1890.] Elliot on l/ic Genus Dendrornis. 160 



The types ot'this species are before me from the Lafresnaye col- 

 lection, and they appear quite distinct from all others of this 

 genus. The figure in Des Murs's work (1. c.) gives no idea of 

 the bird, and is, like all the other figures of Dendrornis in the 

 volume, apt to mislead, as they are quite unlike the specimens, 

 both in color and in shape and distribution of the spots. D. 

 weddelli is remarkable for its long and slender bill, which is 

 quite straight with the gonys very long and ascending. The max- 

 illa is slightly hooked at the point. Des Murs gives no habitat 

 for the species, nor is any mentioned on the labels. Mr. Sclater 

 states in P. Z. S., 1S71, p. 86, that he had compared his speci- 

 mens, designated by him heretofore as D. palliata, with the 

 marked types of D. weddelli in the Paris Museum and "found 

 them identical with it and not with D. palliatits." A doubt 

 arises here in my mind whether after all specimens marked 1). 

 xveddelli were really that species. Des Murs gives the name of 

 I), weddelli as a MS. one conferred by Lafresnaye, and the 

 author of the birds of Castelnau's 'Voyage' does not say that the 

 type or any specimens of weddelli are in the Paris Museum ; 

 while Lafresnaye's collection contains two specimens marked as 

 the types of the species, while they are also enumerated as such 

 in the catalogue, made by Jules Verreaux, of the collection in 

 Paris, before it was sold to Dr. Bryant and brought to Boston. 

 On the other hand, D. palliatus Dev. and Des Murs is not 

 contained in the Lafresnaye collection and would naturally be 

 supposed to be among Castelnau's birds in the Paris Museum. I 

 do not mean to argue that D. weddelli is not represented in the 

 Paris Museum collection, but I doubt very much if any specimen 

 there is rightly labelled as a type of the species. The two are 

 apparently very distinct, the form and length of the bill of J), 

 weddelli being quite different from that of the other species of 

 Dendrornis, and neither agrees with the typical specimen of 1). 

 chiinchotambo Tsch. before me, which has been considered as 

 a synonym of D. ocellata Spix by some writers. 



^ Dendrornis kieneri. 



Dendrornis kieneri Des Murs, Voy. Amer. Sud. Ois. p. 45, pi. 14, fig. 

 1. (1S56). 



Habitat. — Ega, Brazil. 



"D. supra cinnamomeo-rufus ; secundariis rectricibus fuscioribus ; tergo 

 dilutiore; capite, genis, colloque postico fere nigris, fulvoalbide stricto 



