(fill ) 



" iris brown (rerklish brown, gre}' !), feet bluish grey,"' bill blackish bi'cpwu, bcluw 

 more or less whitish, lightest towards base. 



Attila torridus Scl. 



Aflila fon-iihis Scl., P. Z. S. 1800. p. 280 (Babahayo, Ecuador). S. Javier and 

 Piinibiliir. 



Carpodectes hopkei Beilp. 



( 'arjjodectes /lOjAu/ Berlepsch, (Jr/i. Monatsbfr. v. 1897. p. 174 (W. C^olombia, 

 Eio Dagna). 



cJ juv. Ventana, N.AV. Ecuador, DO ft. high, 2o. iv. 1900 (No. 84). "Iris 

 brown, feet dark grey, bill black." 



This young male resembles the females of ' '. hopkei, but the wing is longer 

 (155 mm.), and the ashy grey colour o the back and chest is lighter. It would 

 be of some value to compare adult males and females. 



FORMICARIIDAE. 



{Thamnistes anabatinus aequatorialis Scl.— Itio Verde, 3200 ft. ; Lita, 3000 ft. 

 " Iris red-brown, feet bluish green, bill dark grey, nearly black, light grey below." 

 ? without the bright orange-ochraceous interscapular patch.) 



Dysithamnus flemmingi Hart. 



J'l/sitliamnus JeinmiiKji Hart., Bull B. 0. C. xi. p. 38 (lUOOJ. 



S . Feathers of crown grey with a black shaft-stripe, more or les.s branched out 

 laterally in a sort of " herring-bone" way, nape moro uniform giey ; remainder 

 of uj)perside greyish olive ; quills brownish slate-colour, outwardly edged with 

 greyish olive, inwardly with buff; upper wing-coverts slaty grey, with ruuiidish 

 white tips, alulae edged with white. Kectrices slaty, with greyish olive edges 

 and very narrow white tips. Chin, throat, and che t ashy grey, every feather with 

 more or less white towards the base, occupying most of the feathers on the chin 

 and throat, breast white in centre, middle of abdomen yellowish white, sides of 

 ubdomeu olive-buff; under wing-coverts ashy with whitish spots. " Iris brown 

 (dark brown, light bluish grey), feet grey, bill black, below grey. AVing 5',i-(J0, 

 tail 35-37, tarsus 18-19J, bill from end of feathering 13i-14i mm. 



? . Feathers of crown and nape ochraceous, marked like those of the mule and 

 often tipped with black or blackish brown ; rest of ujipcrside olive-brown. AViugs 

 blackish brown with rusty-brown outer webs and bright rusty-ochraceous edges to 

 the inner webs ; wing-coverts brown, all, except the last ones, tipped with rusty- 

 buff; alulae and primary-coverts edged with ochraceous-buff. Tail olive-brown. 

 Underside j)ale rusty ochraceous, sides olive-brown, nuddlc of abdomen paler, 

 feathers of throat whitish, mostly with blackish shafts, while those of the jugulum 

 are more or less whitish along the shaft. \Viug 58-(i0 mm. 



Hub. Rio Verde {tjjpe), Ventana, Buliin, Lita, and ('acliyjacu, in N.W. Ecuador. 



{Di/.sithamnm luiicolor Scl., S ad., 6 med., ¥ near ruranilia, ;i.'iiio ft. high. 

 " Iris pale bluish grey, feet bluish grey, bill black.") 



