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Iris marked as "jauue-orauge " and "greuat," "bruu'" in the young. 



These specimens, as well as an old male, collected by Steere at Beuevides, 

 have the thighs bright green and no yellow on the tail ; the S ad. shows only slight 

 yellow margins on the tips of the two outer tail-feathers. 



-/-". leucogaster seems to be strictly confined to the vicinity of Para, at least it is 

 not known to occur farther west. On the great southern affluents of the Amazons 

 F. xantkomcriiis (Scl.) takes its jilace. 



84. Deroptyus accipitrinus fuscifrons n. subsp. 



[PsiUai-us iicdpitriiiiis\jmu-ie\iSi, filial. Sat. xii. 1 (17li(j) p. 148 (ex Edwards, Brisson, etc. — "in 



India" — errore ! We substitute Cnyeinu; as typical locality).] 

 Psitlaciis aci-ijiihiiius (nee Linni') Spix, .^ c. Bias, i. (1K24) p. 44. tab. xxxii'. (Villa Nova — specimen 



examined). 

 Piijiiids mcipitrinus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bruail. iii. ( ISO'J) p. 205 (part. : Para — specimen examined). 



3 ad., 19. iii. 19U4. No. 2U2i). " Iris jauue." 



¥ ad., 3. ii. 1904. No. 1901. " Iris jauue-vert." 



¥ jr., 21. iii. 1904. No. 2021. " Iris janne." 



In addition to the above, there is in the Tring Museum an adult S , collected 

 by Steere <at Benevides, near Panl. I compared also two specimens in the Munich 

 Museum, one of which was taken near Villa Nova, on the mouth of the Amazon, 

 and figured by Sjiix, I.e. The other, collected by Natterer near Paru, was obtained 

 in exchange from the Vienna Museum. 



These six specimens differ from typical I>. accipitrinus, of which a series of 

 twenty-three skins has been compared,* in lacking the coppery or rosy red patches 

 on the base of the outer tail-feathers and in having the whole forehead and crown 

 uniform dusky or only slightly mottled with brownish white. The ground-colour 

 of the sides of the head, too, is considerably darker brown. There seems to be no 

 difference in size between the two forms. The above difference being quite constant, 

 I propose to call the Fa>\i form 



Deroptijus accipitrinus fascifrons n. subsp. 



Similis D. a. accipitrino (Linn.), sed margine frontali multo obscuriore (uigri- 

 cante nee fumoso), pileo fusco-lirunneo maculis sordide albescentibus sparsim variegato 

 (minime omnmo albido), fundo in lateribus capitis saturatiore necnon rectricibus 

 lateralibus absque macula basali cuprea primo visn distinguendus. 



Habitat: Ad ripas fluminis Amazonun iuferioris projje pagos ParA et Villa 

 ^oca dictos. 



Typus in Mus. Tring: 6 ad., Igarape-Assu, Para, 50 m, March 19, 1904. 

 A. Robert coll., No. 2020. 



I examined iu the British Museum the specimens from Maranhao and Sarayacu 

 in East Ecuador, and found them identical with my new form. Salvadori already 

 stated the differences. The locality " iSarayai;u," however, seems to me to be very 

 doubtful. 



* 2 Cayenne— JIus. Jlonac. ; (i River Tacutu 'and li. Essequibo— Mus. lieilcpscb and Tiing; 2 

 Caura K., -Venezuela — Mus. Triug ; 1 Manaos — Mus. Vindob. ; 2 lUo Negro— Mus. Viudob. ; 1 Surinam — 

 5Ius, Vindob.; 2 witbout locality — Mus. 11. v. B. et Triug ; 7 froui iJrit. Guiana iu Mus. Brit. 



