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Show 568 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [May 23, wallacii. Mr. Wallace has kindly furnished us with notes upon some of the species, which are indicated by his initials. Fam. TURDID^. 1. T U R D U S PHJSOPYGUS, Cab. (Pl. XXIX.) Cobati, Rio Negro, 1851, two examples, " eyes olive." In Sclater's collection from Para. The young of this species has a good deal of black colouring on the edges of the breast-feathers, which wear off in the adult, and leave the breast pure grey. One of Mr. Wallace's skins is a bird of the year and exhibits this plumage, which, however, is still more strikingly shown in a still younger specimen in Sclater's collection, shot by Mr. C. Bartlett on the Maroni River, Surinam, in the spring of 1866, and represented in Plate XXIX. 2. TURDUS ALBIVENTRIS, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 70, t. 69 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 4 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 666. Turdus ephippialis, Scl. P. Z. S.1862, p. 109; Cat. A.B.App. p. 358. Mexiana, Dec. 1848, one example. In reviewing the American Turdi for our proposed ' Index Avium Americanarum' we have clearly made out that Sclater's Turdus ephippialis is the true T. albiventris of Spix, as determined by Cabanis, I. s. c. The bird hitherto called T. albiventris by Sclater is amaurochalinus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 5. 3. TURDUS FUMIGATUS, Licht. Mexiana, Dec. 1848, one example. 4. DONACOBIUS ATRICAPILLUS (Linn.). Para, one example; also obtained on tbe Upper Amazons, June 1850, one example. " This species frequents the reed-beds and low trees on the banks of the Amazons, and has a very fine song."-A. W . Fam. TROGLODYTID^E. 5. T H R Y O P H I L U S LEUCOTIS (Lafr.). Thryothorus leucotis, Lafr. R. Z. 1845, p. 338. T. albipectus, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 673, et Sclater, Cat. A. B. p. 20. T. galbraithi, Lawrence ; Baird, Rev. A. B. p. 131. Island of Marajo, Feb. 1849, one example. This example agrees with Cayenne skins of the species hitherto called T. albipectus in Sclater's collection. But Lafresnaye's name is the oldest and must be adopted. As to the distribution of this species, see our note, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 345. 6. TROGLODYTES FURVUS (Gm.). Para, August 1848, one example. |