( 345 ) 



Identical with Peruvian and Venezuelan (Canra) specimens. 



P. stellaris ranges all over the great Amazonian forest region, from Surinam, 

 Cayenne, and Para to the eastern slopes of the Andes in Eenador and Pern. 

 Notwithstanding this wide area I cannot make out any local races. 



212. Myrmotherula pygmaea (Gm.). 



Mascicapa pygmma Gmelin, Syst. Xal. 1 ii, p. 933 (1789. — ex D'Aubeaton, PI. enl. 831. fig. 2 : 



Cayenne). 

 Myrmothn-ula pygmtea Pelzeln, l.i: p. 80 (Guaiaragua9U, Rio Matnore) ; Hellmxyr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 



p. 382 (Borba, Humaytha). 



No. 844. S imm., Mai-mello>, 21. vii. lUUT.— Wing \1 ; tail 19 ; bill 13 mm. 



Nos. ::, 293. ? ad., (<?) imm., C'alama, 10. vi., 29. vii. 1907.— Wing 40, 44 : 

 tail 18, 21 ; bill 13, 15 mm. 



" Iris brown, feet light green or pale plumbeous, bill black, below grey." 



Within Brazilian limits M. pyijmaea does not seem to have been met with 

 east of the Madeira basin, although, in the north of the South American continent, 

 it ranges as far as French Guiana. The Mnnich Musenm possesses a large series 

 from Cayenne, Venezuela (Caura Valley), Eastern Ecuador (Napo), and Bogota. 



213. Myrmotherula surinamensis multostriata Scl. 



\SiUa surinamensis Gmelin, Sysl. Nat. I. i. p. 442 (1788.— based oq " Surinam Nuthatch," Latham, 



Gen. SijH. Birds 1 ii. p. 654. pi. 28 (= ? ) : Surinam).] 

 Myrmotherula nmltostrlata Sclater, Pro: Znol. Soc. Land. xxvi. 1858. p. 234. pi. cxli. figs. 2 ((J), 



3 ( $ ) (1858.— Ucayali, East Peru). 

 JI. suritmrmnsis multostriata Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 382 (Humaytha). 



No. 165. S ad., Calama, 5. vii. 1907.— Wing 51 ; tail 26 ; bill 13 mm. 



No. 847. S ad., Marmellos, 22. xii. 1907.— Wing 48 ; tail 24 ; bill 13 mm. 



No. 838. i imm., Marmellos, 21. xii. 1907.— Wing 48; tail 27; bill 13 mm. 



No. 164. ? ad., Calama, 4. vii. 1907.— Wing 49 ; tail 23 ; bill 13 mm. 



No. 532. ¥ ad., Jamarysinho, Rio Machados, 10. ix. 1907. — Wing 49 ; tail 24 ; 

 bill 13i mm. 



No. 837. ? ad., Marmellos, 21. xii. 1907.— Wing 48; tail 25 ; bill (damaged) 

 ■ — mm. 



" Iris brown, feet plnmbeous, bill black, below grey." 



This series is typical of multostriata. The females have the sides of the head 

 paler or deeper buff with dusky streaks (not uniform clear cinnamon-rufous as in 

 surinamensis), the under parts marked with very distinct, though narrow, blackish 

 sbaft-stripes on a creamy white ground, and the foreneck as well as the breast 

 washed with buff. The middle of the abdomen alone is creamy white, without 

 streaks. Two of the females have the whole pileum, almost to the base of the 

 bill, striped with black, while in that from Calama the anterior portion is uniform 

 ferrnginous as in surinrtmensis, but of a lighter hue. Birds from Para and the 

 Rio Tapajoz, for which I am indebted to Miss Snethlage, are likewise referable 

 to miiUostriata. 



The synonymy and range of M. s. multostriata are as follows : — 



Myrmotherula multostriata Sclater, Prnc. Zool. Soc. Land. 1858. p. 234. pi. cxli. figs, 2, 3 (Ucayali, 

 East Peru) ; Sclater & Salvin, I.e. 18156. p. 185 (Upper Ucayali) : iidem, l.r. 1873. p. 274 (Upper 

 Ucayali, Santa Cruz, Eastern Peru) ; Sclater, Cat. Ainer. Birds 1862. p. 179 (Upper Amazon — 

 Bates, erroneously registered as type). 



