418 Mr. O. Salvin on Birds 



" Common^ frequenting the streams in tlie mountains near 

 the coast. Eyelids, base of bill, and legs pink.'^ 



62. PODICEPS FLUVIATILIS CAPENSIS. 



Colymbus fluviatUis, Tunstall, Orn. Brit. 1771, p. 3. 



Podiceps capensis, Licht. Nomencl. 1854, p. 104; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 252 (Shoa). 



Podiceps minor, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 1363 ; Finsch 

 & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 811 ; Bohm, J. f. O. 1885, p. 38. 



Hab. The whole of Afriea. 



This subspecies may be distinguished from the typical 

 P. jiuviatilis by the secondaries being white, more or less 

 washed with brown towards the ends of the outer webs. It 

 is also rather smaller. The present specimen is apparently 

 exceptionally small. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0'7, 

 wing 3"65, tarsus 1*25. 



" Some half dozen were met with in a pan near the middle 

 of the plateau.''^ 



XLII. — A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely 

 in British Guiana. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



[Continued from p. 306.] 



249^. FURNARIUS LEUCOPUS. 



Furnarius leucopus, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 325 ; Cab. in 

 Schomb. Guiana, iii. p. 688 ; Pelz. Ibis, 1881, p. 406. 



Originally described from Guianan specimens, but not 

 represented in Mr. Whitely's collection. 



250. LOCHMIAS NBMATURA. 



Myiotfiera nematura, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 43. 



Lochmias nematura, Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 149. 



Kukenam (5000 ft.) . 



Except that the bill is a little darker and the dark margins 

 of the feathers of the under surface a little wider, the single 

 specimen in Mr. Whitely^s collection does not differ from 

 Brazilian examples of L. nematura. L. obscurata, Cabauis, 



