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agree witli typical '/'. jialmdium from 8.E. Brazil in liaving distinct greenish c;lgGS 

 to the ([uills and tail-feathers, but the}- are cdnsideralily smaller, in this respect 

 apjjroaching T. p. tnelanoj/tera. Most likely the l)irds from Para represent an 

 iindescrilicd race— at any rate they never belong to mclanopteru. 



Eighteen adnlt s]iecinieiis from S. I'aulo, Miuas, and Bahia {T. jjalmarum) 

 measure : al. '.til— 10:? ; cand. 78—82 mm. 



Four adults from rard : al. 02 — U6 ; cand. 71.1 — 77 mm. 



Nine adults from N.E. Peru (Xeberos, etc.) — coll. Bartlett — topotypical 

 T. p. melaiiopte.ru : al. 91 — 96 ; caud. 09 — 7^ mm. 



I have no time now to discuss at length the various subspecific forms of 

 T. palmarum, but I may remark that Mr. Ridgway * is ijuite mistaken in considering 

 7'. p. violilarata, Berl. & Tacz., as a synonym of T. p. melnnoptera. It is a very 

 distinct form, at once known by its nearly uniform, bright violaceous colour above 

 and below, and is evidently restricted to tlic western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador. 

 1 have now before me a series of fifteen specimens (and have seen others) which 

 fully bear out the characters assigned to the form by its describers. I may add that 

 the Tring Museum possesses a series of 120 specimens of the T. palmarum gronj) 

 which has been studied in this connection. 



13. Ramphocelus jacapa (L.). 



Tuiiuf/ru Jwdjia Linnaeus, ^'</.s^ Nal, xii. 1. (ITIJC) p. 313 (e.\ Edwards: .Suriuam— et ISrissou : 



Cayenne). 

 liamphiiiuehis jncajia Sclater & Salvir, P, Z. S. 1867. p. 571 (Me.\iana and Pai-a) : Layard, Ihis, 



1873. p. 379 (Pani). 



Two £?(?, 2. ii., 24. iv.— Nos. 1958, 2135; ? 22. i. 1904.— No. 1932. 



One male is quite indistinguishable from typical jacapa from Cayenne and 

 Surinam, while the other inclines towards H. J. eonncctens, but it still has a faint 

 crimson wash on the back, which is dull black in the last-named bird. Ii. j. 

 connectens, Berl. & Stolzm., is widely distributed in Brazil sonth of the Amazon : 

 in fact, all records of Ii. jacapa from that region pertain to the former. The l)irds 

 collected by Natterer in Goiaz and Mattogrosso and those shot by M. A. Robert 

 in Minas Geraijs are absolutely identical with topotypical specimens of Central Peru. 



14. Tachyphonus cristatus bruuneus (Spix). 



[Tanarjra cristala Gmelin, Syst. Nut. 1. ii. (1788) p. 898 (ex Brisson I'i BufFon — Cayenne).] 

 Tuimgra briiiiiica Spix, -Ic. Bras. ii. (1825) p. .17, tab. 49, fig. 2 = fj juv. (Rio de Janeiro). 

 Tiirhyphonux crhtaliis bmsiliriisix Sclater, Col. liiids Bril. .1/«s. xi. (188('i) p. 211 (Brazil), 

 Tachyphonus crUtulus Sclater & Salvin, /'. .?. .S. 18C7. p. 571 (Pard, May 1849. — "Agrees with 

 Brazilian specimens "). 



Two adult (?c? in perfect plumage, 13. i., 18. v. 1904.— Nos. 1937, 2175. 

 " Iris brun." 



I have also before me one cJ ad., collected by Prof. ISteere at Beiievides, near 

 Para. They agree best with a series of T. c. hrunnens from Pernambuco, Bahia, Kio 

 and S. Paulo. The crest is quite as full and long, but even darker, of a beautiful 

 fiery red. No. 1937, however, agrees in the colotir of the crest exactly with 

 sjieciiuens from more southern localities. The gular stripe is decidedly darker 

 ochraceous iu T. c. brimiieus than in the Paril examples, but one skin from S. Paulo 

 is scarcely different from the latter birds. 



• liinh yurtli and Middle AmcrUv, ii. (11102) p. oSf. 



