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La Pricion, Canra River: ? 18. i. lOol ; ? 5. ii., <$ 4. ii. (erroneously sexed 

 "¥"), ? 18. ii., df (se.xed " ? ") 10. xii. I'JOU (E. Andre). S "Iris chestnut ; beak 

 black, except at gape of lower mandilile, whicli is silvery grey; feet black" 

 (Andre). 



Hartert has compared the Muudnajio and t'aiira River specimens with the types 

 of G. rothschildi Bartl. (now in the Tring Mnseum), and found that they belong to 

 the same form, which differs from typical (Brazilian) cyanea in its longer and 

 straigliter bill, longer wing, and slightly wider and briglder blue forehead. 



79. Oryzoborus crassirostris (Gm.). 



Lo.rin rrassirnstris Gm., Syst. A'ut. I. 1. (17HX) p. HO'J (ex loc. inc. Mus. Tunstall. We accept as 

 typical babit.it Cayenne). 



Qniribana de Caicara : cf (ad.) 31. iii., S (ad.) 2. iv., S (ad.) 11. iv., "c? juv." 

 (in brown plumage) 7. vi. <S ad. : " Iris seal-brown ; feet dusky slate ; bill dusky 

 greyish horn-colour, or horn-colour, pinkish ou mandible." 



(Nos. 10585, 10.589, 10695, 1O920 Cherrie coll.) 



(f juv. " Bill blackish slate." 



So. Oryzoborus angolensis (L.). 



Loxia angolensis Linn., Syst. Nut. Ed. XII. (1766), I., i. p. 30.3 (ex Edw. — "Angola" errore. We 



take as the typical habitat Surinam). 

 Loxia tnrridd Scopoli, Ann. I. p. 140 (1769 !). 

 Oryzohurus torridus : Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XII. p. 77 (1888). 



Altagracia : S ad. (errore "?") 27. xii., "c? juv." 20. xi., <S (juv.) 10. xi. 

 Caicara : (? ad. 24. x. " Iris seal ; feet dusky smoke-grey ; bill black." 

 Quiribana de Caicara : ? 5. iv. (Cherrie). 

 (Nos. 8547, 8760, 9127, 10588, 10016, 11204 Cherrie coll.) 

 Suapnre : cJc? ad. 3. iv., c? ad. 4. iv., -i ad. 2(i. i., "J juv." 3. iv., ? 3. iv. 

 " Iris brown ; bill and feet black " (Klages). 



81. Sporophila grisea (Gm.). 



Loxia grisea Gmelin, Si/sl. Xiif. I., 1 (1788) p. 857 (ex Buff.— " Virginia" errore. We wish to 

 fix Cayenne as the typical habitat.). 



Altagracia : c? ad. 25. i., c? ad. 27. i., 6 ad. 29. i., cjc? ad. 18. xi., d 10. xi., 

 <S ad. 24. xi., <S ad. 2. xii., S ad. 3. xii., 6 ad. 27. xii., tj juv. 11. xi., t? juv. 27. xii., 

 ? 27. xi., ? 14. xii. "J : Iris seal-brown or dark sepia; feet slaty; bill pale 

 whitish or flesh-colour. ? : Iris and feet dnsky ; bill blackish or black." (("herrie.) 



(Nos. .8545, 8564, 8505, S681, 8703, .s704, &1750, 8N33, S.S95, 897ii, 9001, 9101, 

 9104, 9105, 9106, 9196, 928.5, 9401, 9402, 94o3, 9647, 9803, 9S49, 9896, 9993 

 Cherrie coll.) 



(Jaicara: S not quite ad. 28. i. '98 ; S juv. 7. vii. '98. (Nos. 11003, 11003 

 Cherrie coll.) 



Suapnre : ^ ad. 22. xii., S ad. 27. xii. "d : Iris brown ; feet dark grey ; bill 

 bone-yellow with a roseate tinge, lightest on the mandible " (Klages). 



The c? from Caicara (no. 11U03) difters from the common style as follows: 

 the ashy grey of the body is of a darker shade, more schistaceons, esiiecially on 

 the crown, throat and chest. The latter parts are variegated with blackish spots, 

 and the throat with white. The posterior middle wing-coverts show white spots 



