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to show me his type of Chrysotis canipalliata (Jour. f. Orn. 

 1874, p. 105). I found it to be one of the late Mr. Salmon's 

 skins of the species which Mr. Salvin and I (P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 538) had determined as C. mercenaria (Tsch.). So far as I 

 can tellj after looking into the question again^ the determi- 

 nation arrived at by Mr. Salvin and myself appears to be 

 correct. 



I observe that Dr. Cabanis, in his description of the sup- 

 posed new species, speaks of C. mercenaria, but does not 

 point out the differences between it and C. canipalliata. 



I may remark that the red patch at the base of the secon- 

 daries in this species is absent in young birds. Tschudi ap- 

 pears to have taken his description from a young bird, and 

 his figure from an adult ; cf. Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 595, and 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 75. I have in my collection a 

 young bird of this species from the Rio Napo, and an adult 

 from Antioquia {Salmon) . 



f~ 3. Chrysotis apoph^nica, R-eichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1880, 

 p. 16, is, in my judgment, as I have already stated (Ibis, 

 1880, p. 378),= C. albifrons ? . 



-^ 4. Chrysotis panamensis. Cab. J. f. Orn. 1874, p. 349, is 

 founded upon the northern form of C. ochrocephala, which 

 is diagnosed as being smaller in size, and having a yellow 

 bill. I have seen many examples of this bird ; and two such 

 are now living in the Zoological Society's Gardens. They 

 are certainly distinguishable from the ordinary larger form 

 with the dark bill, and should rank as a subspecies if not as 

 a species. The "Bogota" bird appears to be the true C. 

 ochrocephala. There is one skin of Chrysotis panamensis 

 in Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection from Veragua 

 {Arce). ^^, - 



-^5. Chrysotis NiCHOLLSi. 



Chrysotis nichollsi, Lawrence, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 

 p. 254. 



The authorities of the Smithsonian Institution have, at 

 Mr. Lawrence's request, most kindly sent to me for exami- 



