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type-locality, however, it is mot 3 el certain that the name polychopterus 



properly belongs to the southern bird) heeanse, as Ilellniayr and 

 Seilern (Arehiv naturg., 1912, aht. A, liel't 5, J). 89, footnote) ha\e 



observed, the type, which is in the Paris Museum, may upon investi- 

 gation, prove to belong tO one of the northern South American forms, 



in which ease P. nolius Brewster and Bangs heeomes available for 



this form. 



If any difference exists between true notius and the l>ird from south- 

 ern Brazil, it is so slight that we cannot differentiate it from individual 

 variation in the series examined, and hence we are obliged to unite 

 both under one name, provisionally using Pachyrhamphus polychoj/- 

 terus polychopterus (Vieillot). 



2. Pachyrhamphus polychopterus splendens (Wied). 



Muscipcta splendens Wied, Beitr. naturg. Bras., 1831, 3, pt. 2, p. 90G (Brazil — 



we designate Bahia). Type. — A. M. N. H. 

 Pachyrynchus spixii Swainson, Animals in menag., 1838, p. 289 ("Brazil?" — 



we designate Bahia). Type. — Paris Museum — fide Swainson (loc. cit.). 



SuBSPECiFic characters. — Similar to Pachyrhamphus polychopterus 

 polychopterus (Vieillot) of South Brazil, but smaller; under parts much paler, 

 never blackish, usually about light neutral gray (of Ridgway) to neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Type. — Adult cT — wing, 77.5; tail, 59.0; 

 tarsus, 18.0; exposed culmen, 13.0. 



Male (eight specimens including the type) — wing, 75.5-77.5 

 (76.7); tail, 56.3-59.0 (56.9); tarsus, 17.5-19.0 (18.4); exposed cul- 

 men, 11.5-13.1 (12.5). 



Range. — Eastern Brazil. 



Specimens examined. — Eastern Brazil : Bahia (type and trade 

 skins), 5cfcf; Ceara* (trade skins), 3cfcf; "Bresil" (Lafr. coll. 

 4,504), 1 cT. Total, 9. 



Remarks. — In this subspecies the under parts are never so con- 

 spicuously freckled as in true polychopterus of South Brazil, because 

 the ground color is so much paler. Owing to the presence of small 

 whitish lores in many specimens, we suspect that it has often been 

 confounded with Pachyrhamphus marginatum marginatus (Lichten- 

 stein), which inhabits the same general region, but the under parts 

 of P. p. splendent are never so pale, and the white frontal band is 

 never present, as in that species. 



Having examined the type of Wied's Muscipeta splendens, we posi- 



