of the T'yrannine Genus Hirnndmea. 163 



ill this Journal for 18G9 (p. 19G et seqq.), I pointed out the 

 distinctions between the three well-marked species of this 

 group, and described their geographical ranges so far as they 

 •were known to me. Retaining the term ferrugine a of Gmelin 

 for the Guianan form with uniform dark back and tail, I 

 referred Vieillofs term bellicosa to the Colombian and Peru- 

 vian form (which differs from the preceding in having the 

 inner webs of the tail-feathers ferruginous red), and applied 

 to the South-cast Brazilian bird, which is at once distin- 

 guished by its ferruginous rump, the name rupestris of Prince 

 Maximilian. Prof. Reinhardt, however, from whom I had 

 obtained the loan of the skin upon which my diagnosis and 

 figure of the so-called H. bellicosa were based, did not quite 

 agree with my views as to the synonymy of this species. He 

 was of opinion that the term bellicosa of Vieillot, founded 

 upon AzaiVs description of his '^ Sidriri roxo obscuro ' 

 (Apunt. ii. p. 129), was more likely to be referable to the 

 Brazilian bird (my H. ri(pestris), and has stated his reasons 

 for this view in his excellent memoir on the avifauna of the 

 (Campos of Brazil"^. So persuaded was he that the term 

 " bellicosa " was not applicable to the Peruvian species to 

 which I had applied it, that he proposed a new designation 

 for the latter — Hitnindinea sclaleri — as being the " H. belli- 

 cosa, Scl. nee Vieill.^' 



Although Mr. Salvin and I were sufficiently convinced by 

 Prof. Reinhardt^s argument to refer Vieillot's term bellicosa 

 to the Brazilian species, and to employ the name sclateri for 

 the Peruvian form in our ' Nomenclator ^ (p. 51), it was with 

 great satisfaction that a short time ago I received a skin 

 oi Hirundinea which set any lingering doubts I might have had 

 on the subject at rest. Amongst the birds collected by Mr. 

 E. W. White, F.Z.S., during his recent expedition to the 

 upper provinces of the Argentine Republic f:, was a skin of 

 Hirundinea obtained at Puente de Andalgala, Catamarca, in 

 September 1880, which completely agrees with Brazilian 



* Bidrag til Kundskab om Fuglefaunaen i Brasilieus Campos, iu Vid. 

 Medd. Kjobenhavn, 1870. 

 t Cf. Ibis, 1881, p. 599. 



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