196 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the species 



The three species of the genus Hirundinea will therefore stand 

 as follows : — 



a. Uropygio dorsoque concoloribus, fusco-nigrieantibus. 



1. Hirundinea ferruginea. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 

 Ferrvginons-hellied Tody, Lath. Syn. ii. p. 662. 



Todus ferrugineus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 446; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 

 p. 267. 



Hirundinea ferruginea, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 113. 

 H. fusca : capitis lateribus albicante mixtis : alis intus et 

 speculo alari cum corpore subtus ferrugineis : cauda uni- 

 colori fusca : long, tota 6*5, alse 4*4, caudse 3 poll. Angl. 



Hah. Cayenne [Latham); Rio Icjanna [Natt.]. 



Mus. Vindob. ; P. L. S. 



The Vienna Museum possesses a specimen of this bird, ac- 

 quired at the sale of the Leverian Museum, which is in all pro- 

 bability the original of Latham^s description. Herr von Pelzeln 

 tells us that it agrees completely with Natterer's skins, which 

 were obtained on the Rio I^anna, one of the upper branches of 

 the Rio Negro. One of the latter has been kindly surrendered 

 to me in exchange by the authorities of the Vienna Museum. 



2. Hirundinea bellicosa. (Plate V. fig. 1.) 

 Suiriri roxo obscuro, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 129, No. 189. 

 Tyrannus bellicosus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxxv. p. 74; Enc. 



Meth. p. 846. 



Hirundinea bellicosa, D'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 314; Hartl. Ind. 

 Azar. p. 12. 



Myiarchus ferrugineus, Cab. in Tsch. Faun. Per. Aves, p. 154. 



Hirundinea ferruginea, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 150. 

 H. fusca : capitis lateribus albicante mixtis : alis intus et 

 speculo alari cum corpore subtus ferrugineis : cauda fused, 

 rectricum pogoniis internis a basi usque ad partem tertiam 

 apicalem ferrugineis : long, tota 8, alse 4*5, caudse 4*2. 



Hah. Paraguay, in summer [Azara) ; Bolivia, eastern slope 

 D'Orb) ; Eastern Peru [Tsch. et Rivera) ; Bogota [Mus. Brit.). 



Mus. Hafn.; Brit. 



Azara's description, as already stated, seems to apply best to 

 this species and not to H. rupestris ; but D'Orbigny^s agrees 

 more nearly with the Brazilian bird. On the whole, hovvevei', I am 



