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70. TODIROSTRUM CINEREUM CINEREUM Linn. 



Todus cinereus Linnfeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1, p. 178 (1766 — ex 

 Edwards, Glean. N. H. ii. p. 110, pi. 262. fig. inf._: Surinam). 



Todirosirtmi cinereuin Cassin, Proc. Acad. IST. Sci. Philad. 1860, 

 p. 144 (Carthagena) ; Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1879, p. 512 

 (Medellin, Santa Elena, Remedies). 



No. 1973. 6 ad. Guineo, Rio Calima : 6.viii.08.— Wing 44; 

 tail 35 ; bill 14 mm. 



" Iris white, feet blue-grey, bill black." 



Perfectly identical with specimens from Bogota, Venezuela 

 (San Esteban), Cayenne, etc. Chin and throat are yellow like the" 

 remaining under parts. 



In Western Ecuador this form is represented by Todirostrti'm 

 cinereu'm sclateri Cab. & Heine*, at once known by having tlie 

 chin and upper throat white. It extends southwards into the 

 district of Tumbez, N.W. Peru. 



71. CnIPODEOTES SUBBRUNNEUS SUBBRUNNEUS Scl. 



Cyclorhynchus sv,hhrunneus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 282 

 (I860.— Babahoyo, S.W. Ecuador). 



Cnipodectes subbrunoieus Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 514 (Remedios, Antioquia). 



No. 2509. 6 ad. Novita : 30.i.09.— Wing 94 ; tail 87 ; bill 

 17 mm. 



No. 2539. c? ad. El Tigre : 13.ii.09.— Wing 95; tail 92; 

 bill 17 mm. 



Nos. 2605, 2606. c^ c^ ad. Condoto : 16, 16.iv.09.— Wing 95, 

 92 ; tail 89, 86 ; bill 16^, 17 mm. 



No. 2591. c? ad. Condoto: 10.iv.09.— Wing 87; tail 83; 

 bill 16g mm. 



No. 2569. d imm. Novita : 15.iii.09.— Wing 75 ; tail 69; bill 

 16| mm. 



"Iris pink (in adults), brown (in imm. male, no. 2569), 

 feet grey, maxilla black, mandible pink (adults), horn-coloured 

 (young)." 



This series is most interesting, proving as it does that the so- 

 called " minor " from Panama and Western Ecuador are nothing 

 but the young of the larger sithhrunnetis. This had already 

 been suspected by me when, some years ago, I carefully studied and 

 measured the entire material in the British Museum, but in the 

 absence of a good series from any locality, it was then impossible 

 to arrive at a definite conclusion. The occurrence side by side of 

 these two " species " diflfering only in size always appeared to 

 me a phenomenon hardly reconcilable with modern views of 

 zoogeographical distribution. 



No. 2569, a young bird, as manifested by the flufiy texture of 

 the plumage, differs from the other specimens in its much shorter 



* Triccus Sclateri Caljanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 50 (1859.— Peru). 



