(240 ) 



nnder-surface serves to tlistiDgiiisli it at a glance. In the northern race * the back 

 is lunch darker sooty gre)', being little, if anything, lighter than the crown ; the 

 whole under surface, from the chin to the anal region, is uniform sooty grey 

 [very nearly as dark as the upper parts], the under tail-coverts only being edged 

 with whitisli. 



Connt Berlepsch f lias united Vonto/tus bracht/rla/nclnis Cab., \ from N.W. 

 Argentine, with M. f. /am.i(j(itus, as defined above. In fact, when studying the 

 type, forwarded by the authorities of the Berlin Museum, in company with the 

 Count several years ago, I could not i)erceive any material difference between 

 the Bolivian series and tiie Tncnman bird. However, it should be noted that the 

 type specimen of f '. hraclnjrhijnclniK, in bleached breeding plnmago, is not quite fit 

 for the pnri)06e of comparison. Since that time I have had the opportunity of 

 examining five adults from the mountains of N.W. Argentine, § and they appear to 

 me to represent another recognisable form, characterised by its very i)ale colora- 

 tion. The nape, back and sides of the hoa<l, instead of being sooty grey, arc light 

 smoke-grey tinged with olivaceous, the crown nearly concolonr with the mantle; 

 the throat is more whitish ; the breast much paler greyish, and the yellowish white 

 area in the middle of the belly far more extended. The wings are apparently 

 somewhat longer (08 — 101 mm.). 



There are, thus, three races to be distinguished : 



(a) Mi/iochanes fumigntus artlosiacus (Lafr.) :i the darkest, ranging from 

 Central Peru through Western Ecuador to Colombia, Western Venezuela (Mi^rida) 

 and British Guiana (Roraima). 



(h) Mijiochanc^ J'limUjatHx finniijiitiix (Lafr. k D'Orb.), lighter, with whitish 

 admi.xturo on throat and middle of belly, inhabiting the highlands of Bolivia. 



(c) Mi/iochanesfumigatua brachyrkijnchus (Cab.), the palest, occurring in the 

 high mountains of North-Westorn Argentine (Tncnman, Jnjuy). If 



The recently described Afi/iockan/>.i ardoxiwus poUopiilus Todd, ** from the 

 Venezuelan coast-nionntains — which I have not seen — appears to be a fonrth 

 member of this group, and should be called M. fumigatus poUojAilus Todd. 



62. Neopipo helenae McConnell should be N. cinnamomea helenae McOonnell. 



Neopqm helenae McConnell. ISuU. ll.O.C. xxvii. p. 10.') (1911. — Itaribisce, Brit. Guiana). 



No. 1. Mns. McConnell (t^) ad. Itnribisce, Brit. 

 Guiana, October 19U8, y. helenae McCon- 

 nell. Type Wing 51 ; tail 3S ; bill 7| ram. 



This specimen and an adult male from French Guiana in the Tring Museum 

 differ from ^V. chmamomea of Upper Amazonia by having the lores greyish white 



• I have ex.Tmiaed specimens from the following localities: 3 Bogota, 1 Western Colombia, 3 

 Mferlda, 4 Western Ecuador, 1 N.W. Peru (Tambillo), 1 Central Peru (Huftnuco), 1 British Quisna 

 (Roraima). 



t Ornis.xiv. February UI07, p. 478. 



t Joun.f. Ornith. 31, p. 2U (1S83.— Tucmuan). 



§ Two (J (J from Tucumi'in ; 1 j^, ? ? from Ledesma, Jujuy. 



II Ti/raiinula ardosiaca I.afrcsnaye, Ber. Zuol. vii. p. 80 (1844. — " Colombie," so. Bogota). 

 f See also Lillo, Apiint. de His'. Xa'. i. No. 3, IflOfl, p. 42 (Tucumin) ; Hartert and Venturi, Xov. 

 Zoel. xvi. 11109, p. 203 (Tuoum4n, Jujuy) ; Dabbene, Omith. Arijent. i. 1910, p. 347 (Tucuman). 



*• Ann. Curnegie Mm. viii. No. 2, p. 208 (1912.— Lagunita de .Yroa, Est. Lara, North Venezuela). 



