•j~ \ New South American Birds, 



The tail is graduated, the first outer feather about three-quarters the 

 jth of tli" longest, the next intermediate. 



I in. : wing 1 | ; tail \\ ; bill ,'■' ; tarsi |. 



Habitat. "G iti, < luayana, Venezuela." 



■; in m v collection. 

 [\ was kindly presented to mc by l>r. R. P. Stevens, our fel- 



ight a c m of birds from near the 



ility above given, where he was superintending an important 

 1-mining enterprise. 

 /.'■ This is without doubt the Plumbeous Tody of 



Latham, from whom Gmelin compiled his description, and it 

 :. to bave escaped observation since that time. The 

 only recent notice 1 find of it is in Bonaparte's Consp. A v. under 

 ■rum, where he has "quid Todus plumbeus, Gm. ; Todv- 

 rum plumbeum. Gray;" it was therefore unknown to him. 

 As will be seen, it agrees closely with Latham's description. 

 lb : " Bill like Cinereous Tody? On comparing the 



bills of the t v. - they are strikingly alike. 



Ti imen came in spirits, to which is possibly due the 



iloring of the under parts. 

 Ti. . by Latham is Surinam. 



\\. Brarhygatba Ingnbris. (Sw.) 



In the collection made in Venezuela (on Prof. Orton's expedi- 

 tion) by Mr. W. l'>. Gilbert, I find a specimen of Brachygalba 

 obtained at Valencia, which I think is Galbula lugubris, Sw. < An. 



Men., p. 829). No Sped n of it appears tO have come 



under the notice of any naturalist since he described it in L833. 



In Jardine'a Contributions to Ornithology, 1852, Mr. Sclater 



Galbula inornata (afl ds placed in Brachygal 



which i by some ornithologists to be the same as 



I Mr. S pnopsis of GalbulidcB, published in l v e.">, 



I this ti: jies Swainson in- 



ribe under the name of G. lugubris, An. in Men. 



re two v< able points in which his de- 



