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as a locality where it is abmidant ;• and the European dealers are nsually well supplied with
skins o f the well-known “ make" o f that colony. lilchard Schomburgk, as we h a ïe already
mentioned, met with it in the Eoraima mountains, in the interior o f British Gniana, at an
altitude o f about 1000 feet, when engaged in ins search for the ripe seeds o f the Strychnine
( Sirychnos to x ife ra j Mr. Wallace encountered it on the opposite side o f its range, on the Serra de
Cobati, ncai- Guia on the Upper Eio Negro.
The specimens o f the Peruvian Cock-of-the-roek {R, peruviana) that Inwe come before us,
have heen mostly received iu collections from Bogota. Whether these were collected in tlie
v alley o f the Magdelena, or on the opposite watershed, or both, we have no means o f ascertaining.
Goudot, whoso nesting-experienees o f this species in New Granada we have before
alluded to, unfortunately does not give the exact locality where he observed it.
Tschudi speaks o f having seen many lumdred examples o f B . p a n a n a ,\ in Pern, but ho
also neglects to mention the precise district in which they occurred. We cannot, however, be
wrong iu supposing that it was in tlie eastern wood region of that country, as Markham mentions
having met ivith “ Cocks-of-the-rock’’ in the provinces o f Caravaya, on the upper afdncnts of
the Piirns.] Moreover, D’Oi'higiiy obtained examples o f this bird in the adjoining wood-region
o f Bolivia on the eastern slope o f the Andes o t Ymigas and in the nioimtains east of
C'ocIiabanil>a.§
A s regards tbe present species, 1Î. sanguinolenta, we bave already stated that we believe it to
be strictly confined to the Transandeau forests o f Ecuador. Cabanis and Heine, who have
described what we consider to be tbe same species, under the name of R . satarata, say that
tbeir specimens were stated to have been received from BoH-\da. But knowmg bow little reliance
is to be placed on tbe locabties given by dealers, we cannot help thinking there must have been
some error on this point.
Full reference to tbe sj-nonymy o f tbe three species will be found m Mr. Sclater’s Catalogue
o f American Bfrds, p. 253. Our figure is taken from one o f Fraser’s specimens, from Nanegal,
now in Mr. Sclater’s collection.
* W an d e rin g s in S o u th America, iv th ed. p. !
p Trav e ls in S o u th America, &c., p. 255.
t F a u n a P e ru an a , Aves, p. 143.
§ Voy. dan s I’Am. Me rid . Ois., p. 294. r
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