( 341) ) 



was euiililed to comitare the fypes of tlic latter species with those of If. stellata 

 in the British Museum, and fouud them to be ideutical. 



No. 1 is au adult male. The spots on the lesser and median upper wing-coverts, 

 as also the cross-baud on the uropygium, are pure white. The female (No. 2) has 

 a slight creamy wash on the latter, and the aiiical spots on the wing-coverts are 

 pale fulvous. 



The typical specimens of //. stellata are both immature. No. 3, in more 

 advanced plumage, agrees perfectly with Natterer's female. The only differences 

 I cau find consist of the very slightly darker upper surface and the more fulvous 

 _ tinge of the rump-liand, both being evidently' signs of immaturity. No. 4 is a 

 very young bird in fluUy plumage, with the markings everywhere less pronounced 

 than in the adults, and with but few very small black spots on the foreneck. 



Strange to say, neither in the original description of 11. stellata nor in the 

 Cat. Birds xv., is any mention made of the coloration of the tail.* All the 

 specimens have the two outer tail-feathers and the two basal thirds of the outer 

 web of the third pair pure white, as correctly described by Mr. Ridgway. 



45. Myrmotlierula guayabambae Sharpe = M. atrogularis Tacz. ? ! 



Mijriiiii/lienila ainnjularis Taczaaowski, P. Z. S. 1874. p. 137 [Amablc Maria and Monterico, Central 



Peru. — Mus. Uuiv. Warsaw], 

 J/. tju<ii/ab'nnbae Sharpe, Hull. Brit. Oni. CI. xi. no. l.\xiv. (I'.IOO), p. 2. descr. J [Guayabamba, 



North Peru]. 



Specimen typ. in Mus. Brit. : ¥ ad., Guayabamba, 4U0U ft., August -JO, ls94. 

 0. T. Baron coll. Wing 53, tail 39, bill 15J mm. 



Tliis example agrees perfectly with a female of M. atro(/iilaris from Huambo, 

 N. I'oru, ill the British Museum. Wing 53, tail 37, bill 15 mm. 



J/, guayabambae has been described by mistake. Sharpe never referred to 

 M. atiogularis, but compared his bird with M. fulciventris, to which it is not <it all 

 related. M. fulciventris belongs to t^uite another group, in which the sexes are 

 nearly alike, differing only in the colour of the throat. The ? of J/, atrogidaris 

 bears, it is true, a su[)erficial resemblance to the S of M. fulciventris, but difi'ers 

 at a glance in having the back dark olive grey (not brownish), the outer margins 

 of the remiges olive grey (not rufescent), and the apical sjiots on the upper wing- 

 coverts pure white (instead of fulvous). 



4r.. Picumnus macconnelli Sharpe should be P. cirratus macconnelli Sharpe. 



PicumHiis maccuniicUi Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. xii. (Oct. I'JOl), p. 4 [Brilisli Uuiana]. 

 I'ifiiniiiiiJi amuzvnicus Sncthlagc, Oni. Mimhcr. xiv. (l&UG), p. GO[Dibtrict o£Par;i : Marajo.aud Wonte 

 Alegre]. 



Wing. Tail. BUI. 

 1. Brit. Mus. (c?; ad., British Guiana. McConnell coll. 



Type of 7"'. Ma«-y///rt'/// Sharpe 54 3U 14 mm. 



'Z. Mus. Tring, i ad., Boavista, near Paril. Steere coll. 55J 32 13 „ 

 3. „ „ ? ad., „ „ „ „ „ 55 32 13 „ 



In the original description Ur. Sharpe com]iared the species with /'. steindachneri, 



' In >.u. 3 the outermost pair is wanting. 



