REMARKS ON CATHARUS BERLEPSCHI LAWR. 

 ICy ROBERT RIE>(.:WAY. 



Having examined the type specimen of this species (described on 

 the preceding page of this volume), I fully agree with Mr. Lawrence as 

 to its distinctness from C.fuscater, of which I have examined, besides 

 the type (from Colombia), a good series from Costa Kica. The differ- 

 ences pointed out by Mr. Lawrence appear to be constant, since Mr. 

 Seebohm remarks (c/. Cat. B. Brit. Mus., v, p. 285) that "examples from 

 Ecuador average shorter in the wing than those from Veragua, but 

 longer in the tail," and that "they are also paler on the under part, 

 especially the chin and throat." It would also appear from the descrip- 

 tions given in Taczanowski's Ornithologie du Perou that Peruvian ex- 

 amples agree with those from Ecuador in the general whitish color of 

 the lower parts, the breast being only faintly washed with grayish. 

 The synonymy of C. herlepschi is as follows: 



Catharus fnscatcr ScL., P. Z. S. 1859, 136, 324 (Pallatanga, w. Ecuador) ; Catal. 

 1861,2 (do,).— ScL. & Salv. P. Z. S., 1866,69 (Ecuador); Norn. Neotr. 

 1875, 1 (part; Ecuador).— (?) Taczan.,P. Z. S. 1874, 504 (Chilpes, ccutr. 

 Peru); 1379, 222 (Tambillo. n. Peru ; descr.egg); 1882, 4 (Chachapoyas, 

 n. e. Peru) ; Ora. du Per. i, 1884, 483.— Salv. & Godm., Biol. Centr. Am., 

 Aves, i, 1879, 5 (part; Ecuador).— Seebohm, Cat.B., Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 

 235 (part; Quito, Ecuador). 



Hahiiat. — Ecuador and Peru. 



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