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NOTES ON NEOTROPICAL BIRDS. 



26. Chlorostilbon pucherani (BouBC. & Mui.s.) ex Trea Marias; name correct, lo- 

 cality erroneous. . 



No. 25856, Tres Marias Islands, July, 1861 (John Xantus). Type of Ch. inaularis 

 Lawi;. 



This specimen is certainly referable to CM. pucherani, as already 

 pointed out by Messrs. Elliot and Ridgway. It is a young male in not 

 quite mature plumage. The makeup of the skin is that of all the skins 

 received from Rio de Janeiro, and the habitat, Tres Marias Islands, is 

 no doubt erroneous. 



27. Chlorostilbon angustipennis (Fbas.) female, ex Cartago=CR salvini (Cab & 



II KINK). :' 

 No. 42986, female, Cartago, January, 1866 (J. Cooper). 



I am not quite sure if this is really a female of CM. assimilis Laws 

 united by Mr. Elliot (incorrectly as I believe) with his "angustipennis" 

 .(not of Fraser). Before having- seen an adult male of Chi. assimilis from 

 Costa Rica I am rather inclined to believe the female from Cartago to 

 be referable to Chi. salvini (Cab. & Heine). It has a uniformly black 

 upper mandible, but the basal half of the under mandible is flesh-col- 

 ored, while it is uniformly black in the male of CM. assimilis. 



28. Chlorostilbon angustipennis (Fbas.) male, juvenile, ex Pebas = CK daphn 

 No. 55382, male, Pebas, Peru (Orton). 



This is not angustipennis of Elliot, nor of Fraser, but belongs to the 

 section ot Chlorostilbon with a square tail, of which Chlprasinus is the 

 type. I believe the young male from Pebas entitled to the name of CM 

 daphne « Bourc." Gould, of which CM. peruanus Gould is probably a 

 synonym. 



The following notes relate to some other types of birds of different 

 families belonging to the U. S. National Museum, which were kindly 

 sent to me for examination in 1886 : 



L C N mi ;n.! ^ y v ChUS ? revi P emiis LAWB.=tf. nuchalis Cab. juvenile. ! 



No. 109509 .Venezuela, Krider; type of C. trevipentis Lawb., Ann. Lye. N. H 

 New Fork, vm (1866), page 344. ' 



This is certainly a very young bird of C. nuchalis Cab. I ff ot a sim- 

 ilar specimen from Puerto Cabello, which is in more advanced plumage 

 but presents still all the peculiarities of coloration which induced Mr' 

 Lawrence to institute a new species. I possess also young birds of C. 

 pardusBv. from Baranquilla, and of C. brevirostris Lafk. from Bogota 

 which an* in a similar stage of plumage. ' 



2. Saltator fulyiventris Lawb.=& carulescens Vmix., juvenile. 



This is evidently an immature bird in transition plumage, and I have 

 not the slightest doubt that it is the young of & L/«, V JZ. 



