60 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Trogonidae. 

 131. Trogonurus curucui curucui (Linne), 

 Two adults, c/' and 9 , Vicinity of Paramaribo, May. 



132. Trogon strigilatus strigilatus (Linne). 



Twenty-nine specimens, both sexes. Vicinity of Paramaribo, and 

 Lelydorp, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, 

 and December. 



133. Chrysotrogon violaceus violaceus (Gmelin). 



Three specimens, cf cT and 9 , Vicinity of Paramaribo, May and 

 July. 



134. CuRUCUJUS MELANURus MELANURUS (Swainson). 

 One adult cf, Rijsdijkweg, April. 



MiCROPODIDAE. 



135. Chaetura brachyura brachyura Jardine. 



Two adults, cf and 9 , Vicinity of Paramaribo, March. 



We have not seen specimens from Tobago, but Hellmayr (Nov. zool., 

 1906, 13, p. 37) who had a large series from Surinam, states that birds 

 from Surinam, Trinidad, and Tobago are absolutely identical. 



Five specimens from St. Vincent, in the M. C. Z., certainly represent 

 a different race, for which we propose the name 



135a. Chaetura brachyura praevelox, subsp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. E. A. & O. Bangs Coll. 12,817. Adult cf. 

 Chateaubelair, St. Vincent, 14 October, 1903. Austin H. Clark. 

 Characters.— Sim\\a,r to C. b. brachyura Jard., and of same size, 



