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Bogota region from where it had never been reported before and where 



he also found picirostris. 



Although Wt follow ('haj)tnan in treating I), picirostris as a race of 



P. picas, we strongly susped that the two are specifically distinct. 



Stone (Proc. Aead. nat. sei. Phila., 1 SO?), p. 51) lists a specimen as 

 the type of IK picirostris, acquired by the Philadelphia Academy in 



the Delatre collection. The label of this specimen hears the locality 

 N. Grenada, but does not specifically refer to the type-locality, Rio 

 Haeha. mentioned in the original publication. In the Lafresnaye 

 collection there are three specimens all marked as having come from 

 Rio llacha. One specimen in particular also refers to Delatre, its 

 Label reading as follows: "Dendroplex picirostris nob. rev. 1847, p. 76, 

 N 1Ie Grenada (Rio hacha delatr.)". This specimen, we think, has at 

 least as good a claim to being the type as the one in the Philadelphia 

 Academy's collection. We therefore consider them both cotypes. 



0. Dendroplex picus longirostris Richmond. 



Dendroplex longirostris Richmond, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1896, 13, p. 674 



i Margarita Island). 



Type.— U.S. N.M. 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Dendroplex picus picirostris (Lafres- 

 naye), and of about the same size, but bill longer and heavier, and tail shorter; 

 feathers of throat whiter, without dark edges, and extending more over chest; 

 the pale centers of feathers of lower breast broader. 



Measurements. — Adult (two specimens) — wing, 100.0-102.0 

 (101); tail, 76.0-79.0 (77.5); tarsus, 22.0-23.0 (22.5); culmen from 

 base of forehead, 33.0-35.5 (34.3). 



Range. — Island of Margarita. 



Specimens examined. — Two adult males from the type-locality. 



Remarks. — If it should eventually be shown that D. picirostris is a 

 distinct species, then D. longirostris ought to be considered a subspecies 

 of it rather than of D. picus. 



THE IDENTITY OF TODIROSTRUM SPICIFERUM LAFRESNAYE. 



In the catalogue of the Lafresnaye collection, compiled by Verreaux, 

 two specimens, 4,632 and 4,633, are listed as types of Todirostrum 

 tpiciferum Lafresnaye (Rev. zool., 1846, p. 363, "hab. in Brasilia" — 



