( 400 ) 



Wallace, and others have met with it. Schwauda forsvarded a good series frotn 

 Miritiha, Maranhao, to the iMniiich Musetioi. Miss Snethlage found it at Arumathena, 

 il. Tocantins,* and the late Mr. Hoffmanns obtained an adult male near Itaituba, 

 R. Tapajoz.t The great Austrian naturalist J. Natterer secured specimens at 

 Borba, on the right bank of the Madeira, as well as at Forte do Principe da 

 Beira and near the city of Mattogrosso, on the Rio Guapore.] 



:i4'.>. Pteroglossus humboldti ^\'agl. 



Pknif/lo-isits Iliiinhuhlli Wagler, Ny.-V. Ar. Genu.s Pteroglossus, sp. 4 (1H27. — -Brasilia" — Mus. 

 Monac. — descr. J ad.). 



No. 323. S ad., Calama, 3. viii. 1907.— Wing 127; tail i:>5; bill i).") mm. 



" Iris red, feet green, upper mandible yellow, culminal stripe, narrow basal 

 line and teeth black, lower mandible black excepting the yellow basal lamella."' 



In coloration this bird is practically identical with Wagler's type in the Munich 

 Museum, but slightly smaller (type: wing 132; tail 157; bill 104 mm). From 

 P. iiiscripfiis the two specimens ditfer in larger sizet and much longer bill, with 

 the lower mandible almost wholly black. It is very strange to find P. hnmboblti 

 in the same region where Xatterer had met with P. inscriptiis, for we had always 

 looked upon them as geographical representatives. P. humboldti is widely dis- 

 tributed in Upper Amazonia from Eastern Ecuador down to Peru and W. Brazil 

 (liio Purus, etc.). Calama is the most easterly locality as yet on record. 



3.")0. Pteroglossus beauharnaesii Wagl. 



I'teim/lossiis Beuiilianiiieiii Vfagier, hh li^.'i-J. p. L'SU (I8.i-'.—" Brasilia, prov. Pard"— typo now in 

 Munich Museum) ; HellmajT, Xor. Zoo!, xiv. p. 399 (Humaytha). 



Nos. 461, 404. ?? ad., Calama, 20. viii. 1907.— Wing 140, 142; tail 100; 

 bill 109, 97 mm. 



Nos. 582, 590. ?? ad., Jamarysinho, 22, 2."). i.x. 19n7.— Wing 140, 150; 

 tail 175, 177; bill 108 mm. 



" Iris dark red or brownish red, feet greeuish, bill : upper mandible red and 

 pale greeu, lower one dingy white, tip of both clear yellowish red. Bare space 

 round the eye pale blue." 



The specimens differ from the type and other Ujiper Amazouiau skins by the 

 brown spots on the cheeks and throat being absent or but faintly indicated. How- 

 ever, this may be an individual character. 



[351. Selenidera maculirostris gouldii (Xatt.). 



[PtciwjlosHus nuu;nlh-oHlrh Lichtenstein, Vtrr.. Ihihl. ISn-linrr Mh^. \k 7 (1823.— Brasil).] 

 P. GuuUtii Natterer, Pro.: Zoot. Soc. Loud. v. IS.ST. p. 41 (1«37.— Punt in Brazil); PeUulii, /.'■. 

 p. 238 (Borba). 



Right bank : Borba (Natterer). 



As already noticed by Pelzcln, the two sjiecimens obtained in the vicinity of 

 Borba have slightly longer bills and the black blotch at the base of the uiii)er 

 mandible more restricted than tyiiical I'ar^i birds The difference should be con- 

 firmed by additional material. 



• Journ.f. Ornith. 190S, p. G3(i. t IKllmayr, Xor. Zool. xiv. p. 21!. 



X Mcasurcracuts of /'. iMcri^itiis : - 



Three adult males . Wi.iK'lU- lliu ; (ail 134— 1H7; bill 80— 82 mm. 



Kivc a'lult tcmalcs . „ 110—117; „ 125—135; „ G5— 76 „ 



