( fill7 ) 



General colour more like that of /'. o.Jfacotiiirtxs. but chest less brownish olive, 

 somewhat more greenish, generally very jiale, but stripes on sides of abdomen as 

 m,/lcu:ofiHCti(S. Feathers of forehead in adult males tijiped with golden-yellow. 



TYUANNIDAE. 



[Mi/iot/ieretes strintiroUi.s (Sol.}, Ibarra, TUOO ft. 



Coptd-HS leacoiiotus Lafr., Fambilar. 



Platyrhyiirliiix ulboyularis Scl., Paramba. 



Plati/rhi/iichiis roroz/alns Scl., Lita, 3000 ft. : Cachyjaca, :!"JOU ft. 



Todi rostrum sclateri Cab. it Heine, Litn, S. Javier. 



f.ophotricciis squamicrixtntum (Lafr.), Fambih'ir. 



Mionectes oUtacem Lawr., Lita 3000 ft., Paramba 35o0 ft 



Mionecten oleayineus (Licht), " t? " Carondelet, 7. .\. 1900. 



(This s]iecimen rather resembles M. oleaijiin'ii.s assimilis, the well-distinguishable 

 Central American subspecies, but more sjiecimens wonld be necessary to say much 

 about it.) 



LejjtOj/0(jon superciliari.s Cab., Lita 300U ft., Paramba 3oO(i ft.] 



Orchilus atricapillus Lawr. 



Vrchihis atriiMpillas Lawr., Ibii^ 1875. p. 385 (Costa Kica). 



" Sr S. Javier, 60 ft. high, I'.i. vi. lUOO. " Iris light brown, feet flesh-colour, 

 bill black." Wing 36 mm., tail 17, metatarsus 13, bill Hi. 



A white line from the bill across the lores to the eye ; crown black, occiput 

 and hindneck grey, rest of npperside yellowish green, throat white, breast indis- 

 tinctly striped with white and grey, abdomen very pale yellow. In all other details 

 perfectly agreeing with Lawrence's excellent description. Apparently no other 

 specimen in European collections and hitherto only known from Costa Kica. 



\_Tijruniiidus elata (Lath.), Pambih'ir, S. Javier, 60 ft. 



Elainea semlpagana Scl., Paramba lO. iv. 1898, 3500 ft. 



Legatus albicollis (Vieill.), a large series from Paramba. 



There is much variation in the grey shade on the breast, and the amount of 

 yellow on the crown. Young birds have the rnm]), tail, and wing-coverts edged 

 with rufous, the feathers of the crown reddish with deep brown tijjs. 



Mi/io<h/itustes uiulax nobilh Scl., Carondelet, Paramba, S. Javier. 



Mijiobias stellatus Cab., Paramba, Lita. 



Mi/iobius crypterythrus Scl., Paramba, S. Javier]. 



Myiobius litae Harturt. 



ili/iobiiix Utile Hart., Jitdl. H. ( >. C. xi. p. 40 (December 1900 ; Litaj. 



This bird is proVialjly the Western representative of ^J. phoenicomitra Tacz. 

 & Berl. from E. Ecuador. It differs from the latter in the male having the 

 vertical patch golden-yellow, there being only an orange spot between the olive tip 

 and the yelloiv base of the feathers of the pileum ; the edgings to the wing-coverts 

 are not slight but wide (:.' — 3 mm.) and mme brownish ; the U|)pcrside is less 



