324 Mr. O. Salviii's Visit to the 



Myiodyxastes atrifrons, Scl. 



A specimen of this species, collected by Prof. Orton at 

 Tumbez, in Peru, also bears the name M. bairdi, Gamb. On 

 looking up these names I find that Mr. Sclater's bird must 

 be referred to Saurophagus bairdi, Gambel, Joum. Ac. N. S. 

 Phil. i. p. 40 (1847), the supposed locality (''California'') 

 being, of course, erroneous. The species must therefore stand 

 as follows : — 



Myiodyxastes bairdi. 



Saurophoyus bairdi, Gambel, ut supjra. 



Tyrannus atrifrons, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 274. 



Myiodynastes atrifrons, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 43; et Cat. 

 Am. B. 223; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. p. 50 (1873). 



Hab. Puna I., Gulf of Guayaquil {Barclay, in Mus. Brit.) ; 

 Guayaquil [Mus, P. L. S.) ; Tumbez, Peru {Orion). 



PiPREOLA scLATERi, Comalia. 



A specimen of this rare bird, now in this museum, was ob- 

 tained by Prof. Orton near Archidona, in Eastern Ecuador, 

 at an elevation of about 1500 feet above the sea-level. 



Synallaxis MACULATA, LawT. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 186 

 (1872j. 



This bird, the type of which is in the Yassar College col- 

 lection, has already been determined by Mr. Sclater to be 

 Synallaxis stictothorax {Cf. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 12, t. ii. f. 1). 

 The type, however, is rather whiter beneath than is shown in 

 the plate. 



Brachygalba lugubris, Sw. 



The Jacamar in Vassar-College Museum, thus identified by 

 Mr. Lawrence (Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 274), is undoubtedly the 

 bird we described as B. yoeringi (Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 253) . It remains to be seen whether Mr. Lawrence was 

 correct in referring it to Swainson's bird. Swaiuson distinctly 

 says that his bird is three-toed, and he says nothing about the 

 deep rufous patch on the middle of the abdomen. I should be 

 disposed to place less stress upon Swainson's statement that the 

 bird he described had three toes, had we not a genus {Jacamar- 



