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coverts are more olive-brown, and the under surface of the 

 body is devoid of rufous spots ; but these differences are, no 

 doubt, due to season or age, and are not sexual, as a second 

 male from the same locality, dated March 31st, 1890 (No. 33 

 on label), has the uuderparts also without rufous spots. 



I think there can be no doubt that the bird represented 

 in Malherbe's monograph (plate liv. tig. 2) as the female of 

 C. lugubris should be referred to the present species, the 

 difference between it and the figure of the male on the same 

 plate being very striking, and it would be interesting to know 

 the locality whence Malherbe obtained this dark-coloured 

 female. 



Although confident of the specific value of C. kerri, I may 

 remark that some of the species of the genus Celeus are 

 subject to great variation, and that the paucity of skins 

 of many of the rarer ones, combined with the often very 

 imperfect record of their capture, renders it most difiicult to 

 determine the species. I am under the impression that 

 certain specimens (not bearing any definite localities) which 

 have proved a great puzzle to me, and have been placed under 

 the species to which they have appeared to belong, will yet 

 be found to be distinct and to occujay special areas. These 

 points I shall be better able to pronounce upon when I again 

 visit the Paris Museum and have an opportunity of studying 

 some specimens contained therein. 



-f 2. PiCUMNUS PILCOMAYENSIS, Sp. U. 



Adult male. This species is intermediate between P. cir- 

 rhatus and P. orbignyanus, possessing some of the characters 

 of each. It differs from P. cirrhatus in wanting the brown 

 auricular spot, and in having the back and scapulars of a 

 greyer or more dusky brownish (not olivescent brown), crossed 

 by smoky-white bars (P. cirrhatus has sometimes transverse 

 ' bars, but they are of a different colour) ; the flanks and 

 thighs without any buff tinge. The present species differs 

 from P. orhignyarms in being clearly barred with black upon 

 the whole of the uuderparts, the upper parts being barred, 

 more or less distinctly, with smoky or brownish white (not 



