( 288 ) 



The series fully corroborates what I have said about the distinguishing 

 characters of P. c. coronatiis and P. c. siiperciliaris. Iii addition to the differ- 

 ences mentioned Lc, the rufescent brown edges to the rectrices are another point 

 that will serve to recognize the former race. The adult males have a large golden 

 yellow coronal [latch bordered laterally by a broad tawny stripe, whereas in the 

 female and young male the whole jiilonni is fawny ochraceous. Cheeks and under 

 parts are always maize-yellow, with a buH'y brown wash on chest and sides. 



92. Todirostrum maculatum signatum Scl. & Salv. 



[Toihis maculittiis Desmarest, Hist. Nul. Taiiguras, etc., pi. 70 (1805.— " Guiaae," so. Cayenne).] 

 Todirostrum signatum Selater & Salvia, lOis 1881. p. 267 (1881.— N.E. Peru). 



Nos. 102, 147. Adult, juv., Calama, 24. vi., 2. vii. 1907.— Wing 4.=., 43A ; tail 

 35, 32; bill 14, 12 mm. 



No. 848. c? ad, Marmellos, 22. xii. 1907.— Wing 47 : tail 35 ; bill 14 mm. 



"Iris yellow (brown in No. 147, juv.), leet plumbeous, bill black, below 

 grey." 



The adult birds agree perfectly with several toputypical specimens from North- 

 Eastern Pern (Nanta). A series from the Rio Napo (Wiener coll., Paris Mnseum), 

 the examples obtained by Natterer on the Rio Negro and Rio Branco,* as well as 

 skins from Teffe, Rio Jurua, and Itaituba, west bank of Tapajoz, belong likewise 

 to the same race. All of these many specimens differ from a good series of true 

 T. m. macuhdiaii, from Cayenne, Surinam, and British Guiana, by having the 

 feathers of the forehead ami vertex clear slate-grey with small dusky discs, and 

 mostly with narrow white lateral edges ; while iu the typical form, the front 

 and forepart of the crown are distinctly black, with the white edges more 

 pronounced. 



T. m. siqnatam has a much wider range than was hitherto supposed. la 

 fact all the specimens I have seen except the Guianau ones proved to belong to 

 this race. I have examined examples from the following localities : Nauta (4), 

 Iqnitos (1), Rio Napo (0), Teff6 (1), Rio Madeira (3), Itaituba (l),t Rio Jurmi (1) ; 

 Rio Negro : Barcellos (4), C'arvoeiro (3), Forte do Rio Branco (1). 



T. m. maculatum (Desm.) is evidently confined to the coast district of Cayenne, 

 Surinam, and British Guiana (Bartica Grove). It may, however, be that the birds 

 from Para, Mexiana, Tocantins, and Santarem are also referable to the typical race, 

 but as yet I have not seen skins from any of these localities. 



93. Todirosti-um clirysocrotaphum Strickl. 



Tudirostrum clirijsocrulnphum Strickland in Cuntrii. to Oniitli. ISiO, Iltustr. Ornith. p. 48. pi. (49). 

 fig. sup. (1850.— Peru). 



No. 830. tJ imm., Marmellos, 19. xii. 1907. " Iris dark brown, feet plumbeous, 

 bill black, below dark grey."— Wing 4Ui ; tail 30 ; bill 12* mm. 



Identical with a Bolivian sjaecimen, except that the hind-crown is slightly 

 washed with greenish olive, and the auricular patch blackish olive instead of deep 

 black, both apparent signs of immaturity. 



New to the fauna of Brazil. 



• T. maculatum Felzelu, 2ur Orn. Bras. ii. p. 101. 



f Miss Snethlage (Journ.f. Urn. 190S. p. 501) erroneously refers the Tapaj6z birds to T. tiiaaitutiivi, 

 C'f. my remarks in iVw. Jioul. xiv. 1907. p. 11. 



