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Show 1867.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CHILIAN BIRDS. 327 Cyanotis azarce (Naum.) (C. omni color, auct. ex Vieill.) is stated by Gay to be found throughout Chili (op. cit. p. 321), although not very abundantly. Lieut. Gilliss also notes its occurrence in Chili*. Serpophaga parvirostris (Gould) and Anceretes parulus (Kittl.) are both unquestionable Chilian species. Of the latter Mr. Salvin has a skin received direct from Herr Leybold of Santiago. I have reputed Chilian specimens of both these species, and have compared those of the former with Mr. Gould's types in the British Museum. Of the difficult genus Elainea but one species, as far as I know, occurs in Chili. This is the bird called "Elainea albiceps, D'Orb.," in the ' Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle " (iii. p. 47), and stated by Mr. Darwin to be "occasionally found near Valparaiso in Central Chile." I have two examples of this species from Chili, one of them received direct from Mr. Leybold; so that there can be no doubt about the locality. They agree quite well with the typical specimens of m y E. griseigularis from Ecuadorf, and are probably of the same species. I am also now of opinion that they can hardly be separated from E. modesta, Tsch., although I have kept these two species apart in m y American Catalogue (p. 217)- But I am doubtful as to whether they have been rightly referred to E. albiceps (Lafr. et D'Orb.). The species I have hitherto placed under the latter designation is decidedly distinct, being much larger in size, though generally similar in colouring. The descriptions given of E. albiceps would apply nearly equally well to both of these birds ; and I therefore propose for the present to retain modesta as the name of the Chilian bird, until reference can be made to D'Orbigny's types. Fam. PHYTOTOMIDiE. Phytotoma rara, the oldest and best-known species of this group, is from Chili; and, according to D'Orbigny, is common in the ravines in the environs of Valparaiso. Order PICARI.E. Fam. ALCEDINIDAE. Ceryle stellata (Meyen). It seems to be very doubtful whether this Western-Coast form, which Meyen first separated from C. torquata, is really specifically distinct. Mr. G. R. Gray has reunited them (Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii. p. 42; and List of Fissirostres, p. 61). I have a skin from Cayenne, which appears to be quite as much spotted on the back and wing-coverts as the Chilian bird. Fam. CAPRIMULGIDAE. The only Chilian species of this family of which I have seen au- * Gilliss's Exp. ii. p- 186. t P. Z. S. 1858, p. 554, pl. 146. fig. 1. |
