8 Mr. C. Chubb : Notes on [Ibis 



throat, and the long tail compared with the short wing, 



which accounts for its name. 



Total length 220 mm., exposed culmen 17, wing 77, 



tail 93, tarsus 27, middle toe with claw 23, hind toe with 



claw, 17. 



Habitat. Unknown. * 



The type of this species is in the Strickland collection at 



the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. 



*Einbeniagra olivascens. 



Embernagra olivascens d'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. M^rid. iii. 

 Oiseaux, 1836, p. 285 : Bolivia; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xii. 1888, p. 759. 



Limnospiza olivascens Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 1850, p. 136. 



Adult. Hind neck, back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green with a hoary-grey tinge ; brighter and more 

 yellowish green on the wings ; inner webs of flight-quills 

 dark brown with paler edges, innermost secondaries mar- 

 gined with ochreous ; sides of the lower back buff ; middle 

 tail-feathers brown fringed with yellowish green which 

 increases in extent on the outer feathers ; crown of the head 

 rather darker than the back ; fore part of the head and 

 sides of the face grey; throat and breast also grey but paler 

 and more silvery grey ; abdomen cream-white ; lower flanks 

 and under tail-coverts pale isabelline-buff ; thighs very pale 

 grey ; under wing-coverts yellow ; under surface of quills 

 pale brown, the inner edges isabelline ; lower aspect of tail 

 yellowish. 



Total length 199 mm., exposed culmen 17, wing 98, 

 tail 99, tarsus 35, middle toe with claw 26, hind toe with 

 claw 20. 



The above description is taken from an example collected 

 at Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Bolivia, by the late Clarence 

 Buckley, which appears to have just newly moulted and 

 agrees fairly well with d'Orbigny's description. There are 



* It i? to be regretted that by some inadvertence this species was not 

 included in Brabourne & Chubb's ' List of the Birds ol' South America.' 

 Its number should have been 3897. 



