Mr. F. W. PUTNAM, in behalf of the author, presented 

 the following communication : 



LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED BY MR. CHARLES LINDEN, NEAR 

 SANTAREM, BRAZIL. BY J. A. ALLEN. 



Ix February, 1873, Mr. Linden left New York for Para, Brazil, for 

 the purpose of collecting objects of Natural History. Arriving at 

 Para at the height of the rainy season, he found the constant rains and 

 the inundated state of the country highly unfavorable for his work, 

 nd soon pushed on to Santarem, on the Amazon, five hundred miles 

 west of Para. Here he found the conditions for work more favorable, 

 and adopted this point as the scene of his labors, spending most of 

 his time here from early in April till the end of July. In June he 

 made an excursion to Rhomes, sixty miles distant, where he spent a 

 few weeks, and in August passed a short time collecting at Anjos and 

 Marajo, at the mouth of the Amazon. The chief part of the collection 

 was hence made at Santarem, in the campos and sparsely wooded 

 region of the immediate vicinity. The notes added are those accom- 

 panying the specimens. The collection was made chiefly under the 

 auspices of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., 

 where the greater part of Mr. Linden's collection of birds still re- 

 mains. The collection embraced two hundred and fourteen speci- 

 mens, representing one hundred and twenty-eight species. 



1. Turdus albiventris Spix. 1 



2. Mimus saturninus Licht. Santarem, April 12 ; common. 



3. Donacobius atricapilla (Linn.). Santarem. 



4. Vireosyhia agilis (Licht.). Rhomes 2 , June 18; common. 



5. Dacnis cayana (Linn.). Santarem, April 12; common. 



6. Calliste cayana (Linn.). Santarem, April 12 and June 2; com- 

 mon in thickets. 



7. Tanagra episcopus Linn. Santarem, April 12 and June 6 ; com- 

 mon in thickets. 



8. Tanagra palmarum (Max.). Santarem, June 6; common in 

 woods and thickets. 



9. Samphoccelus jacapa (Linn.). Santarem, Marajo and Para; 

 common. 



10. Lanio atricapillus (Gm.). Santarem, May 27; not common. 



11. Tachyphonus cristata (Gm.). Santarem, May 27; in small flocks 

 in thick woods. 



!The nomenclature adopted in this paper is, with few exceptions, that of Messrs. 

 Sclater and Salvin's "Nomenclator Avinm Neotropicalium." 



2 A plantation so-culled, mentioned in Mr. Linden's notes as being sixty miles 

 from Sautarem. 



