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bahamensis, Bryant. 
andria, Miller, Auk. xi. pp. 164, 165 (1894). 
Slightly smaller than S. bahamensis, Bryant; colours throughout darker ; bill 
proportionately deeper through base. Dimensions (average of four specimens) : 
—Wing, 152 [mm.]; tail, 257; tarsus, 37°7; bill (from nostril), 37; depth 
through nostril, 14°50; ratio of depth to length, 39°09.” (Miler). Haluitat. 
Andros Island, Bahamas. 
vieilloti, Bp. One. Porto Rico. 
HYETORNIS, Sc/at. 
pluvialis (@m.). Four. ¢. Jamaica. 
fieldi, Cory, Avk. xii. p. 278 (1895). 
«* Male :—Upper parts, including upper tail-coverts, slaty, showing a faint trace of 
olive in some lights; a dusky stripe in front of the eye; throat, breast, and 
upper belly chestnut brown, belly tawny becoming pale on the crissum ; 
primaries deep chestnut-brown shading into olive at the tips; under wing- 
coverts tawny; shafts of quills (except the first) strongly tinged with rufous 
brown; under surface of primaries and secondaries rufous, shading to slaty 
olive at tips; tail feathers (except two central ones) bluish black tipped with 
white, and shading to pale olive at the base; two central tail feathers pale 
olive becoming brownish at tips; bill dark showing a tinge of dull yellow at 
middle of lower mandible; legs and feet black. Length, 16°75; wing, 650; 
tail, 10°50; bill, 1°30; tarsus, 1°50 inches.” (Cory). Habitat. Maniel, San 
Domingo. 
PIAYA, Less. 
cayana (Linn.). Sixteen. @. Mexico (Tehuantepec, September). Vera 
Paz (Tactic, January). Honduras. Brazil. Sarayacu. 
P. cayana sub. sp. cabanisi, Allen (Bull. Amer. Mus. v. pp. 136-138, 1895), from 
Matto Grosso, appears to us to be of the same value as the forms known as 
P. mehleri, Bp., P. thermophila, Sclat., and P. nigricrissa, Sclat., which are 
’ included by Capt. Shelley in the synonymy of P. cayana. : 
melanogastra (Vicill.). Two. British Guiana, July. 
minuta (Vicill.). Five. Brazil (Para). 
No. 5, apparently a young bird, and without locality, is smaller, darker, and 
without the white tips to its tail feathers. 
ZANCLOSTOMUS, Swains. 
javanicus (/orsf.). Nine. 29. Malay Peninsula. Sumatra (Palembang : 
Kotta Djawa; Tarratas). Borneo (Trusan, September). 
TACCOCUA, Less. 
sirkee (Gray). Five. ¢. Central India (Muddapur, September ; Futteghur, 
November). Southern India (Nellore). 
RHOPODYTES, Cab. & Heine. 
viridirostris, Jerd. Four. Southern India (Mynaad, Madras; Nellore). 
Ceylon. 
tristis (Zess.). Four. Northern India (Darjeeling). 
elongatus (S. Miill.). One. 9. Sumatra (Padang, Batang Singalang). 
The handwriting on the label of this specimen is undoubtedly Miiller’s, being 
similar to that on others collected by him in Timor, and in Triton Bay, New 
Guinea; the bird, which was purchased from Leadbeater in March, 1841, is 
almost certainly a Co-type of the species. 
elongatus, sub. sp. kangeanensis, Vorderman, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 1893, 
pp. 188-189. 
“The Kangean sub-species of Rhopodytes elongatus, Miill., is of smaller dimensions 
than the typical form from Sumatra, and is without the white chin and black 
frontal feathers. In other respects the description of the Sumatra species 
applies perfectly. . . . Total length, 480 mm. ; culmen, 32; wing, 161; 
tail, 331; tarsus, 35.” (Vorderman). 
