1088 MK. C. E. HELLMAYR OX THE 



skins from Oumbi^e de Valencia, Venezuela, have decidedly smaller 

 bills. Typical Bolivian birds are not available for comparison. 

 M. ralloides is probably divisible into several geographical races. 



4. Helegdytes albobuunneus harterti Berl. 



\Heleodytes alho-hrunneus Lawrence, Ibis, iv. p. 10 (1862. — 

 " On the line of the Panama Railroad near the summit of the 

 Atlantic Slope ".)] 



Heleoclytes harterti Berlepsch, Ornis, xiv. p. 347 (Feb. 1907. — 

 San Jose, Rio Dagua, W. Colombia). 



No. 2522. d ad"^. El Tigre, Rio Tamana, 320 ft., 9.ii.09.--Wing 

 92; tail 88; bill 23 mm. 



No. 2523. 5 ad. Same locality and date.— Wing 83 ; tail 78 ; 

 bill 20 mm. 



" Iris reddish brown, feet grey, bill^black." 



The specimens agree in coloration with the types kindly lent by 

 Count Berlepsch, and have the back, wings, and tail very much 

 darker, more brownish black, than typical cdbobrimneus from 

 Panama. The dusky markings of the under tail-coverts are 

 less regular, more spot-like, and the bill is black instead of 

 pale brown. The difference in size, however, proves to be not 

 constant, the female from Choc6 being scarcely larger than 

 Panama examples *. It may be mentioned that the female has 

 the head all round pure white like the male, while that of alho- 

 hrunneus is said to have the pileum clouded or streaked with 

 pale brown. 



H. a. harterti is as yet known only from the Choco district in 

 Western Colombia. 



5. Leucolepis ph.eocephalus ph,^ocephalus Scl. 



Cyphorinus (sic) pha^ocephalus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 291 

 (end of 1860. — Esmeraldas, N.W.Ecuador); Sclater & Salvin, 

 P. Z. S. 1879, p. 492 (Remedies, Antioquia). 



Cyphorhinus hrunnescens Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 293 

 (1881. — "Cauca Valley," sc. Remedies). 



No. 2555. 5 ad. Juntas, R. Tamana, 24.ii.09. — Wing 66 ; 

 tail 32 ; bill 20 mm. 



"Iris brown, feet dark brown, bill black." 



This specimen, a perfectly adult bird, agrees exactly with topo- 

 typical examples from N.W. Ecuador (S. Javier), and others from 

 Chimbo. Perhaps it is a trifle darker chestnut on the back and 

 slightly deeper rufous underneath. The type of C. brunnescens 

 Sharpe, which I have examined in the British Museum, is merely 

 a young bird of C. phceocephalus . Ecuadorian specimens in cor- 

 i-esponding plumage are exactly like it. Moreover, it is a well- 

 known fact that in the species of this genus the young birds have 

 the upper parts lighter, more olivaceous brown, and the throat, 



* Two specimens measure; w'ws 80-82; tail 79; bill I'J-iyi i"i"- 



