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In Venezuela the representatives of this genus are S. minuta, 

 S. lineola, its near ally S. ocellata, and S. yrisea. 



3. Amazonian Subregion. 



In Guiana and Cayenne the ordinary species of Spermophila 

 are S. minuta, S. castaneiventris, S. lineola, and S. grisea. I 

 have likewise seen Cayenne skins of S. plumbea ; and S. collaria 

 is stated to occur in British Guiana. 



On the Upper Amazon S. castaneiventris, S. lineola, and S. 

 ocellata represent the genus. From Para I have only seen -S'. 

 lineata. 



4. Brazilian Subregion. 



The commonest species of Spermojjhila in the numerous col- 

 lections brought from the wood-region of S. E. Brazil are S. 

 nigro-aurantia, S. collaria, S. ccerulescens, S. gutturalis, and S. 

 hypuleuca. S. albigularis seems to be rather local^ but occa- 

 sionally occurs in collections from Bahia. Further south, in 

 San Paulo and the adjacent provinces, Natterer got also S, hy- 

 poxantha, S. pileata, and other species not known to me, and in 

 Mattogrosso S. nigro-rufa. 



In the vicinity of Buenos Ayres S. ccerulescens (or the pale 

 variety of it, called S. nigrigularis by Gould) seems to be the 

 only species; but S. lineola and >S^. hypoxantha likewise occur 

 in Paraguay. 



In Bolivia D'Orbigny obtained examples of S. hypoxantha, S. 

 nigro-rufa, S. collaria, S. ccerulescens, S. lineola, S. bicolor, and 

 S. plumbea. Of these, S. hyjioxantha, S. nigro-rufa, and 8. cce- 

 rulescens belong to the Brazilian subfauna, while 8. lineola, S. 

 collaria, and S. plumbea are birds of wide distribution. But S. 

 bicolor, so far as is hitherto recorded, seems to have only been 

 met with in the Bolivian pi'ovince of Moxos, and is therefore 

 more sti'ictly an Amazonian species. 



II. — Stray Notes on Ornithology in India. By Allan Hume,C.B. 



No. VI. On certain new or uwecorded Bii-ds. 

 In a letter, which appeared at page 355 of ' The Ibis ' for July 

 1869, I mentioned having submitted for examination to M. 



