90 Haus von Berlepscli on the Genus Cyclorhis. 



I have received the very bird from Asuncion in Para- 

 guaV; which proved to be quite identical Avith C. altirostris, 

 Salvin, from Tucuman ^. 



At one time Mr. Sclaterf correctly referred his Boli- 

 vian skin to C. viridis, Vieill., but more recently he has 

 transferred that name to the species of S.E. Brazil and 

 Argentina, which is entitled to the name of C. ochroce- 

 phala, Tschudi. That the term C. altirostris imposed on C. 

 viridis by Mr. O. Salvin is an appropriate name cannot, in 

 my mind, justify us in abandoning the old name C. viridis, 

 Yieill., about the correct application of which there can be 

 not the slightest doubt. 



C. viridis (Vieill.), then, is a near ally of C. cearensis, Bd., 

 but is larger in all its dimensions, and has a larger, stouter, 

 usually higher bill. The olive of the upper parts is duller 

 and more of a greyish tint ; the yellow of the breast is 

 duller or more greenish yellow ; the abdomen more suffused 

 with rusty. 



Its synonymy is : — Azara, " Habia verde,'^ no. 89, unde 

 Saltatvr viridis, Vieill., Enc. Meth. ii. (1820), p. 793 (typ. 

 ex Paraguay). 



Laniagra guianensis, d'Orb. & Lafr. Synops. Av. i. (1837), 

 p. 9 ; d'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 160 (Corrientes, Arg. : Chiquitos, 

 Yungas, Ayupaya, & Rio Grande, Bolivia). 



Cyclorhis viridis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p, 448 (Paraguay & 

 Bolivia); id. Cat. Coll. Am. B. p. 46, no. 280 (Bolivia); 

 Baird (part.), Eev. Am. B. i. p. 392 (Boliv. ex Sclater). 



Cyclorhis altirostris, Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 352 (typ. ex Salta) . 



Hub. Paraguay [Azara ^ Rohde) ; N. Argentina, Salta 

 [Durnfurd, Mus. Salv. ^f Godm.) ; Tucuman [Schulz, Mus. 

 H. V. B.) ; Bolivia (Mus. Sclater <Sf d'Orbigny). 



10 (Scl. no. 9). Cyclorhis nigrirostris, Lafr. 



11 (Scl. no. 10). Cyclorhis atrirostris, Scl. 



It is difficult to form an opinion about this new species, as 

 the specimen described is evidently in immature plumage ; 



• Cf. Berl. Journ. f. Orn. 1887, p. 5. 



t Scl. Cat. Coll. Am. Birds, p. 46, no. 280. 



