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subdivision ; but at present I do not know of any genus in which the bird could be more c y ple

one to which I have assigned it.

Genus Arnantocuroa, Gould.

(“Agavros, obscurus, et xpéa, color.)
Generic characters. i
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Male.— Bill stout, rather longer than the head, and slightly arched ; wings broad and moderately long; tai
square and moderately large ; tarsi clothed ; hind toe rather short.
Sexes alike in the sombre colouring of the plumage.

Vol: 1. Pl.

62. APHANTOCHROA CIRRHOCHLORIS

Campylopterus campylostylus, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 329. 2. a
Aphantochroa cirrochloris, Reich. Aufz.der Col.p.15; Id. Troch. Enum. p.12; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii.p.14.
Habitat. Brazil.

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63. APHANTOCHROA GULARIS, Gould : : : : ; : : : ‘ : Vol. IT. Pl. 55.

Habitat. Banks of the Napo.

Genus Do.erisca, Cad.

The typic species of this form is the Trochilus fallax of M. Bourcier, a bird distinguished by its tawny-coloured
breast, and by the white tippings of its outer tail-feathers. JI wish it to be understood that I do not include in this
genus the albicollis or the chionogaster, which have been inadvertently figured as pertaining to it. At the same time
were I to state that the genus is confined to a single species, I believe that I should be leading ornithologists into
error ; for I have a specimen which, I think, will prove to belong to a second. The example in question, although
bearing all the general characteristics of the D. fallaa, differs in some minor details, and I shall therefore provision-
ally propose for it the specific name of cervina.

64. DoLerRisca FALLAX.

Leucippus fallax : : : : : : ; : : ; : : Vol. IE, Pl. 56:

Dolerisca fallax, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p- 6.

Habitat. Venezuela.

65. DoLerRisca ceRvina, Gould.

Habitat. Unknown.

TMhia AKT had Vo “yer 7 .
his new species is larger than the D. fallax in all its admeasurements
the tips of the outer tail-feathers.

, and has a less amount of white on
In D. fallax these greyish-white tippings occupy both webs of the apical portion
of each of the three outer feathers, while in the cervina the inner webs only are thus marked; these marks are
about three-eighths of an inch long on the outer feather, a quarter of an inch on the next, and but a little more
than an eighth on the third ; the upper mandible in D. cer

vina is reddish brown, while in D. fallax the upper one is
black. The habitat of the latter is well known to be V

enezuela, but that of the former has yet to be ascertained.

Genus Urocuroa Gould.

(Ovpa, cauda, et pda, color.)
Generic characters.

Male.— Bill lengthened and straight, or slightly arched ; wings moderately long and pointed ; tail square ; tarsi
. 8 @ Led. 5 ) Square ; tar:

partly clothed ; hind toe as long as the middle toe - nails short.

Female.— Unknown.

Of this remarkable form only one species is at present known

66. Urocuroa Bovucurrt

; ‘ . ; : ; Vole Rie aye

Habitat. Nanegal, in Ecuador.

 

 
  
     
  
 
  
    
    
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
 
  
    
   
 
   

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