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Nos. 955, 959, 960, 961, 971, 989, 990. ? ? ad. and imm., Marnins, 29, 30. vi., 

 5, 10. vii. 1908. " Iris brown, feet grey or greyish brown, bill black." — Wing 

 91—99 ; tail 38—42 ; bill 22|— 24 mm.—" Lives on the ground " (W. H.). 



The majority of the skins have the apical bands of the upper wing-coverts 

 rather deeper, more ochraceons l)ntf, than Gaianan specimens ; in immature birds 

 these edges are much narrower and paler in colour. All examples (of both sexes) 

 have a pure white band across the inner web of the remiges. 



E. torquata has rather a wide range in South America east of the Andes. It is 

 common in French and British Guiana ; Natterer met with it at Barra do Rio Negro 

 (= Mandos) and near Borba ; Buckley obtained specimens at Saraya^u, in Eastern 

 Ecuador ; Linden procured it near Santarem,* and Snethlage near Monte Alegre on 

 the Amazons,t in Villa Braga, Tapajoz, as well as at Alcobaca, Tocantins.f 

 In Western Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica no representative of the genns has 

 as yet been ascertained to occur, though in Nicaragua a very near ally, R. stictoptera 

 Salvin,|: is met with. It difters by having the pileum much duller, rnfescent 

 brown with distinct blackish edges to the feathers (instead of nearly uniform deep 

 rufous brown) ; the upper and under tail-coverts dnll rnfescent brown (not bright 

 cinnamon-rufons) ; the rectrices dull olive-brown ; the pale band across the inner 

 web of the remiges and the under wing-coverts bright buff (the latter being, in 

 R. torquata, banded with black and white), etc., etc. The female, like that of 

 R. torquata, has the throat and foreneck ferruginous (not black). There are two 

 S S and one ? from Nicaragua (Matagalpa and Rio Grande) in the Tring Museum. 



[253. Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigromaculata (Lafr. & D'Orb.). 



Cf. Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 388. 



Left bank of the Rio Madeira : Humaytha (Hoffmanns). Not obtained on his 

 second trip.] 



254. Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani Ridgw. 



Phlegopsis hinvmaui (Riker MS.) Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 1887. p. 524 (1888.— Diamantina 

 near Santarem, right bunk of Tapajoz) ; Snethlage, Journ. f. Orn. 1908. p. 513 (Villa Braga, 

 left bank of Tap.aji57.). 



P. nigromaculata (nee Lafr. & Orb.) Pelzeln, I.e. p. 90 (part. : Borba). 



Phlegopsis niyrvmaculata boicmuni Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. 1907. p. 388 (Borba). 



Nos. 26, 60, 65, 230, 313, 376, 385. <SS ad., imm., and jnv., Calama, 12, 17. 

 vi., 16, 31. vii., 11, 12. viii. 1907. " Iris brown, feet and bill black, naked space 

 round the eye bright red." — Wing 87 — 94 ; tail 57 — 62 ; bill 20 — 21 mm. 



Nos. 43, 55, 62, 69, 266, 558. ? ? ad. and imm., Calama, 14, 17, 18. vi., 

 24. viii., 17. ix. 1907. Soft parts as above.— Wing 86—90; tail 57—62; bill 

 19—21 mm. 



Nos. 748, 756. 66 ad., Allianca, 0, 7. xi. 1907.— Wing 91, 92; tail 56, 62; 

 bill 20 mm. 



Nos. 746, 749. ¥ ¥ ad., Allianca, 5, 6. xi. 1907.— Wing 84, 85 ; tail 57, 60 ; 

 bill 18, 19 mm. 



Nos. 976, 994, 1025. 66 ad., 6 imm., Marnins, 6, 10, 16. vii. 1908.— Wing 

 91—93 ; tail 62—63 ; bill 20 mm. 



• Allen, Bull. Essex Inst. viii. 1876. p. 80. 



t Joun.f. Orn. 1907. p. 287 ; I.e. 1908. pp. .'J13, 533. 



X Midi B. 0. C. i. p. xxxii. (1893.— Santo Domingo, Nicaragua). 



