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Tlu' two small specimens wliieli Noble (lor. rit., p. 'M2) considered 

 a (iilVerent sjH'cies. to wliicli he applied the name Aiatrilatd luicaitaUi, 

 \\Q do not reganl specifirall\- dilVercnt from the larpT birds. The 

 difference in the nostril tubes pointed out by Noble does not appear 

 to be due to a normal condition, but rather one of distortion in drying. 

 Noble refers P. iiicridioiuili.s Lawrence, which is a very large bird, to 

 his 7*. hatsiinia on the ground that the nostril tubes (and coloration) 

 are like those of the small birds. In our opinion /'. iiuridioftalis is 

 P. hacsifata Kuhl with normal nostril tubes. At any rate there is 

 great variation in the specimens, and we refer the small birds which 

 Noble considered a different species to P. hacsitain Kuhl, rather than 

 to rename them on the exidence at hand. 



A female taken at Pittsfield, N. H., August, 1893, by H. W. Osgood, 

 now in the collection of William Brewster (46,076) has normal nostril 

 tubes, but is a small bin!; it affords the following measurements: — 

 wing, 265; tail, 128; bill (to angle of mouth), 37; culmen, 32; tarsus, 

 35; middle toe, with claw, 50. 



Lafresnaye's reference to two species, a larger and smaller, which 

 arrive at different times of the year and nest at tlift'erent heights, is 

 interesting, but there is no reason for assuming that the two small 

 specimens in the ]\I. C. Z. represent the smaller species referred to by 

 Lafresnaye. It is also interesting to note in this connection that 

 Pere Labat's illustration of the Diablotin (Nouv. voy., 1724, 2, p. 349) 

 represents a uniformly dark-colored bird, and on the next page he 

 WTites, "son plumage est noir." 



Herpetotheres cachixn.^jn's queribuxdcs, subsp. nov. 



Type. — M. C. Z. 7,792. Brazil: Pernambuco. J. C. Fletcher. 



Characters. — Similar to H. cachinnans cachinnans (Linne) of Guiana 

 but paler, the upper parts browner, much less blackish, the lower parts 

 whiter; similar also to H. c. chapmani Bangs and Penard of Mexico 

 but slightly smaller and w^th very much less spotting on axillars and 

 lining of wing. 



