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 216. Myrmotherula ornata hoffmanusi Hellm. 



[Formicivora ornata Sclater, Rfe. May. Zool. (2) y. p. 480 (1853.— Nova Grenada).] 



M. a. hoffmaiiuxi Helhnayr, Bull. Brit. Oni. CI. xvi. p. 84 (April 1906.— Itaiti'iba. left bank of the 



Rio Tapajoz) ; Nov. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 22. 

 M. ornata (not of Sclater) Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras. ii. p. 81 (Salto Theotonio, Ribeirao, Rio 



Madeira). 



Nos. 79, 379. ?? ad., Calaraa, 10. vi., 11. viii. 1907.— Wing 51, 53; tail 

 34, 35 ; bill 14 mm. 



" Iris brown, feet pliuubeoas, liill blackish grey." 



These examples agree with the type in all essential points, especially in having 

 the apical spots to the wing-coverts deep buff (pare wliite in M. o. ornata) and the 

 throat deep ochraceous (not black spotted with white), bnt differ slightly by the 

 rather brighter ochraceous colour of the breast and abdomen. This, however, is not 

 likely to be a constant character. Both specimens have very little ferrnginous 

 admixture in the middle of the back, while in the female of M. o. ornata the entire 

 back (except pileum and nape) is bright chestnut-rafous. Another difference is to 

 found in the colour of the axillaries and under wing-coverts, which are pure white in 

 M. 0. ornata, bright buff in M. o. Iiojfmanngi. 



Dr. von Lorenz has very kindly sent for my examination the two males obtained 

 on the Rio Madeira by the late Dr. Natterer. They agree well with the type and 

 belong undoubtedly to M. o. hoffmannsi. The latter form has recently been met 

 with by Miss Snethlage on the banks of the Tapaj6z and Tocantins Rivers.* 



217. Myrmotherula haematonota (Scl.). 



Fortiiiclrora haematonota Sclater, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond. xxv. 1857. p. 48 (June 1857. — Chamicuros, 



Eastern Peru). 

 Mijrmothernia hwm'ilonola Pelzeln, l.r. p. 81 (Borba) ; Hellmayr, Nor. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 384 



(Borba, Humaytha). 



Nos. 171, 243, 253, 288. S <S ad. and vix ad., Calama, (5, 19, 22, 29. vii. 1907. 

 " Iris yellow or pale brown, feet dark grey or plumbeous, bill black." — Wing 

 50—53 ; tail 36—42 ; bill 13^-14 mm. 



These specimens, adults with the back and rnmp deep ferruginous, agree 

 perfectly with a series from the Caura Valley, Venezuela. The male obtained 

 near Borba, by Natterer, is immature, having the tips to the upper wing-coverts 

 deep buff, and but a limited space in the middle of the back dark ferruginoas. 



About the identity of ^1/. haematonota and M. pyrrhonota cf my remarks in 

 Not. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 70. 



Miss Snethlage has lately recorded M. haematonota from Villa Braga, left bank 

 of the Rio Tapajuz.t 



218. Myrmotherula axillaris axillaris (Vieill.) 



Myrmothera axillaris Vieillot, .Void'. Dirt. xii. p. 113 (1817. — " la Gujane''). 



Myrmotherula axillaris Pelzeln, / c. p. 82 (Borba, Matogrosso, Engenho do Gama, S. Vicente, etc.) ; 

 Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 383 (Humaytha, Borba). 



No. 935. c? ad., Maruins, Rio Machados, 21. vi. 1908. " Iris dark brown, feet 

 plumbeous, bill black." — Wing 53; tail 38 ; bill 13 mm. 

 Identical with Cayenne examples. 



• Joiim.f. Oritith. 190». pp. 511, 532. t Jourri.f. Uniitk. 1908. p. 511. 



