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alis caudaque nigris, rectricum apicibus albis; remigibus secon^ 

 dariis et alarum at que caudcB tectricibus superioribus omnibus 

 maculis magnis, rotundis, albis terminatis. 

 $ Fusco-brunnea ; subtus pallide cervino-rufa ; maculis alarum et 



caudcE dare cervinis neque albis. 

 Long, tota 5*3 ; alee 2*8 ; caudse 1*8. 

 Hab. In Peruvia, Chamicurros. 



My examples of this curiously marked bird were obtained from 

 the MM. Verreaux, and are from the same locality as the preceding 

 species. Mr. Gould's collection from Chamicurros likewise contains 

 specimens of both sexes. 



The round spots, which render this bird a very recognizable species, 

 are placed in the wing-coverts at the apex of each feather. In the 

 secondaries they occupy the end of the outer web, being in the first 

 six nearest the primaries rather small, in the three outer larger and 

 squarer in form. The upper tail-coverts are much produced, and 

 are conspicuously terminated with oval white spots. The tail- 

 feathers are ended only with spots, which are larger on the outer 

 rectrices. 



3. Hypocnemis MELANOLiEMA, Sclatcr. * 

 CinereuSy subtus valde dilutior ; interscapularibus basi niveis ; 



loris et oculorum ambitu cum cervice laterali et gutture toto 

 nigris ; linea superciliari indistiticte albida; tectricibus alarum 

 nigris, fascia terminali alba ; remigibus et rectricibus fuscis, 

 externe cinereis ; rostra nigro, pedibus pallidis. 

 Long, tota 5*0; alse 2*5; caudse 1*6. 

 Hab. In Peruvia, Chamicurros. 



This species seems nearly allied in form to the bird named Hypo- 

 cnemis poecilonota by Dr. Cabanis (Orn. Not. in Wiegm. Archiv f. 

 Nat. 1847. p. 213), and I have therefore placed it temporarily in 

 the same genus. My specimen comes, like those of the preceding 

 species, from MM. Verreaux's Peruvian collection ; and Mr. Gould 

 has one example marked ^'male, irides red,'^ from Chamicurros, 

 which agrees with mine. From the same Peruvian collection I have 

 also Hypocnemis pcecilonota (Cab.) and H. cantator (Bodd.), the 

 type of the genus, or a species hardly to be distinguished there- 

 from. 



4. Hypocnemis melanosticta, Sclater. 



<? Ex cinereo olivascens ; interscapularibus basi niveis ; tectricibus 

 alarum nigris, albo anguste terminatis ; loris et regione auriculari 

 nigris ; subtus cinereus, gutture toto et ventre medio albis ; punc- 

 tis paucis rotundis in summo pectore nigris ; rostro nigro, pedibus 

 pallidis. 

 ? Supra rufescenti-olivacea, alarum tectricum marginibus et abdo- 

 mine toto pallide ochraceis ; gutture, sicut in mari, albo; mandi- 

 bula inferiore, nisi apice, alba. 



Long, tota 5*0 ; alee 25 ; caudse 1*6. 



Hab. In Peruvia, Chamicurros. 



