502 
Count T. Salvadori on the 
of Cotopaxi, belonged to the distinct species which had. been 
described by Graf von Berlepsch and M. Stolzmann under 
the name of T. branickii * * * § from specimens collected at 
Junin, Maraynioc, and Pariayacu, on the highlands of Peru. 
On turning to the British Museum Catalogue I was much 
surprised to find that Dr. Sharpe t had failed to recognize 
T. branickii as a distinct species, under the impression 
that the differences of plumage relied on by the describers 
for the separation of T. branickii from T. melanopis were 
only those of age or season. Moreover, I soon found out 
that the synonymy and geographical ranges attributed by 
Dr. Sharpe to the two species T. melanopis and T. caudatus 
recognized by him, required revision. 
In order to settle several questions concerning the species 
of the genus Theristicus , I addressed myself also to Dr. Finsch, 
requesting him to give me some information as regards the 
specimens in the Leyden Museum, which had been attributed 
by Dr. Schlegel J to a single species, T. melanopis , while it 
appeared to me that they must clearly belong to two distinct 
species. Dr. Finsch took the opportunity of his researches 
to publish the result of his enquiries in a paper under 
the title “Ueber die Arten der Gattung Theristicus Wagl/'’ §. 
Dr. Finsch also recognized in this paper that T. branickii 
was a species distinct from T. melanopis , and, besides 
that, described what he believed to be a new allied species 
under the name T. columbianus. 
But it seems that both Dr. Sharpe and Dr. Finsch have 
ignored the very accurate notes by Graf von Berlepsch and 
M. Stolzmann on the synonymy and geographical distribution 
of T. melanopis and T. caudatus } published in their paper 
“ Resultats des Recherches ornithologiques faites au Perou 
par Jean Kalinowski ” ||. 
This is the present state of things as regards the species 
* Ibis, 1894, p. 404. 
t Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 23. 
X Mus. des Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 7. 
§ Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. xxi. pp. 23-26 (1899). 
i P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 322-388. 
