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Show 632 ON VENEZUELAN BIRDS. [Dec. 10, meister seems to have taken it for the male of M. ferox, in which view he is followed by Pelzeln. Another skin in Sclater's collection from Dominica (E. C. Taylor) is probably also referable to this species, but presents some slight points of distinction. 57. MYIARCHUS VENEZUELENSIS, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1865, p. 38. In Sclater's collection are skins from Tobago and Bogota, apparently referable to this species, which is (somewhat doubtfully perhaps) distinguishable from M. ferox and M. swainsoni by the narrow rufous edgings to the wing- and tail-feathers. 59. HETEROPELMA STENORHYNCHUM, sp. nov. Mr. Goering sends us two skins of a Heteropelma, which belongs to the group allied to H. turdinum. It is nearly as large as that species, and therefore exceeds in size Sclater's specimens of H. wallacii * and H. amazonum. Below it is pale on the throat, like wallacii, but shows on the belly very faint indications of transverse markings, which are not discernible in the latter. Above it is most like //. amazonum, but not quite so dark in colour. The bill is narrower, and more compressed than that of any of the allied species, whence we assign it a provisional name. But it must be allowed that all four of these species are very closely allied, and it would be desirable to institute further comparisons between them when more specimens of H. wallacii and H. amazonum come to hand. Mr. Goering marks the iris of the bird as " greyish white." 88. CONURUS ^ERUGINOSUS. See our former remarks on this species, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 587. Mr. Goering's skin agrees with specimens of this Parrot living in the Society's Gardens. 92. ACCIPITER, sp.? Mr. Goering's collection contains a single skin of an Accipiter belonging to the erythrocnemis group. It is very nearly adult, but the sex is not marked. This bird most nearly resembles the Central- American form Accipiter chionogaster (figured in Exot. Orn. t. xiv.), being totally without transverse markings below. But it differs from A. chionogaster in the deep rufous colour of the tibise (in which respect it is more like A. erythrocnemis), in the more plumbeous tinge of the upper surface, and in the light-coloured bands of the tail being narrower. W e hope Mr. Goering will send us additional specimens of this species, which, for the present, we must leave undetermined. * Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 579. |
