1890.] Riker and Chapmax, Birds at Santa rem, Brazil. 1^7 



Brazil. Plumage slightly worn. Above blackish brown, the feathers 

 of the head with brownish, those of the back with grayish, margins: 

 rump grayish brown, the feathers with darker centres; wings brown- 

 ish black, the primaries edged with pure white, the first three with 

 slight terminal white margins; outer secondaries with a narrower 

 whitish margin, inner secondaries and tertiaries edged with brown- 

 ish and tipped with whitish ; exposed portion of the primary coverts with 

 a broad margin of pure white, the lesser and greater coverts tipped with 

 brownish white which is whiter terminally; tail somewhat browner than 

 the wings, all but the outer feathers with slightly lighter external 

 margins, the outer feathers from near their bases margined externally 

 with white and terminated by a white band which measures 1.00 inch on 

 their shafts, and is about the same width on the inner web of the next two 

 feathers; on the fourth it is of less extent, on the fifth appears as a 

 brownish white border, and is wanting entirely on the median pair of 

 feathers; a moustachial streak is barely evident and a blackish line pass- 

 ing through the eye includes the upper half of the auriculars and is 

 bordered above by a buffy loral and grayish postocular stripe; the under- 

 pays are grayish white, deeper on the breast; crissum fulvous; under 

 wing-coverts whitish with a slight buffy lint, the flanks buffy brownish, 

 lighter than in arenaccus, and heavily streaked with blackish; bill black. 

 the maxilla lighter basally ; feet blackish, the soles dull plumbeous. — 

 F. M. C] 



3. Donacobius atricapillus (Linn.). — July 7, 1SS7, male ; June 27, 1S87, 

 female. 



[4. Campylorhynchus hypostictus Gould. — Two specimens (Smith) 

 February 6, and March 11, 1889, agree very closel}' with a specimen of 

 hypostictus from Bogota, but are somewhat more heavily marked below, 

 being, therefore, easih' distinguishable from variegatus from Bahia. — F. 

 M. C] 



5. Cyphorinus griseolateralis Ridgtv. 



Cyphorinus griseolateralis Ridgw., Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1S87, 

 p. 518. 



Two specimens taken July 10, 1887, amongst the debris of a fallen tree 

 on the 'mountain,' and there were apparently several others. Their notes 

 are more flute-like than those of anv bird I have ever heard, varying from 

 a high to a low note in a beautiful rippling song. Called by my guides, 

 when first we heard it, the 'flute-bird,' and. to it they attach a superstitious 

 legend. 



[The discovery of this species extends the range of the genus from the 

 Upper to the Lower Amazon, where it evidently represents the Ecuadorian 

 Cypkor in us salvini Sharpe. — F. M. C] 



( To be continued.) 



