110 Messrs. Berlepscli and Stolzmann on, a 



Hab. in Peruvia centrali alta (in lacu Junin, altitudine 

 17,700 pedum). 



Mus. comitum Branicki, Varsovise, et comitis Berlepsch. 



Long. tot. Al. exp. Al. long. Oiilm. Tara. 



P. fac-anows/di. (^ (S .'?7U-380 54(>-570 120-122 32-33 44i-45 ram. 



2 2 300-364 520-554 124-115^ 28|-29 42i-44* „ 



F. caUiparms 128 18^ 41 „ 



This fine new species we have named in memory of our 

 ever-memorable friend the late Ladislas Taczanowski, who 

 had confounded it with P. calliparaus, fi'om which, however, 

 it is quite distinct. 



Of P. taczanoioskii we have before us three males and 

 three females collected by Mr. T. Kalinowski, a correspon- 

 dent of the Branicki Museum, in the neighbourhood of 

 Incapirca Jezioro, on Lake Junin, 17,700 feet above the sea- 

 level, on the 24th and 27th May, 1890. Kalinowski notes 

 the colour of the iris as " rouge clair," the legs as " olivatre- 

 plombe " on the inner and " d'un gris brunatre ^' on the outer 

 side. He has also sent two eggs of this species, which will 

 be described in a futui^e article. 



Kalinowski's specimens have been compared with a fine 

 adult of P. calliparaus (Less.) from Punta Arenas, Magel- 

 lania, belonging to the Berlepsch Museum. 



The chief diff^'erence between the new species and P. calli- 

 paraus is in the bill. This organ in P. taczanoioskii is 

 nearly twice as long and much broader in its basal half than 

 that of P. calliparosus. The nasal openings in the former 

 species are nearly three times longer, and are situated in 

 a much longer and deeper groove, the culmen in this part of 

 the bill being more prominent, while it is broader and more 

 depressed in its middle portion. The coloration of the bill is 

 also quite difl^erent, being of a plumbeous violet, paler beneath, 

 with a whitish tip to both mandibles, while in P. calliparaus 

 the bill seems to be always of a uniform black. 



The legs and the toes are much longer and stouter and 

 of a lighter coloration than in P. caUiparaus, being also 

 variegated with fulvous brown in some specimens, while they 

 are of a uniform black in P. callipaneus. 



