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certainly the species iu question. The term cin-hatus has 

 already been used for this bird by Prof. Cabanis (cf. Schorab. 

 Reise Brit. Guian. iii. p. 687, & Mus. Hein, ii. p. 16). 



I may be allowed here to remark that the bird from Santa 

 Marta which belongs to a closely allied species to T. cirrha- 

 tus, or perhaps should be termed a subspecies, is not entitled 

 to bear the name T. leucauchen, Scl. (originally described as 

 from the Upper Amazons), but that of pulchellus, Cab. et 

 Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 16 (well described from Cartagena). 

 T. pulchellus differs from T. cirrhatus in possessing a bright 

 rufous back, more white in the otherwise black head, and a 

 rusty suffusion on the flanks, and in showing a continuous white 

 outer web on the outer tail-feathers (up to the white end). 

 Venezuelan examples are somewhat intermediate between T. 

 cirrhatus and T. pulchellus, but agree better with the former. 



The dififerences of T. pulchellus are not pointed out in the 

 description of T. leucauchen, Scl. ; and as T. cirrhatus is also 

 mentioned from the Upper Amazons by Sclater and Salvin 

 (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 273, sub T. atricapillo), I believe that T. 

 leucauchen will prove to be only a synonym of it *. 



On the other hand, T. albinuchalis , Sclater, from Ecuador 

 and Northern Peru (given also from New Granada by Cab. 

 et Heine), is a very distinct and fine species, in no way to be 

 confounded with T. cirrhatus. There is a third species, allied 

 to T. cirrhatus, found atBahiaby the Prince of Wied, viz. T. 

 cristatus, which is evidently well marked, but seems not to have 

 been met with since its discovery by that illustrious traveller. 



XVIII. — Ornithological Letters from the Pacific. — VII. A^a- 



wodo {Pleasant Island) . By Otto Finsch, Ph.D., 



H.M.B.O.U., &c. 



Pacific Ocean, on board the German steamer 

 'Pacific' July 29, 1880. 

 It is my privilege to be today among the innumerable 



* \_T. leucauchen (from Upper Amazonia) is mwcA nearer to T. pulchellus 

 than to T. cirrhatus ; and if (as it seems to us) T. leucauchen and T. pulchellus 

 are barely separable, the species must go by the former name, as oldest. 

 — Edd.] " 



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