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Mr. O. Salvin's Visit to the 
Myiodynastes atrifrons, Scl. 
A specimen of this species, collected by Prof. Orton at 
Tumbez, in Peru, also bears the name M. bairdi, Gamb. On 
looking up these names I find that Mr. Sclater's bird must 
be referred to Saurophagus bairdi , Gambel, Journ. Ac. N. S. 
Phil. i. p. 40 (1847), the supposed locality (“ California”) 
being, of course, erroneous. The species must therefore stand 
as follows :— 
Myiodynastes bairdi. 
Saurophagus bairdi , Gambel, ut supra. 
Tyrannus atrifrons, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 274. 
Myiodynastes atrifrons , Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 43; et Cat. 
Am. B. 223; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. p. 50 (1873). 
Hab . Puna I., Gulf of Guayaquil [Barclay, in Mus. Brit.); 
Guayaquil [Mus. P. L. S.); Tumbez, Peru [Orton). 
Pipreola sclateri, Cornalia. 
A specimen of this rare bird, now in this museum, was ob¬ 
tained by Prof. Orton near Archidona, in Eastern Ecuador, 
at an elevation of about 1500 feet above the sea-level. 
Synallaxis maculata, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. x. p. 186 
(1872). 
This bird, the type of which is in the Yassar College col¬ 
lection, has already been determined by Mr. Sclater to be 
Synallaxis stictothorax [Cf. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 12, t. ii. f. 1). 
The type, however, is rather whiter beneath than is shown in 
the plate. 
Brachygalba lugubris, Sw. 
The Jacamar in Vassar-College Museum, thus identified by 
Mr. Lawrence (Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 274), is undoubtedly the 
bird we described as B. goeringi (Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, 
p. 253). It remains to be seen whether Mr. Lawrence was 
correct in referring it to Swainson's bird. Swainson distinctly 
says that his bird is three-toed, and he says nothing about the 
deep rufous patch on the middle of the abdomen. I should be 
disposed to place less stress upon Swain son's statement that the 
bird he described had three toes, had we not a genus (, Jacamar - 
