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Nos. 955, 959, 960, 961, 971, 989, 990. 29 ad. and imm., Maruins, 29, 30. vi., 
5, 10. vii, 1908. “Iris brown, feet grey or greyish brown, bill black.”— Wing 
91—99 ; tail 383—42; bill 223-24 mm.—* Lives on the ground” (W. H.). 
The majority of the skins have the apical bands of the upper wing-coverts 
rather deeper, more ochraceous buff, than Guianan specimens ; in immature birds 
these edges are much narrower and paler in colour. All examples (of both sexes) 
have a pure white band across the inner web of the remiges. 
R. torquata has rather a wide range in South America east of the Andes. It is 
common in French and British Guiana ; Natterer met with it at Barra do Rio Negro 
(= Mandos) and near Borba ; Buckley obtained specimens at Sarayacu, in Eastern 
Ecuador ; Linden procured it near Santarem,* and Snethlage near Monte Alegre on 
the Amazons,t in Villa Braga, Tapajéz, as well as at Alcobaca, Tocantins.f 
In Western Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica no representative of the genus has 
as yet been ascertained to occur, though in Nicaragua a very near ally, R. stictoptera 
Salvin,t is met with. It differs by having the pileam much daller, rufescent 
brown with distinct blackish edges to the feathers (instead of nearly uniform deep 
rufous brown); the upper and under tail-coverts dull rafescent brown (not bright 
cinnamon-rufous) ; the rectrices dull olive-brown ; the pale band across the inner 
web of the remiges and the under wing-coverts bright buff (the latter being, in 
R. torquata, banded with black and white), etc., etc. The female, like that of 
R. torquata, has the throat and foreneck ferruginous (not black). There are two 
$d and one ¢ from Nicaragua (Matagalpa and Rio Grande) in the Tring Museum. 
[253. Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigromaculata (Lafr. & D’Orb.). 
Cf. Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 388, 
Left bank of the Rio Madeira : Hamaytha (Hoffmanns). Not obtained on his 
second trip. ] 
254. Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani Ridgw. 
Phlegopsis bowmani (Riker MS.) Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 1887. p. 524 (1888.—Diamantina 
near Santarem, right bank of Tapajéz) ; Snethlage, Journ. f. Orn, 1908. p. 513 (Villa Braga, 
left bank of Tapajéz). 
P. nigromaculata (nec Lafr, & Orb.) Pelzeln, i.c. p. 90 (part. : Borba). 
Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 388 (Borba). 
Nos. 26, 60, 65, 230, 313, 376, 385. dd ad., imm., and juov., Calama, 12, 17. 
vi., 16, 31. vii, 11, 12. viii. 1907. “Iris brown, feet and bill black, naked space 
round the eye bright red.”—Wing 87—94; tail 57—62 ; bill 20—21 mm. 
Nos. 43, 55, 62, 69, 266, 558 9 ad. and imm., Calama, 14, 17, 18. vi. 
24. viii, 17. ix. 1907. Soft parts as above-—Wing 86—90; tail 57—62; bill 
19—21 mm. 
Nos. 748, 756. oo ad., Allianca, 6, 7. xi. 1907.—Wing 91, 92; tail 56, 62; 
bill 20 mm. 
Nos. 746, 749. 22 ad., Allianca, 5, 6. xi. 1907.—Wing 84, 85; tail 57, 60; 
bill 18, 19 mm. 
Nos. 976, 994, 1025. od ad., 3 imm., Maruins, 6, 10, 16. vii. 1908.—Wing 
91—93 ; tail 62—63; bill 20 mm. 
* Allen, Bull. Essex Inst. viii. 1876. p. 80. 
t Journ. f. Orn. 1907. p. 287 ; Zc. 1908. pp. 513, 533. : 
t Bull. B. O. C. i. p. xxxii, (1893,—Santo Domingo, Nicaragua), 
