lower Ucayali, East Peru) 

 Nemosia fulvpsrens Pelzein, Zur Orn. Bras. iii. ISriit. p. 215 (pt. ; Rio Madeira).* 



No. 901. J fere ad., Maruins, 3. vi. 1908. "Iris dark greyish brown, feet 

 plnrabeons, bill blackish, below grey." — Wing 64 ; tail 51 ; bill 1 1| mm. 



This specimen differs from an adult male in Count Berlepsch's collection 



• Encneoiislv inclurlert among the localities of N. r. sordida in Nttr. Zool. xiii. p. 311. — flatterer's 

 specimen is no longer in the Vienna Museum. 



