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 423. Pipile cumanensis (Jiic<].)- 



Cvax oiunaiwnsi'i Jacq., Brt/tr. (1784) p. '25 (" Am Orinokoflusse bey Kumana"). 



Munduapo: SS 15, 21. ii.; ? ? 'J, 17, 25. ii. '99. 



Nericagua : ? 25. iii. ; c?(? 31. iii., 6, 13. iv. '99. 



" Iris chestnut browu ; feet bright brick-red ; bill black (slate black) at tip ; 

 pearl blue from nostril and angle of gouys (anterior point of nostrils and gonys) 

 to base where colour blends with pale pearl-grey of the bare skin on the sides of 

 face ; chin and upper throat azure blue ; colour darkening to slate-black at lower 

 part of bare neck and on wattle." 



(Nos. 11876, 11986, 12046, 12247, 12328, 12438, 12504, Cherrie coll., one 

 without number.) 



La Pricion, Canra K. : 5 S d Jan., Feb., 1901 (E. Andrt?). 



Nicare, Caura R. : S 18. i. 1901 (E. Andre). 



424. Odontophorus gujanensis (Gm.) (?) 



Tetnio fjujanensis Gm., Syst. Xut. I. '1 (178!;!) p. 7i)7 (ex Buff, and Lath,, " Cayenne et Guiana." 

 We take Cayenne as the typical locality). 



Snapure : " cj '" 17. vii. '99. " Iris light brown ; feet dark grey ; bill liluck ; 

 bare skin on foce light flesh-red " (Khiges). 



This specimen agrees with skins from British Guiana, except that the crown 

 and crest are brown, not chestnut, the throat and sides of head not chestnut, but 

 greyish brown, mottled with blackish. The bird is moulting. Cayenne skins 

 should be compared (Hartert). 



425. Eupsychortyx sonnini (Temm.). 



Pcnli.c Soimitii Temm., Hist. Nat. tifeii. ties Pii/enns it lies Galliiiae. III. (1815) p. 4.51, P. Soiminii 

 t. c. p. 737. (Guiana, sc. Cayenne, ex Sonnini's edit, de Buffon.) 



Altagracia : cJ c? ad. 12. xi., 5. xii. (bis) '97, 4 (bis), 7, 15. i. '98, (sex not 

 marked) (S S ad.) 25. xi. '97, 17. i. '98; cfc? semi-ad. 10. xi. '07 (bis), 6. i. '98; 

 ? ? 0, 12, 14 (ter) i. '98. 



" Iris Vandyke brown (sepia-brown, raw umber) ; feet blackish slate (dirty 

 whitish, dusky whitish) ; bill dusky (black)." 



(Nos. 8083, 8650, 8651, 8652, 8838, 9038, 0040, 9495, 9496, 9497, 9498, 9499, 

 9539, 9540, 9562, 9658, 9659, 9727 Cherrie coll.) 



We have not been able to compare a series from ('ayenne, but our Orinoco 

 specimens agree on the whole very well with specimens collected in British Guiana 

 by the late H. Whitely, and with others from Northern Venezuela in Mns. Tring. 

 The comparison of a large series of fully adult birds from the Orinoco with an 

 efpial series from Cayenne might possildy result in a subspecitic separation of two 

 forms, but at present we are not justified to make a separation. The individual 

 variation, apparently more or less due to age is very great in this and other 

 Eitpgi/f'/io/ii/x. One adult cJ from Altagracia can hardly be separated from the 

 form called particristatus.* The latter should only be considered as a subspecies 

 of E. sonni/i/. 



* Ortij.t parvh-riHtatiis Ooukl, P.Z.H. 181.T p. lOG (Bogota). 



