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rufous breast, however, renders it readily distinguishable as well from JF’. analis as from 
all its congeners. | 
F. rufipectus was described from a single skin (marked @ ) obtained by our collector 
Arcé at Santiago de Veraguas!; he some years afterwards secured us a second specimen. 
We have also received from the late Clarence Buckley a skin, agreeing with the type, 
from Baisa in Ecuador, suggesting that F. thoracicus* may refer to the same species. 
h’. Plume supranasales elongate, prorecte. 
PHLOGOPSIS. 
Phlegopis, Reichenbach, Av. Syst. t. 57 (1850). 
Phlogopsis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 276 ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 299. 
This genus contains five or six species, all more or less remarkable for their structure 
and colour. One species, P. macleannani, is characteristic of the southern section of 
the Central-American fauna. The rest belong to the Amazons Valley from the eastern 
slopes of the Andes to Para. 
The bill in P. macleannani is rather stout, the culmen somewhat elevated and slightly 
curved, the nostrils are slightly oval and open, the frontal feathers are rather elongated 
and directed forwards, the lower portion of the lores and the whole orbital space, except 
asmall tuft of short, curved feathers over the anterior portion of the latter, quite nude ; 
both the acrotarsium and planta are devoid of scutella; the tail is long and much 
rounded. 
Most of these characters are in strong contrast to those of Formicarius, near which 
Phiogopsis has usually found a place. 
1. Phlogopsis macleannani. 
Phlogopsis macleannani, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. pp. 285°, 29475 ix. p. 109°; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1864, p. 3574; Ex. Orn. p. 17, t. 9°; Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p..145°; 1872, p. 318’; 
Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 415°; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 115° ; 
Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 300 ™. | 
Capite summo umbrino-brunneo, fronte et superciliis magis canescentibus ; cervice postica fascia transversa 
rufo-castanea; dorso, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum omnibus umbrinis, plumis singulis macula magna 
subapicali nigra, dorso postico umbrino immaculato ; tectricibus supracaudalibus longissimis, ad apicem fere 
nigris: subtus gutture toto nigro, pectore et abdomine castaneis, plumis singulis sicut dorso nigro maculatis, 
maculis pectoralibus fere celatis, colore castaneo ad crinum in umbrinum transeunte; oculorum ambitu . 
nudo, ave vivo ceruleo: rostro nigro, pedibus cum unguibus flavis. Long. tota 7:5, ale 3°5, caude rectr. 
med. 3:3, rectr. lat. 2°45, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 1-25. (Descr. maris ex Santiago de Veraguas, Panama. 
Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt 7); Costa Rica, Tucurriqui (Arcé*), Angostura 
(Carmiol?), Rio Sucio (J. Cooper ®, Zeledon®); Panama, Santiago de Veraguas 
(Arcé ®), Lion Hill (M*Leannan *?*). 
