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9 c?&\ San Sebastiao, I »; Diamantina, I ; "Bresil," 1 &. 

 Total, L2. 



Ki \i irks. We have not sim any adult males from southeastern 

 Brazil. Measurements <>l 'lie adult Female Prom San Seba ii;i<> eem 

 i<> indicate that birds from the southern parts of the range may be 

 somewhat larger. 



2, Paghyrhamphus m irginatus nanus, subsp. nov. 



Type. M. C Z. 82,600 (Penard coll. 2,00s), adult tf. East Peru: 

 Xeberos, Peruvian Amazons. Bartlett. 



SlJBSPEClFIC CHABACTEBS. — -Similar U) I'arh i/r/mm ph us iiianji iml us mart/i- 



natus (Lichtenstein) of Bahia, but decidedly smaller; coloration about the 

 Bame, but white frontal hand aarrower and less conspicuous. 



Measurements. — Type. — Adult cf — wing, 67.3; tail, 46.0; tar- 

 sus, 17.5; exposed culmen, 12.3. 



Male (fourteen specimens) — wing, 64.2-70.5 (67.8); tail, 45.6- 

 51.3 (48.6); tarsus, 17.0-18.3 (17.7); exposed culmen, 11.5-12.5 

 (12.1). 



Female (twenty-two specimens) — wing, 62.5-66.0 (64.8); tail, 

 43.0^9.0 (46.8); tarsus, 16.5-19.0 (17.6); exposed culmen, 11.8-13.3 

 (12.2). 



Range. — Northeastern Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, Upper Amazon, 

 eastern Peru. 



Specimens examined. — Peru: Xeberos, 1 d" (Type). Venezuela: 

 Sierra de Carabobo, 1 cf ; Upper Caura River, 2 9 9. Dutch 

 Guiana: "Surinam," 1 a 71 . French Guiana: Pied Saut (Oyapock), 

 8 cfcf, 7 9 9; Tamanoir (Mana River), 10 dV, 13 99. North- 

 eastern Brazil: Demonti (Oyapock), 1 9 ; North Para, 2 cfd\ 2 9 9 . 

 Total, 48. 



Remarks. — We cannot detect any difference between the type 

 from Peru and several examples in the large series from Guiana. 



Allenia fusca (P. L. S. Muller). 



Muscicapa fiisca P. L. S. Muller, Natursyst. suppl., 1776, p. 170 (Martinique). 

 Mwcicapa fusca Boddaert, Tabl. PI. enl., 1783, p. 33 (not of p. 34), pi. 568, 

 fig. 2. * 



