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it resembles A. cristata (Pelz.).* In structural characters it agrees exactly with 

 the description of Rhegmatorhina gymnopi Eidgw.,t a Bpecies which I have not yet 

 met with. 



111. Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigroniacnlata (Lafr. & D'Orh.). 

 Cf. supra, p. 73. 



No. 1043. c? ad., Humaytha, 3. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black." — 

 Wing 95$ : tail 66 ; bill 20J mm. 



Nos. 1024, 1044. ¥ ? ad., Humaytha, 31. vii., 3. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet 

 and bill black. Naked ring round the eye yellowish red." — Wing 90, 89; 

 tail G3; bill 20$, 19J mm. 



These specimens agree exactly with those from Telle. The back is covered 

 with large, oval black spots, very narrowly margined with pale brownish at the 

 tip ; the upper wing-coverts have broad, black shaft-stripes which reach almost to 

 the base of the feathers, and the inner secondaries likewise show broad, black 

 subapical spots surrounded by a distinct cinnamomeous apical margin. There are 

 no white spots on the nape in any of the skins. 



In Nos. 1043 and 1044 the ground-colour of the back is of the same shade 

 as in the TerTe, birds, pale olive-brown with a greyish "cast"; while No. 1024 is 

 much brighter above, more yellowish olive, thereby approaching P. n. bowmani. 



112. Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani Ridgw. 



Phletjtijisi* bowmani Ridgway, Proa. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 1887. p. 524 (1888. — Diainantina near 



Santarem, Lower Amazons). 

 P. nigromaculata (uec Lafr. & D'Orb.) Pelzeln, Orn. Brazil, ii. 1868. p. 'JO (part. : Borba). 



Nos. 1385, 1432'. ? ? ad., Borba, 23. xi., 2. xii. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet 

 and bill black. Bare space round the eye bright red." — Wing 851, S6| ; tail 

 58, 60 ; bill 10 mm. 



These specimens, which answer well to Ridgway's diagnosis, differ from the 

 preceding ones by their smaller size, and by the shape of the black markings on 

 the upper parts. These are much shorter and broader, thus producing a transverse 

 pattern, while they are decidedly longitudinal in P. n. nigromaculata. The ground- 

 colour of the back as well as that of the lesser and median wing-coverts is much 

 brighter, a fine golden-yellowish olive. In both specimens there are several small 

 black-and-white spots on the sides of the nape. 



P. ii. nigromaculata, P. n. bowmani, and P. n. paraensis Ilellm. arc undoubtedly 

 geographical representatives, and therefore more properly designated trinomially. 

 Their range is as follows : 



» 

 a. I', nigromaculata nigromaculata (Lafr. & D'Orb.). 



North Bolivia: Guarayos (D'Orbigny), San Mateo (Garlepp, Mus. H. v. 

 Berlepsch). Eastern Pern: Rio Ocayali (Hauxwell, Garlepp). X.W. Brazil: 

 Teffe" (Hoffmanns), Rio Jnrua (Garbe), Eumaytha, west bank of the upper Kio 

 Madeira (Hoffmanns), t 



* Pithyi oristata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Urns. ii. 1868. p. 166 (Rio Vaopfi, uppei Eio Xogro). 

 t Proe. U.8, Xii'. Mus. x. 1887. p. 625 (1888— Diainantina, near Santarem, Lower Amazons). 

 J The locality Bio Nape Eastern Ecuador, does nol rest on reliable authority. 



