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 2811. Agyrtria albiventris (Less.). 



Omismya alhimilris Less., Hist. Nat. OU-.Uoiiches (\S->0) pp. xxxiv. 209, PI. LXXVI. (hah. "la 

 Guiana " sc. Cayenne). 



Altagracia : (?(? 5, 11 (bis), 13, Ifi, 19, 22. xi., 8, 11, 12, 17. xii. '97, (J, 7, 8, 

 12, 20. i. '98, ? ? 3, 18, 25. 26, 29. xi., 16, 20. xii. '97, 6, 7. i. '98. 



Caicara: cJc? 15, 25. ii., 1. vii., ? 8. i. '98, ? ? 15. ii., 6. vii., 8. viii. '98. 



Rio Catanapa : ? 26. xi. '98 (Cberrie). 



Maipnres ; c?(? 28 (bis) i., 6, 11,17, 20. xii. '98, 28, 30. i. '99, ? 29. xii. '98. 



" Iris dusliv ; bill dusky reddisb, blackish at tip (reddisb, extreme tip blackish, 

 black, reddisb at base of luacdible) ; feet blackish (dnsky)." 



(Nos. 8485, 8500, 8501, 8578, 8580, 8622, 862-<, 8664, 8720, 8745, 8778, 8854, 

 8879, 8926, 9012, 9100, 9166, 9254, 9268, 9305, 9306, 9555, 9556, 9576, 9577, 9591, 

 9661, 9750, 10056, 10086, 10946, 10966, 11030, 11059, 11060, 11088, 11142, 11348, 

 11362, 11423, 11503, 11550, 11559, 11776, 11777, 11778, 11801 Cberrie coll.) 



Ciiidad Bolivar : S 27. vii., c? 30. v., ? ? 23. vii., 18. viii. '98 (Klages). 



Snapure: 6 16. v., ? 17. v. "99 (Klages). 



M. Simon and Comte de Dalmas (Ornis 1901 p. 210) have accepted the term 

 ■maculata Vieill. for this species : bnt as there is already a Trorhilus maculntus of 

 Gmelin, Count Berlepscb considers this name as preoccupied. We now admit tbat 

 Ornismtja viridissima of Lesson * is quite uncertain, and Berlepscb proposes to call 

 our species Agyrtria albiventris (Less.), the habitat of Lesson's bird having been 

 given as Guiana, while Hartert, who does not accept the rule " once a synonym 

 always a synonym," would accept Vieillot's name maculata. 



A uest with two fresh eggs was taken at Caicara, 7 July, 189,s. It was 

 twenty feet from the ground at the tip of a large limb of a big tree in the open 

 savannah. The parent bird was much excited. It was shot (no. 11060) for 

 identihcatiou. The nest is a very neat, tiny structure of silky vegetable wool, 

 outwardly ornamented with jiale-greenish lichen. Egg 13-5 by 8*6 mm. 



281. Agyrtria milleri (Bourc). 



Trochilus milleri Bourc, P. Z. S. 1847 p. 43 (typ. ex Rio Negro, Br^sil). 



Cariben: c? 11. ix. '98. 



Caicara : cjc? ad. 8, 24, 25, 29. vi., 2. vii., ? ? 28, 29, 30. vi. '98. 



Nericagua : c? ad. 1. iv., " ? " 6. iv., ? ? juv. 1, 6, 7, 12, 22. iv. '98. 



Munduapo : "?" 18. ii., 16. ii. '99 (sex ?). 



" Iris seal-brown ; feet blackish ; bill black ; flesh white, basal two-thirds 

 mandible." 



(Nos. 10948, 10958, 10962, 10963, 10999, 11009, IIOIO. llOll, 11026, 11036, 

 11037, 11158, 11979, 12013, 12372, 12373, 12439, 12441, 12474, 1247.5, 12501, 

 12523 Cberrie coll.) 



Snapure : <? ? 20 v., 4. iv. '99 (Klages). 



Mountains west of Snapure : ? 8. v. 190(J (Klages). 



• It seems that Lesson, while descrihingand figuring his Ornimi/a riridisgima, had not the intention 

 to malce known a new bird, but to reproduce tlie Trochilus viridissimus of Vieillot, which is the same as 

 Psilomyater theredae (Silva). His description and figure leave some doubts, and the habitat is given 

 as " Bresil." 



