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Identical with Peruvian and Venezuelan (Caura) specimens. 
P. stellaris ranges all over the great Amazonian forest region, from Surinam, 
Cayenne, and Parad to the eastern slopes of the Andes in Ecuador and Pern. 
Notwithstanding this wide area I cannot make out any local races. 
212. Myrmotherula pygmaea (Gm.). 
Muscicapa pygmaza Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1, ii. p. 933 (1789.—ex D’Aubenton, Pl, enl. 831. fig. 2: 
_ Cayenne). . 
Myrmotherula pygmaea Pelzeln, l.c. p. 80 (Guajaraguagu, Rio Mamoré) ; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 
p. 382 (Borba, Humaytha). 
No. 844. ¢ imm., Marmellos, 21. vii. 1907.— Wing 42; tail 19; bill 13 mm. 
Nos. 77, 293. 2 ad.,(¢) imm., Calama, 19. vi., 29. vii. 1907.—Wing 40, 44; 
tail 18, 21; bill 13, 15 mm. 
“Tris brown, feet light green or pale plumbeous, bill black, below grey.” 
Within Brazilian limits M. pygmaea does not seem to have been met with 
east of the Madeira basin, although, in the north of the South American continent, 
it ranges as far as French Guiana. The Munich Museum possesses a large series 
from Cayenne, Venezuela (Caura Valley), Eastern Ecuador (Napo), and Bogota. 
213. Myrmotherula surinamensis multostriata Scl. 
[Sitta surinamensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 442 (1788.—based on “Surinam Nuthatch,” Latham, 
Gen. Syn. Birds 1. ii. p. 654. pl. 28 (= 2): Sarinam).] 
Myrmotherula multostriata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. xxvi. 1858, p. 234. pl. exli. figs. 2(¢), 
3 (? ) (1858.— Ucayali, East Peru). 
M. surinamensis multostriata Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 382 (Humaytha). 
No. 165. 3 ad., Calama, 5. vii. 1907.—Wing 51; tail 26; bill 13 mm. 
No. 847. ¢ ad., Marmellos, 22. xii. 1907.—Wing 48; tail 24; bill 13 mm. 
No. 838. 3 imm., Marmellos, 21. xii. 1907.—Wing 48; tail 27; bill 13 mm, 
No. 164. ? ad., Calama, 4. vii. 1907.—Wing 49; tail 28; bill 13 mm. 
No. 532. ¢ ad., Jamarysinho, Rio Machados, 10. ix, 1907.—Wing 49; tail 24; 
bill 183 mm. 
No. 837. 2 ad., Marmellos, 21. xii, 1907.—Wing 48; tail 25 ; bill (damaged) 
— mm. ) 
“Tris brown, feet pluambeous, bill black, below grey.” af 
This series is typical of multostriata. The females have the sides of the head 
paler or deeper buff with dusky streaks (not uniform clear cinnamon-rufous as in 
surinamensis), the under parts marked with very distinct, though narrow, blackish 
shaft-stripes on a creamy white ground, and the foreneck as well as the breast 
washed with buff. The middle of the abdomen alone is creamy white, without 
streaks. Two of the females have the whole pileum, almost to the base of the 
bill, striped with black, while in that from Calama the anterior portion is uniform 
ferrnginous as in surinamensis, but of a lighter hue. Birds from Para and the 
Rio Tapajéz, for which I am indebted to Miss Snethlage, are likewise referable 
to multostriata. 
The synonymy and range of M. s. multostriata are as follows :— 
M, r. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1858, p. 234. pl. exli. figs, 2, 3 (Ucayali, 
ted Paar ake alti’ ia 1866, p. 185 (Upper Ucayali) : idem, Le. 1873, p. 274 (Upper 
Ucayali, Santa Cruz, Eastern Peru) ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. Birds 1862. p. 179 (Upper Amazon— 
Bates, erroneously registered as type). 
