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 I'M. Chiroxiphia regina Scl. 



CliiroTi/iliia reijina (Natterer MS.) Solatcr, Ann. .Uiiij. Xat. Hist. (2) xvii. p. 469 (1856.— Boiba, Rio 

 Madeira); Pelzeln, ?.--. p. 12'J (Borba) ; Hellmayr, Noi: Z,nl. xi v. 1907. p. 361 (Humaytha, 

 Paraiao). 



No. TiS. S poraJ., f'alaraa, IT. vi. 1007. "Iris reddish In-own, feet greyish 

 red, bill bhick."— Wins' 74 ; tail 30; bill 9 mm. 



No. 11). c? jnv., Galama, 11. vi. l'.)()7. " Iris dark red, feet light greyish red, 

 bill black."— wing 70 ; tail 34 ; bill 9J- mm. 



Nos. 32, 260, 334. ? ? ad., Calaraa, 13. vi., 24. vii., 5. viii. 1907. " Iris brown 

 or red, feet red, bill black."— Wing 07—70 ; tail 34 ; bill 9— 9i mm. 



No. 9.53. ? ad., Maruins, 28. vi. 190s. "Iris brown, feet dark red." — Wing 

 71 ; tail 36 ; bill 9i mm. 



The adnlt male has the black frontal baud fnlly as broad, and the crest as deep 

 golden yellow, as the specimens from the left bank (Humaytha) obtained by 

 Mr. Hoffmanns on his first jonrney in 1900. Those from Paraiso with narrower 

 black frontlet and more lemon-yellow crest, thongh in full breeding phimage, are 

 apparently not quite adnlt. This is enhanced by the fact that the young male, still 

 in the green juvenile plumage, has the crest of the same pale yellow hne. 



C. re(jiiiii is a perfectly distinct form, though it may prove to be merely a 

 geographical representative of the C. pareola group. Mr. De Witt Miller, in his 

 excellent monograph of the genus Chiroxiphia,* has suggested that C.regina might 

 be closely allied to C. napensis Miller, from Eastern Ecuador. On comjjarison of 

 the two species, I find this surmise to be quite correct. C. reyina differs from 

 C. p. pareola and C. p. atluntica, but agrees with C. napensis in its rather short 

 crest, dark aznre-blue mantle, and dark reddish (instead of yellow) legs and feet. 

 Unfortunately I have not seen the female of C. napensis. That of C. regina differs 

 at a glance from those of C. p. pareola and C.p. atlantica by having the upper parts 

 of a much brigliter olive-green, and the lower ones, including the under tail-coverts, 

 nearly nnil'orm oil-green. The rauge of C. reyina extends over the area comprised 

 between the Rio Solimoiins in the north, the Javarri to the west, and the Rio 

 Madeira to the east. No other species of Ghiro.eiphia is known to occur within 

 this district. 



14(1. Chiromachaei'is manacus purus (Bangs). 



[I'ipm maiuinis Linnaeus, Siixt. Xat. xii. 1. p. 340 (1766. — based on "The Blacli-capped Manakin," 



Edwards, (ilean. Nut. Hixt. \. p. 107. pi. 260 : Surinam, and on Brisson, Oni. iv. p. 442 : 



Cayenne).] 

 .Miiiiacua iiininirio iiiiriix Bangs, Pnir. Xnr Eiiijl. Zniil. CI. i. p. 36 (I.S90. — Santarem, on the Amazon 



River, Brazil). 

 Cluriiiiiai-liai'i/s iniiiiaruH (nee Linnaeus) Pelzeln, I.e. p. 130 (Borba, Engenho do Gama, Siio 



Vicente). 



No. 112. i ad., Calama, 27. vi. 1907.— Wing 52 ; tail 30 ; bill 9 mm. 



No. 004. (? ad., Jamarysinho, Rio Preto, 1. x. 1907. — Wing 52; tail 30; 

 bill 9 mm. 



Nos. 039, 652, 693. SS ad., S. Isabel, Rio Preto, 8, 9, 13. x. 1907.— Wing 

 51—52 ; tail 30 ; bill mm. 



In addition, I have examined Natterer's series in the Vienna Museum, con- 

 sisting of three adult males from Borba, a couple from Engenho do Gama, Rio 

 tiuapore, and a female from Sao Vicente. The specimens from the Rio Madeira 

 agree with a large suite from Para and Maranhao (Miritiba), in the Munich Museum, 



• Jlull. Amrr. Mii.i. A: II. Acw Vork x.\iv. 190S. pp. 3:)1-4I. 



