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Show 510 DR. H*. VON IHERING ON THE [Apr. 18,, the wing green instead of red ; and Crax sulcirostris, with a large sulcus descending longitudinally on each side of the beak. Both are apparently from near the mouth of the Tiete Biver. Colonel C. Schmidt, of Bio Claro, has informed me that the Chrysotis is common in that part of the Tiete, and is called " Papagaio inglez." I have described the two species in order to call attention to them. I have sent some other specimens which may belong to new species to the British Museum and Count Berlepsch. That in a fauna of nearly 600 species so few only are new to science shows how much work has already been done on the Ornithology of Southeastern Brazil. Besides the two new species, the following are restricted to the province of Sao Paulo, if I am correctly informed :- 1. Basileuterus leucophrys Pelz. 5. Eucephala cceruleodavata Gould. 2. Spermophila melanoyaster Pelz. 6. Ptoehoptera ioleema (Reich.). 3. Hapalocercus rufomaryinatus Pelz. 7. Astur polioyaster (Temm.). 4. Anabazenops amaurotis (Temm.). 8. Stenopsis platura Pelz. These seem to be essentially species of the Western Zone of the State, where we have hitherto made no collections, and this may be the reason why I have not yet obtained these rare forms, with the exception of the Stenopsis. Of this species Natterer collected only the female, aud as my specimen is a male, the question whether this is a good species has been decided in favour of Natterer. Possibly one or more of these species may be recognized as having been previously described; as may also be the case with Astur poliogaster. Then there is a series of other species which seem to occur only in Sao Paulo and Bio de Janeiro ; such as Ceratotriccus furcatus (Lafr.), Pogonotriccus eximius (Temm.), Elainea caniceps (Sw.), Laihria virussu Pelz., Biatas nigropectus (Lafr.), Cephalolepis delalandii (Vieill.), and Macropsalis creagra (Bp.). It is very probable that all these species have really a wider distribution, as statements of their occurrence may have been overlooked by me. It is also to be presumed that, with the progress of the ornithological explorations of Brazil, they may be found in some of the adjoining States. In contrast to these species of restricted occurrence, there are very many others of wide distribution in our Avifauna. Of the species enumerated in m y list, ninety-three occur all through Brazil, from its southern boundary to Para, sixty-eight in Brazil and in other parts of South America, twenty-nine in South and North America, and eight are of an almost cosmopolitan distribution. These eight are Strix fiammea, Nycticorax nycticorax ncevius, Arenaria interpres, Charadrius dominions, Gelochelidon anglica, Sterna maxima, Oceanites oceanicus, and Majaqueus cequi-noctialis. Altogether there are 198 species of wide distribution • that is, about one-third of all the species occurriug in Sao Paulo. The number of widely dispersed species is very different in the various orders. If the two species of Ceophlceus ought to be united into one, there is no species of the order Pici occurring throughout |