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the wing green instead of red ; and Grax sulcirostris, with a large 

 sulcus descending longitudinally on each side of the beak. Both 

 are apparently from near the mouth of the Tiete Eiver. Colonel 

 C. Schmidt, of Eio Claro, has informed me that the Chrysotis is 

 common in that part of the Tiete, and is called " Pajmgaio inglez," 

 I have described the two species in order to call attention to them. 

 I have sent some other specimens which may belong to new species 

 to the British Museum and Count Berlepsch. That in a fauna of 

 nearly 600 species so few only are new to science shows how 

 much work has already been done on the Ornithology of South- 

 eastern Brazil. Besides the two new species, the following are 

 restricted to the province of Sao Paulo, if I am correctly in- 

 formed : — 



1. Basileuterus Icucophrys Pelz. 



2. Spermophila melanogaster Pelz. 



3. Hapalocercus rufomarginatus Pelz. 



4. Anabazenops amaurotis (Terain.). 



5. Eiicephala cmruleo-lavata Gould. 



6. Ptochoptera iolcema (Eeich.). 



7. Asttor poliog aster (Temm.). 



8. Stenopsis platura Pelz. 



These seem to be essentially species of the Western Zone of the 

 State, where we have hitherto made no collections, and this may 

 . be the reason why I have not yet obtained these rare forms, with 

 the exception of the Stenopsis. Of this species Natterer collected 

 only the female, and as my specimen is a male, the question 

 whether this is a good species has been decided in favour of 

 Natterer. Possibly one or more of these species may be recognized 

 as having been previously described ; as may also be the case 

 with Astur poliogaster. 



Then there is a series of other species which seem to occur only 

 in Sao Paulo and E,io de Janeiro ; such as Ceratotriccus furcatus 

 (Lafr.), Pogonotriccus eooimius (Temm.), Elainea caniceps (Sw.), 

 Lathria virussu Pelz., Biatas nigrojjectus (Lafr.), CephaloUpis 

 delalandii (Vieill.), and Macropsalis creagra (Bp.). It is very prob- 

 able that all these species have really a wider distribution, as 

 statements of their occurrence may have been overlooked by me. 

 It is also to be presumed that, with the progress of the ornitho- 

 logical explorations of Brazil, they may be found in some of the 

 adjoining States. 



In contrast to these species of restricted occurrence, there are 

 very many others of wide distribution in our Avifauna. 



Of the species enumerated in my hst, ninety-three occur all 

 through Brazil, from its southern boundary to Para, sixty-eight in 

 Brazil and in other parts of South America, twenty-nine in South 

 and North America, and eight are of an almost cosmopolitan 

 distribution. These eight are Strix flammea, Nycticorax nycticorax 

 ncevius, Arenaria interpres, Charadrius dominicus, Gelochelidon 

 anglica, Sterna maxima, Oceanites oceanicus, and Majaqueus cequi- 

 noctialis. Altogether there are 198 species of wide distribution ; 

 that is, about one-third of all the species occurring in Sao Paulo. 

 The number of widely dispersed species is very different in the 

 various orders. If the two species of CeopJdoeus ought to be united 

 into one, there is no species of the order Pici occurring throughout 



