o02 Count T. Salvador! on the 



of Cotopaxi, belonged to the distinct species which had been 

 described by Graf von Berlcpsch and M. Stolzmann under 

 the name of T. bra nick ii * from specimens collected at 

 Junin^ MaraynioCj and PariayacUj on the highlands of Peru. 

 On turning to the British Museum Catalogue I was much 

 surprised to find that Dr. Sharpe f had failed to recognize 

 T. branickii as a distinct species^ under the impression 

 that the differences of plumage relied on by the describers 

 for the separation of T. hranichi from T. melanojns were 

 only those of age or season. Moreover, I soon found out 

 that the synonymy and geographical ranges attributed by 

 Dr. Sharpe to the two species T. melanopis and T. caudatus 

 recognized by him, required revision. 



In order to settle several questions concerning the species 

 of the genus Theristicus, I addressed myself also to Dr. Finsch, 

 requesting him to give me some information as regards the 

 specimens in the Leyden Museum, which had been attributed 

 by Dr. Schlegel J to a single species, T. melaiiopis, while it 

 appeared to me that they must clearly belong to two distinct 

 species. Dr. Finsch took the opportunity of his researches 

 to publish the result of his enquiries in a paper under 

 the title "Ueber die Arten der Gattung Theristicus Wagl.'''' §. 

 Dr. Finsch also recognized in this paper that T. branicUi 

 was a species distinct from T. melanopis, and, besides 

 that, described what he believed to be a new allied species 

 under the name T. columbianus. 



But it seems that both Dr. Sharpe and Dr. Finsch have 

 ignored the very accurate notes by Graf von Berlcpsch and 

 M. Stolzmann on the synonymy and geographical distribution 

 of T. melanopis and T. caudatus, published in their paper 

 '' Resultats dcs Recherches ornithologiques faites au Peron 

 par Jean Kalinowski '^ ||. 



This is the present state of things as regards the species 



* Ibis, 1694, p. 404. 



t Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 23. 



X Mus. des Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 7. 



§ Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. xxi. pp. 23-26 (1899). 



{ P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 322-388. 



