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 HU. Tityra cayana (L.). 



Lniihis an/diius Linn., Siist. Nut. Ed. XII. i. (1766) p. 1H7 (ex Briss. — Cayenne). 



Maipures: S <S ad. 31. xii., 22. xi., 31. i. ; ¥ ? 22, 31. xii. '98; 31. i. '99. 

 " Iris seal ; feet slate-grey ; bill, basal half reddish purple, tip of maxilla black, 

 tip of mandible slate. ?, bill, basal half rose-pink, tip of maxilla blackish, tip of 

 mandible slate." 



Nos. 11316, 115S1, 11604, 11065, 11808, 11809. 



Suapure : c? cj ? ? , February, April, March (Klages). 



La Pricion, Caura River: S ad. 2. ii. 1901 (erroneously marked " ? ") 

 (E. Andrd). 



192. Tityra erythrogenys (Selby). 



Psaris erythrogeni/s Selby, Zool. Jourii. II. (1826) p. 48:rl (Deac. J , hab. Pernambuco, Brazil). 



Rio Catanapa : c^ ? ad. 26. xi. '98. 



Perico: ? ad. 25. ix. '98. 



Maipures : <S <S 28. i. '99, 14. xii. '98 ; ? 14. xii. '98. " Iris seal ; feet dusky 

 slate ; bill above black, slate below." 



(Nos. 11227, 11346, 11347, 11407, 11408, 11787 Cherrie coll.) 



Suapure : c? ¥ 7. iv. 1900. " Iris dark browu ; feet black ; maxilla and anterior 

 margin of mandible black, mandible and an irregular patch on each side of the base 

 of the maxilla light blue-grey " (S. M. Klages). 



It is very strange that the large southern T. inquisitor Licht. (Typus ex " San 

 Paulo," Brasilia merid.) has generally been confounded with the very different 

 northern form, T. erythrogenys (Selby) (Typus ex " Pernambuco," Brasilia orient, 

 septentr.). 



Specimens from Minas (A. Roliert coll.) and a trade skin from South Brazil 

 in Tring Museum, wliich we consider to be the same as Lichtenstein's inquisitor, 

 are much larger. The upper surface of the females is more washed with brown 

 and more heavily spotted ; the males have a large pure white area on the hindneck 

 between the black crown and the grey back. 



The Orinoco and Suapure specimens, as well as skins from Demerara and 

 Lagunillas, Venezuela, in Tring Museum, are considerably smaller. The back 

 of the females is grey, hardly washed with brownish at all ; the males have no 

 conspicuous white area between the black caj) and the grey back, and the black 

 reaches a little farther down towards the back. 



Minas : $$ wing 113, 116, tail 71, tars. 21, bill 22 mm. 



Minas : ? wing 114, tail 09, tars. 21, bill 22 ^ mm. 



Orinoco and Guiana : 3 cJt? ad. wing 102, 105, 108 ; tail 64, 64, 06 ; tars. 19, 

 19, 19i; bill 19, 19, 20i mm. 



Orinoco : ¥ ad. wing 102, tail 65, tars. 20, bill 19 mm. 



Lanius inquisitor Licht., Verz. Doubl. p. 50 (1823) (Typ. " San Paulo") is the 

 proper name for the southern species, although the author omits measurements. 



Psaris jardinii Swains., Zoo^. ///., ser. 2, i. (1829), pi. 35 and text, is apparently 

 a synonym of inquisitor. The locality is uncertain (interior of Brazil Ij, but the 

 statement that it is as large as Tityra cayana and the white patch on the hindneck 

 on the figure prove it to belong to the large form. 



Exetastes alhinuchus Cab. &_Heine, Mus. Rein. ii. (1860), p. 83 (" Brasilien"!) 

 is also synonymous to this form, as far as we can- make out without an actual 

 comparison of the various types ; in any case it does not belong to erytkrogenys. 



