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also marked with a star, we do not find in Mr. Beebe's list Agyrtrina 

 fimbriata fimbriata (Gmelin), which is common in Br. Guiana, and which 

 has been recorded from Bartica by Chubb (I. c, p. 395). This bird has 

 sometimes been confused with Saucerottia erythronota (Cf. Salvin, Cat. 

 Birds Br. Mus., 1892, xvi, p. 187) and has been listed from Bartica by 

 Salvin (Ibis, 1885, p. 435) under the name Agyrtria tobaci of which erythro- 

 nota, type locality Trinidad, is a subspecies. 



A longer stay at Bartica, no doubt would have augmented Mr. 

 Beebe's list considerably. For instance, Mr. Chubb, in his work 

 on the birds of British Guiana, records twenty-seven species in the 

 McConnell Collection, which are not included in Mr. Beebe's list. 



In Chapter XIII we find an account of the author's ornithological 

 discoveries, pertaining mostly to nests and eggs, with excellent 

 photographic illustrations. Some of these discoveries, however, 

 are by no means entirely new, reliable information on nests and 

 eggs having been published in regard to at least twelve of the 

 seventeen species discussed. Attention is called to the following 

 records : ' 



Chsemepelia talpacoti (Temminck and Knip). — Dalgleish (Proc. 

 Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, 1889, x, p. 86) describes two nests, each con- 

 taining two eggs, found Nov. 20, 1886, in Paraguay. Nehrkorn (Kat 

 Eiersamm, 1899, p. 184) lists eggs from Paraguay, 23 X 18 mm. Euler 

 (Rev. Mus. Paulista, 1900, iv, p. 98) describes nests and eggs, 22.5 X 18 

 mm. Ihering (Rev. Mus. Paulista, 1900, iv, p. 282) describes nest and 

 eggs, and says that he found a nest built upon the deserted nest of another 

 bird, containing two eggs, 22 X 17 mm. F. P. and A. P. Penard (I. c, 

 1908, i, p. 340) describe habits, nests, and eggs under C. rufipennis, assum- 

 ing talpacoti and rufipennis identical in Surinam, judging from specimens 

 which had been identified for them in England as rufipennis. Apparently 

 there is some confusion here, and the bird identified as rufipennis was 

 probably the newly described Chcemepelia arthuri Bangs and Penard 

 (Bull. M. C. Z. 1917, p. 45). 



Geotrygon [= Oreopelia] montana (Linne). — Eggs listed by 

 Nehrkorn (I. c, p. 186) from Rio Grande, Mexico, and Porto Rico, brown- 

 ish, 27 X 21 mm. F. P. and A. P. Penard (I. c, 1908, i, p. 347) say that the 

 nest is very much like that of Leptoptila, placed on low branches of trees 

 and in bushes; eggs, short-elliptical, brownish cream-color, 27 X 21.5 mm.; 

 breeds in the Dry Season. Site, nest, and eggs, have also been described 

 by Lawrence (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1879, i, p. 276), by Wells (Ibid.', 1887, 

 p. 625), and by Scott (Auk, 1892, ix, p. 124, quoting Taylor). 



Porzana albicollis (Vieillot). — Nehrkorn (I. c, p. 202) describes 

 eggs from Surinam, meas. 35 X 26 mm. Ihering (I. c. p. 286) describes 



