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and Heine to be properly separable ; and for it they proposed the name Septuas

‘1 the ‘Museum Heineanum’ (iv. p. 206). Of this scarce species two specimens, an

bird exist in the Berlin Museum, besides those mentioned in this work.

Cabanis

adult and a young

The following additional remarks on species are necessary, 1m order to include the
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observations of ornithologists which have been published during the progress of the present

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work through the press.

PHAROMACRUS.
P. MOCINNO.
Since the text accompanying the Plate of this species was written, I have noticed
that Bonaparte in his ‘Conspectus Volucrum Zygodactylorum, p. 14, adopts the specific
name mocinno, thus furnishing further evidence in favour of the priority of that name

over his title of paradiseus.

P. AURICEPS.

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A name (P. heliactin) has been proposed by Messrs. Cabanis and Heine (Mus. Hein.

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the more northern bird, but not otherwise different. As Specimens from Antioquia are

intermediate in size, and as size alone is a specific character of very doubtful value,

I think that the Ecuadorean bird had best be considered

 

merely a race of P. auriceps

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pecies. In like manner the P. xanthogaster described by Counts Turati

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and Salvadori (P. Z. 8. 1874, p- 652), I have little doubt, is a variety of P. auriceps, but

of interest w val > EC ;
terest when the relationship of T. aurantiiventris to 7. puella is considered.

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