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The eggs are invariably two in number, creamy white, sometimes with a 

 roseate tinge, and thickly speckled, streaked, and scrawled over the entire 

 surface with bright chestnut-rufous, heavier at the larger end, in the form 

 of a wreath or cap. Sometimes the markings have a decided purplish 

 color. " The nest is always suspended from a slender vine or the tip of a 

 branch over water. 



Specimens examined. — Honduras: Yaruca, 1; Segovia River, 1; Rio 

 de las Piedras, 1. Nicaragua: Los Sabalos, 4; Rio Tuma, 1; Tuma, 2; Rio 

 Grande, 1; Savala, 1; Las Canas, 2; Pena Blanca, 2. Costa Rica: Pozo 

 Azul de Pirris, 10; Escazu(?), 1; Guapiles, 3; Volcano Turrialba, 1; Gua- 

 cimo, 2; Rio Sicsola, 1; Miravalles, 1; El Hogar, 2; El Pozo de Terraba, 2; 

 Boruca, 17; Buenos Aires, 1; La Concepcion, Jimenez, 1; Jimenez, 2; 

 Bonilla, 1 ; Angostura, 2; Naranjo, 1 ; Tenorio, 4; La Vijagua, 8; El General, 

 13; Paso Real, 2; Carrillo, 3; Cariblanco de Sarapiqui, 2; Pozo del Rio 

 Grande, 12. Panama: Divala, 2; Chiriqui, 1; Tacarcuna, 5; El Real, Rio 

 Tuyra, 4; Cana, 1; Tapalisa, 1; Cerro Azul, 1; Cituro, Cuppe River, 1; 

 Mt. Pirri, 1 ; unspecified, 1. Colombia: Murindo, 2; Quibdo, 1 ; El Tambo, 

 3; Andagoya, 3; Potedo, 3; Malagita, 3; Alto Bonito, 3; Baudo, Choco, 

 1; Choco, 2; Barbacoas, 2; San Jose, Cauca, 1 ; Juntas de Tamana, Cauca, 

 2; Novita, Cauca, 2. Ecuador: Junction Chanchan and Chiguancay 

 Rivers, 2; Bucay, Guayas, 2; Naranjo, Guayas, 1; Santa Rosa, Oro, 1; 

 Rio de Oro, Manavi, 4. Total, 164. 



Myiobius villosus villosus Sclater. 



Myiobius villosus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, 93 (Nanegal 

 [type-locality] and Rio Napo[?], Ecuador; orig. descr.; type now in coll. 

 British Mus.), 465 (ref. orig. descr.; range).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 226 (Nanegal and Rio Napo, Ecuador; ref. orig. descr.). — Gray, 

 Hand-List Birds, I, 1869, 359 (in list of species; range). — Giebel, Thes. 

 Orn., II, 1875, 668 (ref. orig. descr.). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1879, 514 (Frontino, Antioquia, Colombia; crit.). — Tac- 

 zanowski and von Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885, 91 

 (Machay and Mapoto, Ecuador), 116 (Nanegal, Ecuador). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 201, part (Nanegal and Rio Napo, 

 Ecuador; Frontino and "Bogotd, " Colombia; descr.; references; crit.). 

 Salvador: and Festa, Bol. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Comp. Torino, XIV, 

 No. 362, 1899, 10 ("Foreste del Rio Peripa, " Ecuador; Ecuadorean 

 references; crit.) — Sharps, Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 131, part (range). 

 — Goodfellow, Ibis, 1901, 706 (Gualea, Ecuador; crit.). — Gceldi, 

 Bol. Mus. Paraense, III, 1902, 292, part (Rio Napo, Ecuador, ex Sclater). 

 — Menegaux, Mission Service Geog. Mes. Arc M6ridien Equat. Amer. 

 du Sud, IX, i, 1911, B 56 (Mindo, Ecuador; Ecuadorean records). — Bra- 

 bourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am. I, 1912, 296, part (ref. orig. descr.; 

 range).— Chapman, Bull, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, 465, 

 excl. extralimital records (Cocal and Ricaurte, Colombia; range; crit.). 

 Myiobiiis sulphur eipygia var. villosa Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1902, 245 

 part (references; range). 



