( 334) 

 lf*4. Deconychura loug:icauda (Pelz). 



Dendrocincla iongicaiiilu Pelzeln, Zur On,. Bins. i. p. 60 (1867.— Borba ; Marabitanas and Barra, 



Rio Negro). 

 Deconi/rhura loiigicauda Hellmayr, Xnr. Zo.,l. xiv. pp. .367, 368 (Borba). 



No. 102. ¥ atl., Talama, 3. vii. I'.m:. "Iris dark bniwii, feet bhiisli black, 

 bill black, below greyish." — Wing 9: ; tail 94 ; bill 23i mm. 



Slightly smaller than Pelzeln's original examples in the Vienna Mnseam, but 

 perfectly similar in coloration. The latter measure as foUow.s : — 



Wing. Tail. Bill. 



1. No. 15907. cJ ad., Borba, December 29, 1829. Type 



of .species ........ 



2. No. 1590(3. 3 ad., Barra, May (!, 1833 . 



3. No. 15904. (S ad., Marabitanas, Febrnary 28, 1831 . 



4. No. 15905. ad., Barra. May 4, 1833 . 



[195. Deudrocincla fuliginosa (V'ieill.). 



Demlnicopiis fulit/innisus Vieillot, Noue. Dtrl. xxvi. p. 117 (1818. — ex Levaillant : Cayenne); cf 



Me'negaux & Hellmayr, Mem. Sue. iJ'Hist. Nat. Auluii xix. 1906. p. 119 (crit.). 

 Dendrnciacia fumiijnia Pelzeln, l.r. p. 42 (Borba). 

 D. fiiUginosa Hellmayr, yoc. Zuol. xiv. p. 368 (Humaytha). 



Hnmaytha (Hoffmanns), Borba (Natterer). 



I have e.xamined Natterer's two skins from Borba, and fonnd them to agree 

 with others from (^'ayenne (cf Nov. Zool. xii. 1905. p. 280). Mr. Oberholser* 

 gives the range of D. fidigiiwsa as : " Lower Amazonia, south to Bahia, north 

 to British Gniana " ; bnt I suppose " Bahia " is a pen-slip for Para, thi.s being 

 the most southerly established locality on the Brazilian east coast. I have seen 

 specimens from the following localities : Cayenne, French Guiana (the type in the 

 Paris Museum ; a second e.xample in Vienna) ; Roraima, R. Rnpuuuni (H, Wbitely ; 

 Mus. Berlepsch and Tring); Manaos (Natterer) ; Diamantina, Tapaj6z (topotype of 

 D. rufo-olhacea Ridg.w. : U.S. Mus. Wash.); Pard (Natterer, Wallace, Steere, 

 Robert, etc.); Borba (Natterer); Humaytha (Hoffmanns). There is considerable 

 individual variation in the series, but I am unable to make out any geographical 

 races.] 



196. Dendrocincla menila (Licht.). 



Dendrucolaptes .yenila Lichtenstein, Ahhandl. Akarl. Berlin a. d. Jahreii 1818-19. p. 208 (1820.— 



Cayenne : Mus. Berlin). 

 Dendi-neim-la inerida Pelzeln, l.r. p. 42 (Borba, Salto Theotonio) ; Hellmayr, Xov. Zool. xiv. p. 369 



(Humaytha). 



Nos. 290, 303. d' ad., d" imm., Calama, 29, 30. vii. 190:.— Wing 104 ; tail 

 87, 89 ; bill 26 mm. 



Nos. 63, 233. ? ? ad., Calama, 17. vi., 15. vii. 19o:.— Wing 99, 100 ; tail 82 ; 

 bill 24 mm. 



" Iris grey or greyish brown, feet plumbeous, bill black, below grey." 



The three adult birds have the lower mandible e.xcept the toraiae pale yellow, 

 while in the immature male it is mainly dusky. Tiie Calama series is decidedly 

 larger and darker than a single uusexed Cayenne specimen (S. Laurent-du-Maroni, 

 Le Monlt coll., Munich Museum). However, several examples from Fard, Caara, 



• Proc. Acad. ifat. Sci. PliUad. 1904. p. 453. 



