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only the well-known Siberian bird, Pallas's pipra, of which the name, 

 given by Bonaparte, is but a synonym. 



The type of his species was a bird "tue le 28 septembre 1853, aux 

 environs d'Ukhotsk, sur le bord de la mer asiatique de ce nom," and 

 the locality, Kamtschatka, is only a guess caused by the very erroneous 

 idea that the birds of the peninsula are identical with those occurring 

 on the other side of the wide Okotsk Sea, the same idea tbat caused 

 the determination of Parus boicalensis as Mmtschailiensis. The descrip- 

 tion and plate of Malherbe from the type show furthermore, beyond 

 possibility of doubt, that bis bird is identical with the Siberian form, 

 having "transverse cordiform spots of a brownish fuliginous color on 

 the under tail-coverts," and the j)late shows distinctly two dark cross- 

 bars on the outer tail feathers, and one on each of the two following 

 pairs, together with a well-marked black subocular stripe. A com- 

 parison with Seebohm's description (Ibis, 1880, p. 181) makes the identity 

 apparent. He says: "The under tail coverts are slightly streaked with 

 black; the outside tail-feathers have two rudimentary cross-bars." It 

 would almost seem as if the type in Malberbe's possession had those 

 features even more distinct than the bird described by Mr. Seebohm. 

 Pallas's words agree in the same manner: '■'•Crisso punctato^' and "sm6- 

 caudales guttuUs cordatis nigricantibusJ^ 



The bird which I procured in Petropaulski has no trace of spots on the 

 crissum or the under tail-coverts. On the outermost pair of rectrices, 

 which are white to the very base, is one single rudimentary and narrow 

 'cross-bar near the tip, while the two following pairs have none, a 

 just perceptible spot on the margin of the inner webs indicating the 

 place where the bar is situated in allied forms. The fourth pair has a 

 white tip about 5""" broad, beginning on the outer web, about IS™"' from 

 the tip. From the base of the lower mandible, in a line with the direc- 

 tion of the bill, the feathers have dark gray bases and pure white tips, 

 thereby forming a rather obsolete grayish malar stripe, mottled with 

 "white, scarcely connected beliind with the large black patch on the side 

 of the neck. Tlie white space behind the brownish ocular patch is so 

 nearly connected with that on the other side as to almost form a contin- 

 uous white baud across the upper neck. Back white, unbarred. The 

 tchole lower surface i)ure white without the slightest trace of stripes or 

 spots. The white cross-bars on the inner secondaries are not particu- 

 larly broad, being only 4"'", and the rounded white spots on the inner 



