( -^91 ) 



grey. Loww' surface pale grey, palest in the middle of the abdomen ; throat 

 whitish, flanks washed with brownish ; nnder tail-coverts greyish, mure whitish on 

 the tijis ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale greyish, quill-liuiug very indis- 

 tinctly edged with dull whitish. " Yeux clair (gris), pied gris clair, bee noiratre." 

 Wing, 62i ; tail, 3U ; tarsus, 2U ; bill, lo mm* 



Ti/pe : A. Robert coll. No. lOyiJ. ? ad., Igarape-Assu (Paraj, oU m. elev., 

 February 22, 10o4. 



This species is nearest 11. grUeicentris (Pelz.), but, as pointed out in the above 

 diagnosis, it diifers in much smaller size, shorter and weaker bill, less reddish back, 

 with the white interscapular blotch barely indicated, and especially by having the 

 forehead and sides of the head not pale ferruginous. The former is olive-brown 

 like the occiput, and the latter are clear cinereous like the nnder-surface. On the 

 other hand, the tail is quite the same in both species, showing a broad lilackish 

 subterminal cross-baud (of about G — 8 mm. breadth), which is followed by a sharply 

 defined white apical margin (about 2 mm. broad). 



The nearest ally of //. grisi'iveittris and //. vidua is evidently //. poeciUnota. 

 The female of the latter species, however, is readily distinguished by having broad 

 fulvous terminal margins ou the upper wing-coverts, tertials, and interscapulars ; 

 the upper wing-coverts are moreover deep black, and there is a band of white spots 

 across the middle of the tail-feathers, besides other differences. 



The bill of//, lidaa is a little different iu shape from that of typical Ih/pocueinis, 

 being rather higher and more abruptly flattened towards the base. 



Unfortunately Mons. Robert sent only one female of this distinct species. Of 

 the allied //. i/^-isfirentris also the male is as yet unknown. Nevertheless, there is 

 no doidjt that both represent very well-marked species of Hypocnemis. 



4.0. Phlegopsis paraensis Hellm. 



Phlegnpais pirue)isi8S.elhasiyT, (Jni. Monhcr. xii. (April I'JOt) p. b'A (Pani : coll. Natterer ; Mus. 



Vindob.). 

 Phloiiopsis ii/i/miuwiihita (nee Lafr. & D'Orbigny I) Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 5715 (Para) ; 



Peheln, Zur Orn. Bmx. ii. (181)8) p. iMI part. (Para) ; Sclater, Cut. Birds Brit. Mus.xv. (1890) 



p. 299 part. (spec. «, b, r.). 



No. 2169. (J ad. Igarap*^ Assu, Para, 51) m., Mny 13, 1904. Al. 91 ; caud. 56 ; 

 rostr. 20i mm. 



No. 2173. c? ad., same locality, May 14, 1904. Al. 90i ; caud. 57; rostr. 

 21 mm. 



" Iris bleu fonce " (2169), " grenat " (2173), bill and feet " noir." 



These birds are both adult, and exhibit all the differences pointed out by me (/.'".). 

 Since describing the species I had an opportunity to comjiare the series in the 

 British Museum. Specimens a and /j of Sclater's list (ride sujtra) arc typical of 

 P. paiaeims, and specimen d belongs also here. It is labelled " Rio Napo, Verdey," 

 but the locality is doubtless erroneous, and from the make of the skin it is evident 

 that it came really from Cayenne, whence Madame Verdey of Paris got many birds. 



The seven specimens now examined by me all have small white ajiical spots, 

 followed by black subapical ones, on the najie, and the tail-feathers show broad 

 sagittate black markings near the tip. In the Oruith. Monatsberickte I gave a key 

 to the species of the P. niyromaculata group. 



* The tour typ«s of H. griseiventris (Vienna Museum) measure as follows : Wing, 67, tj?, (iS, 70 ; 

 tail, ij, Ij, -17, 50 ; bill, 16i 16, 18, IS mm. 



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