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 431. Harpiprion cayennensis (Gm.). 



Taiiliilus rnymicnsis Gm., S,/st. Nat. Ed. XIII. 1 (1788) p. 652 (ex BufE.— Cayenne). 



Altagracia : S S 2%. i. '98 (bis). 

 Quiribaua de Caicara : tJc? l-'i, 28. iv. 'OS. 



" Iris indian purple (dark iudiau pnrple) ; feet green (malachite green) ; bill 

 pea-green at tip, bottle-green at base." 



(Nos. 988(i, 9887, 10737, 10S57 Cherrie coll.) 

 Cangrejo, Canra R. : ? 26. xii. V.W) (Andre coll.). 



432. Phimosus nudifrons (Spix). 



Ibis nudifrons Spix, .Ic. Bins. II. (1824) p. CO PI. LXXXVI. (^hah. ad litora lacum fl. S. Francisci). 

 Ihis infvscata Licht., Verz. Doubl. (1823) p. 75 (Brasil)* nomen nudum ! 



Altagracia: SS ad. 31. xii., 30. xi., S <S juv. 13. (bis) xii. '97, 15. i. '98; ? ? juv. 

 25, 28, 31. xii. '97 ; ? ad. 15. i., S ad. 1. iii. '98. 

 Caicara : ? ? ad. 7. v., 15. iii. '98. 



? ? ad. : " Iris carmine ; feet dark sepia ; bill reddish liver-brown." 

 ? jnv. : " Feet dusky sepia ; bill wood-browu (reddish liver-brown), blackish 

 at tip ; skin about eye burnt carmine." 



(Nos. 8930, 9187, 9188, 9389, 9431, 9472, 9473, 9728, 9729, 10332, 10494, 

 10893, 10894 Cherrie coll.) 



SS ad. al. 285—280, cand. 124—126, culm. 118 —127, tars. 58 —62 mm. 

 cJ c? juv. „ 270— 260 „ 120—115 „ 126|— 117 „ 6oJ— 53 „ 

 ? ? ad. ,,273—263 „ 122—117 „ 109 „ o3i „ 



? ? juv. „ 262— 246i „ 110—104 „ 112—96 „ 53^— 52^ „ 

 The adult birds collected by Mr. Cherrie have the naked front and cheeks as 

 well as the bill uniform blood-red. There are no papillae on the front and cheeks, 

 but merely some transverse corrugations on the front. The somewhat lanceolate 

 feathers on the hindueck are mostly bottle-green or chalybeous, seldom with 

 amethyst jmrple gloss. They difl'er probably constantly from Brazilian birds which 

 have a yellow bill and chin (cf. Spix's description and a specimen from Porto Real 

 in the Tring Museum), and might form a northern subspecies. 



An adult bird from Paraguay (coll. Rohde) in Mns. H. v. B. differs in having a 

 great amount of corrugations or warts on the naked front and cheeks. The neck 

 feathers are decidedly lanceolate and elongated, and of a splendid amethyst red- 

 colour, changing to steel-green in a certain direction of light. The naked portions 

 of the head are apparently more of a yellowish brown-red, and the bill pale flesh- 

 coloured (al. 290, caud. 122, culm. 130, tars. 62 mm.). This Paraguay species is 

 apparently quite distinct, and as it wants a name we call it 



Phimosus azarae Berl. \, Hart. 



Specimens from Buenos Ayres (S. Martino, Blonte, collected by Paul Neumann, 

 in Tring Mus.) agree with Fit. azarae, those from the Kio Chaura in the Andes of 

 Merida with the Orinoco birds. 



* ]hi>i infn^cata Licht. is a nomen nudum ! It is true that Lii-hteustcin refers to Azara, and one 

 would Uiink that lie bad the intention to bestow a name on Azara's birti, in which case bis name might 

 be allowed to stand for the I'araguay species. But as he gives the habitat " Brasil." his nomen nuduju 

 becomes simply a synonym of the Brazilian species. 



