73 [Vol. xv. 



that the accounts so far published on the subject were not 

 altogether reliable. 



Mr. C. E. Hellmayr described a new species of Tyrant 

 from Brazil as follows : — 



Phyllomyias reiseri, n. sp. 



Nearly allied to P. virescens (Temm.) ( = burmeisteri, Cab. 

 & Heine), from which it differs in its much smaller size and in 

 having the forehead ashy-grey, the back decidedly yellowish- 

 green (not dull olive-greenish), the under surface paler yellow, 

 the fore-neck being slightly mixed with whitish, and the 

 yellow wing-bands rather broader. In the ashy-grey fore- 

 head it agrees with P. venezuelensis, Hartert, but the latter 

 species is considerably larger, has the back dull olive-greenish 

 and the wing-bands decidedly paler, more yellowish-white. In 

 form and in the colour of the bill the new species agrees with 

 its two allies, the bill being only somewhat smaller. Upper 

 mandible blackish, lower whitish. The tarsi and toes much 

 shorter and weaker than in P. virescens and P. venezuelensis. 



Wing 54, tail 50^, tarsus 14^, bill 9 mm. 



Type in the Vienna Museum : <$ ad. Grotao, on the 

 way from S. Antonio to S. Philomena, State of Piauhy, 

 N.E. Brazil, 7 July, 1903. Collected by Mr. Othmar Reiser 

 (No. 1063). 



This novelty forms part of the collections brought together 

 by the expedition of the Vienna Academy of Science to 

 N.E. Brazil. It is named in honour of Mr. Othmar Reiser, 

 who accompanied the party as ornithologist. 



Mr. Hellmayr also remarked : — 



" I take this opportunity to correct a mistake. At the 

 meeting of this Club in March 1904, I exhibited a specimen 

 of Copurus funebris from South Brazil and declared this species 

 to be quite different from C. colonus. I regret to say, I had 

 then entirely overlooked the remarks by Count Berlepsch 

 (Journ. f. Ornith. 1873, pp. 256-258) on the same subject. 

 Lately, I have been able to compare the large series in the 



