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Show 754 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 27, TINAMID.E. 199. Tinamus parvirostris RALLID.E. 200. Porzana cayanensis .... 201. Heliornis fulica SCOLOPACID.E. 202. Tringites rufescens 203. Tringa maculata ARDEID.E. 204. Ardea agami LARIDA. 205. Rhynchops melanurus .. M OS 3 DI rt a £ 3 03 .a The following notes apply to such of the above-mentioned species as are marked (*f) :- (1.) TURDUS PH^EOPYGUS, Cab. Chyavetas. Three examples; rather darker on the back than Cayenne specimens. (4.) TROGLODYTES TESSELLATUS, Lafr. et D'Orb. Four examples from Xeberos and Chyavetas. Bather more fulvous below than in Panama specimens. (5.) BASILEUTERUS UROPYGIALIS, Sclater, P.Z. S. 1861, p. 128, et 1866, p. 286, t. x. f. 2. One example from Chyavetas, agreeing with the type in Sclater's collection. This is a singular locality for the species, as we had believed it to be peculiar to Panama. (7.) PROGNE LEUCOGASTRA, Baird. Many skins from Xeberos and Yurimaguas. " Generally seen in flocks about the church at Yurimaguas."-E. B. (29.) TACHYPHONUS PHCENICEUS, Sw. An. in Menageries, p. 311; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856, p. 116. Three examples of this scarce species from Xeberos. Natterer obtained specimens on the Madeira. (31.) TACHYPHONUS SURINAMUS (Linn.). Many specimens from Xeberos and Chyavetas of both sexes of a local form of T. surinamus, which is probably the bird indicated by Lawrence (Ann. L. N. Y. viii. p. 42) as T. napensis. It differs from |