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P. ohscura Pelz.,* from the Para district, is, as pointed ont by Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater,t quite distinct frocu P. viridis, and may be distinguished by the following 

 characters. The bill is shorter, with the upper mandible deeper, stouter, and more 

 strongly curved, and is of a blackish brown colour with but a few small light spots 

 here and there. The feet are blackish (not pale greenish or yellowish green as in 

 P. viridis). While in P. riridis the whole foreneck is covered with brilliant violet- 

 bine feathers, there is just a faint purplish sheen to be seen in P. obscura. 

 In the latter species the mantle, too, is much darker, chocolate-brown with 

 scarcely any green, and the nppsr wing-coverts show bat a few narrow 

 apical bands of dull blue or green, while there are broad, metallic green and 

 purplish bine tips in P. viridis. The Munich Museum is indebted to Miss Snethlage 

 for a fine specimen of P. ohscura. 



Until Mr. HotFiuanns procured his series the type discovered by Spix and the 

 two females obtained by Natterer were, as far as I am aware, the only specimens of 

 P. viridis existing in European Museums. The species is with certainty only 

 known from the right bank of the Rio Madeira (Cachoeira de Guajaragnai,'n and 

 Salto Theotonio^Natterer ; Maruins — Hoffmanns). Spix's original locality Villa 

 Nova (north bank of the Amazons, near the junction of the llio Xingu) is qnite 

 unreliable, for the type-specimen had evidently been kept in confinement. 

 Wallace's record % of P. viridis being found in the forests of Para refers, of course, 

 to P. obscura. 



The series from Maruins has been divided between the Munich Mnseum j,nd 

 Count Berlepsch's collection. 



444. Harpiprion cayennensis (Gm.). 



Tantalus cayftmemis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. (sbi (1789.— ex D'Aubentou, PI. enl. 820 : 

 Cayenne). 



No. 110. S ad., Calama, 20. vi. 1907.— Wing 30.5 ; tail 155 ; bill 130 mm. 

 No. 557. ? ad., Jamarysinho, 17. ix. 1907.— Wing 295 ; tail 160 ; bill 110 mm. 

 Nos. 933, 1039. 3 ad., i imra., Maruins, 19. vi., 19. vii. 1908.— AVing 285, 

 276; tail 150 ; bill 118, 115 mm. 



" Iris brown, feet light green, bill dark green or greenish dusky." 



445. Ardea cocoi Linn. 



Ardea Cocoi Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. .xii. 1. p. 237 (176G.— ex Brisaon, etc. : "Cayana"). 



No. 1033. (J imra., Maruins, 17. vii. 1908.—" Iris yellow, feet black, bill dark 

 grey, lower mandible yellow." 



AVidely distributed in South America. 



446. Agamia agami (Gm.). 



Ardea Agvnl Gmelin, .Sysf. Nat. 1. i. p. 620 (1789,— ex BufiEon & D'Aubenton, PI. enl. 859: 

 Cayenne) ; Pelzeln, l.r. p. 301 (Matogrosso, etc.). 



No. 1035. ? juv., Maruins, l'.». vii. 1908.— "Iris yellow, feet grey, bill bhiok, 

 below greyish brown." 



• Sitzungsher. math.-naturwlss CI. Akad. Wisscnsck. Wh'n xxiv. 1807. p. 373. 



t Ilh IfVii. |)p. 520-4. tab. .xi. 



i Travels on the Amazons and Rio Neffro 1853. p. 473. 



