PHEUGOPEDIUS. 



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tail coverts, barred obscurely witli black. Lores and ears sooty. Chin, throat, 

 and jugulum white — this color extending round behind the ears. A scarcely 

 appreciable white line over and but little Ijehind the eye. Rest of under 

 parts, including crissuin, sooty black, barred transversely and narrowly with 

 Mhite ; the flanks strongly washed with rufous. The upper part of the breast 

 almost uniform blackish — this color extending forward so as to margin the 

 white of the neck, but not crossing the white of the cheeks. The tail is 

 blackish, the exposed surfaces narrowly barred with reddish-brown (about 

 one-third their interspaces). Inside of wing spotted with blackish. Bill above 

 blackish ; the tip, tomia, and under side horn color. Legs blackish. 



The bill in this species is considerably stouter, perhaps higher, than in 

 the type, P. cnraya, but is otherwise much the same. 



Females similar, but smaller, with the white of neck scarcely bordered with 

 black ; the white bands beneath less distinct. 



(89, %.) Total length, 6.00; wing, 2.65; tail, 2.50; its graduation, .80; 

 length of bill from forehead, .90, from nostril, .54; along gape, 1.00 ; greatest 

 height, .27 ; width at angle of mouth, .40 ; tarsus, 1.00 ; middle toe and claw, 

 .92; claw alone, .28 ; hind toe and claw, .72 ; claw alone, .35. 



Female: Length, 5.80; bill from nostril, .47; gape, .91. 



A Rivoli specimen in the collection of the Phila. Academy, from 

 South America, agrees well with those from Panama. 



Plieiigopedius rittilus. 



Tkryothorus rutiliis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1817, 56. — Ib. Nouv. 

 Diet. II, 627.— BuRM. Syst. Ueb. II, 1856, 134 (Brazil).— Sclater, 

 Catal. 1861, 21, no. 134.— Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 1861, 

 320, no. 189. 

 Tkryothorus rutilans, Sw. Birds Braz. pi. xv. 

 Uab. N. Brazil and Venezuela, to Isthmus of Panama. 



Plieusjopediiis maculipectus. 



Thrijolhorus maculipectus, Lafh. Rev. Zool. 1845, 338 (Mexico). — Scla- 

 ter, P. Z. S. 1856, 290 (Cordova).— Ib. 1859, 363 (.Jalapa), 372 

 (Oaxaca). — la Catal. 1861, 21, no. 133. — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 

 II, 1860, 30 (Vera Paz, Guat.). 

 Hah. South Mexico to Guatemala. 



