412 ' NOVITATES iooLoawxE XXiX. 1922. 



Does Dr. Chapman not know my views of subspecies, and that the fact whether 

 intergradation exists or not is an impossible criterion to prove that a form is a 

 subspecies or a species ? Whether intergradation exists or not cannot be known, 

 unless enormous series from exact locahties are at hand, and it entirely depends 

 on the material available whether such cases are known or not. In the case of 

 C. cavdata it is interesting to know that I now have received a male from Merida 

 from Briceiio, which actually has several blue feathers on the throat. According 

 to Chapman, I should not have treated caudata as a subspecies of kitngi, but 

 now I suppose I am entitled to do so ! 



1180. Psalidoprymna juliae Hart. = Psalidoprymna victoriae juliae. 



Psalidoprymna juliae Hartert (ex Lesbia juliae Berl. & Stolzm., nomen nudmn !), Nov. Zool. vi. 

 p. 75 (1899—" Northern Peru "). 



Type : ^ ad., Cajabamba, N. Peru, 9,000 feet, January 1894. O. T. 

 Baron leg. 



Though the differences from P. victoriae victoriae and aequatorialis are very • 

 striking, I beheve that it is most reasonable to treat P. juliae as a subspecies of 

 P. victoriae. 



■j- 1181. Heliomaster veraguensis Boucard = Anthoscenus longirostris stuartae. 



Heliomaster veraguensis Boucard, Oen. Humming B. p. 804 (1895 — Veragua). 



Cotjrpe : c? ad., Veragua, Arce leg. (Marked " type " by Boucard.) 

 The throats of Boucard's three males appear to be stained or the colour 

 altered in some other way. They belong to stuartae if that subspecies is 

 recognised, and it is certainly different from typical longirostris, which does 

 not occur in Colombia. 



1182. Lophomis verreauxi klagesi Berl. & Hart. = Lophornis verreauxi hlagesi. 



Lophornis verreauxi Uagesi Berlepsoh & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 89 (1902 — " In regione fluminis 

 Caura : Suapure, La Pricion "). 



Type : ^ ad., Suapure, Caura River, affluent of Orinoco, l.i.l900. S. M. 

 Klages leg. 



(The genus Lophornis might easily be split up into several genera from male 

 characters, but I do not approve of this. As in other famihes of Birds, among 

 mammals and insects, extreme spUtting of genera does not in any way advance 

 our knowledge, but makes study more difficult, besides adding to nomenclatorial 

 alterations and difficulties.) 



