62 Hans, Graf von Berlepsch, on three 



Immediately on receiving this specimen, I wrote a letter 

 to Mr. Scliulz asking him to collect more specimens of 

 Pipra opa/hans, for which I offered him a good price; but 

 he did not succeed in finding it again, and unfortunately, 

 owing to bad health, he was obliged to return to Germany 

 in 1895. 



2. Idiopsar brachyurus. 



This curious bird was described by the late Mr. Cassin, 

 in his " Study of the Icteridce " (Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. 

 1866, p. 414), from a single specimen said to have been 

 procured near La Paz in Bolivia by Mr. D. K. Cartter. 

 Mr. Sclater, having examined the type belonging to the 

 U.S. National Museum at Washington, pointed out (in an 

 article in 'The Ibis,' 1884, p. 240), quite correctly, I think, 

 that Idiopsar hracJiyurus is not an Icteriiie bird but a 

 Finch, reminding one of Phrygilus unicolor by its style of 

 coloration, but possessing quite an extraordinary bill for 

 a Finch. 



Now I have great pleasure to announce that my collector, 

 Herr Gustav Garlepp, with the aid of a copy of the figure in 

 * The Ibis' for 1881, and having received special instructions 

 from me to make every effort to find this bird, after having 

 vainly searched, for it in the neighbourhood of La Paz, was 

 at last so fortunate as to discover it at Iquico on the Illi- 

 raani (4000 metres) in February 1895, and to find it again 

 near llinconada, on the road over the Andes, also east of 

 La Paz at the same altitude (4000 metres), in September 

 1896. 



Altogether, Mr. Garlepp has sent me twelve specimens, 

 including adults of both sexes and a young bird, all of them 

 being nearly alike in coloration. 



It may not be out of place to give here an abstract of 

 Garlepp's letter relating to this important discovery, 

 translated from the German original : — 



" Iquico, 20tli February, 1895. 



'^ After some delay, caused by our illness, and after 



a riding journey of two days (from La Paz), we at last 



