Mr. P. L. Sclater on Birds from the Republic of Ecuador. 281 



Menurin^e. 



21. Scytalopus griseicollis (Lafr.). 



Merulaxis griseicollisy Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 103. 

 A Bogota bird. 



Mniotiltin^e. 



22. Setophaga ruticilla (L.), 



This North American species is one of the few Passeres of that 

 country that extend all through Central America into the northern 

 portions of the southern continent. It is included by Schomburgk 

 among the birds of British Guiana. 



23. Myiodioctes canadensis (L.). 



Described from Bogota by the Baron de la Fresnaye as a new spe- 

 cies under the name of Setophaga nigrocincta (Rev. Zool. 1843, 

 p. 292), but, as afterwards acknowledged by the same author, quite 

 identical with North American specimens. 



24. Sylvicola Blackburnice, juv. 

 Also a common U. S. species. 



TURDIN^. 



25. Turdus minimus^ Lafr. (Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 5). 



The Prince Charles Bonaparte has reunited this bird to the minor 

 of the U. S., from which M. de la Fresnaye considered it distinct. 



FoRMICARITNiE. 



26. Thamnophilus stellaris, Spix ? (Av. Bras.ii. p. 27. pi. 36. fig. 2). 

 (^ cinereus : pileo dorsoque summo et medio nigris, hujus pennis 



basi niveis : alarum tectricibus apice maculis rotundis, albis. 

 ? supra pallide cinerea : subtus brunnea, lateribus cinerascenti- 



bus : alis externe rufis. 

 Long, tota 5*2, alee 3*0, caudae 1*6. 



This is a typical Thamnophilus with a strong thick bill. There are 

 several examples of it in the Paris Museum in different states of plu- 

 mage, and it was from examining them that I was enabled to decide 

 that the female above described (which is in my own collection) 

 belongs to this species. 



27. Cymbilanius lineatus (Leach), J^ & ? . 



28. Formicivora ccerulescens (Vieill.), Menetr. Mon. t.6. fig. 1 & 2. 

 p. 499 (?). 



29. Pyriglena quixensis (Comalia). 

 Thamnophilus quixensis, Corn. Vert. Syn. p. 12*. 



P. atra, abdomine cinerascente : tectricibus alarum maculis rotun- 



* Dr. Cornalia's paper, which is little known in this country, is entitled " Ver- 

 tebratorum Synopsis in Museo Mediolanensi exstantium quae per novum orbem 

 Caietanus Osculati coUegit annis 1846, 47, 48 speciebus novis vel minus cognitis 

 adjectis necnon descriptionibus atque iconibus illustratis : Modoetiae 1849." 

 Ann, ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. xvi. 19 



