( 38G ) 



show scarcely any trace of cinnamon. The under mandible of the females is always 

 whitish. 



No. 992 is a young male in change of plumage, pilenm, mantle and foreneck 

 being covered with the fluffy, dull mummy-brown feathers of the nestling plumage. 

 There is scarcely an indication of the white supraloral streak. 



109. 'Anoplops inelanosticta (Scl. & Salv.). 

 (Plate III. fig. 1.) 

 Pithyi m lanesticta Sclater & Salvia, P. Z. S. 1880. p. ICO (Sarayacu, East Ecuador). 



Nos. 1099, 1113. S ad., S fere ad., Humaytha, 17, 18. viii. 00. " Iris reddish 

 brown or dark red, feet blackish brown, bill black."— Wing 82, 81 ; tail 55, 54 ; 

 tars. 27, 20 ; bill 19J, 111 mm. 



No. 1200. c? imm., Humaytha, 31. viii. 06. " Iris red-brown, feet plnmbeons, 

 bill blackish grey."— AVing 79 ; tail 53; tars. 27J ; bill 18J mm. 



Nos. 1079, 1112. ? ad., ? imm., Hnmaytha, 18, 28. viii. 06. "Iris brown or 

 dark red, feet black-, bill blackish, below grey." — AVing 79, 77 ; tail 54, 53; tars. 

 27, 20 ; bill 18$ mm. 



In all specimens " a wide naked space round the eye light blue." 



tJ ad. Feathers of the forehead and crown dirty whitish grey, with the webs 

 dissolved, the barbs being loose and distinctly individualised ; those on the occipnt 

 somewhat lengthened, forming a loose, pendent crest. Shafts of the feathers 

 of the pilenm whitish at the base, dusky on their apical portion. The remaining 

 upper parts uniform russet, brighter on the upper wing-coverts and almost light 

 chestnut-brown on the outer webs of the quills ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 rather lighter, more tawny olive, the latter with a narrow, irregular black shaft- 

 streak. Eeetrices blackish, the central pair deep russet-brown on its basal portion ; 

 the remaining ones broadly margined with the same along the outer web. Cheeks, 

 malar region, ear-coverts, lores and a broad superciliary stripe deep black, this 

 colour thus surrounding the naked eye-ring. Throat mottled with blackish and dull 

 olive-brown ; rest of the under parts dull raw umber-brown, slightly tinged with 

 rnfescent on the flanks and under tail-coverts, each of the latter with one or two 

 black cross-bars and a narrow whitish or bnffy apical margin. Axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts pale olive-brown ; inner webs of the qnills distinctly edged with pale 

 cinnamomeons. Feet black. Upper mandible black, lower one horny whitish 

 except the mandibular rami, which are likewise black. 



The other adult male agrees exactly with the above description, while an 

 immature male has the upper and under tail-coverts uniform brown, and is rather 

 more rnfescent on the lower parts. 



? ad. Differs from the males iu having the ground-colour above clearer, more 

 tawny (dive, and by the feathers of the upper back, the wing-coverts as well as 

 the innermost secondaries being crossed by a very distinct black subterminal bar, 

 which is followed by a narrower, pale cinnamomeous apical margin. 



In an evidently immature female these cinnamomeous edges are brighter and 

 more distinct, the wing-coverts more rnfescent brown, with the blackish subapical 

 bands on the greater series less pronounced, and the pilenm is more brownish. 

 A. melanosticta was hitherto known only from a single nnsexed specimen, obtained 

 by E. Buckley at a place called Sarayacu, in Fast Ecuador. The type agrees with 



