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cinereous, the sides of the head are exactly aliice, and the legs pale fleshy brown. 

 The Venezuelan bird differs, however, at a glance by the deep j'ellow (instead of 

 white) under parts. 



CldoroHpingus reyi Berl. * bears a remarkable likeness to B. griseiceps, but 

 may be distinj:cnislied by its less depressed, more carved bill, by the absence of 

 rictal bristles, l)y lacking tlic blackish mixture about the foreheail, the white snpra- 

 loral streak and chin-s])ot, as well as by having the sides of the head olive-yellow 

 (not cinereous). There are two specimens of this rare species iu the Tring Museum : 

 an adult female from El Escorial, February 20, 1890, and an adult bird from 

 Mfirida, without dale and sex, obtained by S. Bricefio. 



52. CHorospingus flaviventris Scl. = Tacliyphonus luctuosus Lafr. & D'Orb. ?ad. 



Tcirlii/jiliniiiis Im-lniisiis Ijufrcsiiayc & D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in : .'Ai/;. Zonl. 1837, cl. ii. p. 29 



(18.^7.— Guarayos. Bolivia)." 



ChlnrOKpingim flin-'ivnitris Sclater, P. Z.S. Loml. xxiv. I85i> p. '.M (July IS.')!). — Trinidad [Mu8. 



Jardine] ; Bolivia ? [Mus. Strickland] ). 



Tliere has been considerable uncertainty about tiie name C. /iaiicent/is, which 

 was originally based upon two specimens : one from Trinidad in Sir William 

 Jardine's jiossession, and nnoiher supposed to be from Bolivia in the Strickland 

 Collection. Tlie fornuT is apparently lost, it being neither in the British nor in 

 the Tring Mnsenin, wliile the second example is still preserved in the Cambridge 

 Mnaenni, whence it has been kindly forwarded for my inspection by Dr. Hans 

 Gadow. It is a skin in good coudirioii, labelled as follows: "Coll. H. E. 

 Strickland, No. 043 b. 'rnch>iphonun luetnosu.t, Catalogue p. 104." Tlie inscription 

 (in Strickland's own handwriting) of the old label reads: " Arremon-Chlorospingns. 

 Hab. Brazil? Date 1852. Obf*. from Argent," and on the back : " C. ,/laviventrig 

 new. ArivmoH No. lUT a." 



Its dimensions are : wing 03 ; tail b'k ; bill 12i mm. 



This example, which answers exactly to Sclater's original description, agrees with 

 several females of 7". luctuosus from Bolivia, excei)t in being slightly larger, with 

 a somewhat longer, slenderer bill, and in having the crown rather clearer cinereous. 

 These insignificant differences are no doul)t individual. It appears to be one of 

 Bridges' skins, showing the same handsome " make-up " as several Bolivian 

 specimens, obtained by that traveller, in the British Museum. 



Salvinf identified ('. /favivenfris with C. albilem/jora Lafr., considering No. 

 956 a of the Strickland Collection as the specimen referred to by Dr. Sclater. 

 Dr. Gadow having obligingly sent me the bird iu question, J 1 can ])ositively state 

 that this is a mistake. Dr. Sclater says of C Jlacixentris: " capite cinereo, viridi 

 paulnm apparente" and " giila albescenti-cinerea, abdomine toto flavo"; whereas 

 No. 950 a has the top and sides of the head dark coffee-brown, the throat bright 

 isabclline, and the whole middle of the belly white, the flanks only being dull 

 yellowish olive-green I It is, therefore, evident that No. 950 a cannot have been one 

 of the types of C. Jkii'ireiitriis. But it does not belong to C. albitempora either, 

 differing by its isabelliue (not whitish) throat, more butt'y yellow chest-band, and 

 paler, less blackish crown. In all these particulars it closely resembles the type 

 of C. fulcigulaiis Berl.,§ forwarded for examination by my friend Count Berlepsch, 



' Ibh (.5) iii. p. 2SS (ISsr..— M6ri<ln, Western Venezuela), 

 t Catalogue of the Strickland roWcrfw>n, Cambridge, 1S82, p. litG. 



\ It is inscribed as follows: " Chi. albitemjiwa. Catalogue p. IDB, No. 9.5Sa.'" On tbc oM Strickland 

 label we read ; "Brazil ? 185*2. Obi**, from Argent. New ? Chlitroipingus — proposed to h^ fnlvigitlarh," 

 § Jovrn. f. Orn'tth. 49, p. 8B (1901.— Samaipata and S. .lacinto, Eastern Bolivia). 



