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tioned above with the type specimen of Professor Baird's P. brevipes, 

 and foaud them, to my great surprise, agree so well that I am convinced 

 that the latter species is only the female of Jfavijjes, or of a very nearly 

 allied species. I have no female of fiavipes at hand for comparison, but 

 the structural features are so nearly the same, and the descriptions of 

 the females of this species agree so well with the color of hrevipes, that 

 I have no doubt that my identification is right. The only difl'erence 

 which I can detect is the somewhat shorter tarsus of brevipes, but this 

 is perhaps only an individual variation, although it possibly may turn 

 out to be a difierent species. 



We would then have the following vspecies within this genus: 



1. Plati/cichla brevipes (Baird). 



2. Flatycichla Jlarlpes (ViQiW.). 



3. Platyeiclila carbonaria (Licht). 



As to the generic name, it may be remarked that flavipes has been 

 formerly united with its near relative, Ciclilopsis leucogenys, Cab. within 

 the genus Myiociclila "Schiff".", as the type of which it has usually been 

 regarded. But it will seem from the following remark of Bonaparte, 

 the first author by whom the genus 2IylocicMa was published, that the 

 leucogeiu/s is the true type. He says (Notes Coll. Delattre, p. 30), ^'■Tur- 

 dus JiavipcH, Vieill. {carbonarius 111., ardesiacus Cuv. nee Auct. !) est 

 pour Schilf une Myiocichla ; mais y est-il bien place si le type de ce 

 genre est, comme nous le croyons, sa Myiocichla ochrata, du Bresil ( Turdus 

 brunneus! Frejreiss, nee Auglorum et Bodd.)". In this case the name 

 Professor Baird has given it will stand. 



Ckhlopsis leucogenys 



TURDAMPELIS LeSS. 



= 1884.— TitrdampeUs Less., Ecbo dii Monde S;iv., 1844, p. 15(i. (Type T. 



Ian loides. ) 

 =^ Ic-r.O.— Cic//?ojj.s(s C.ib., Mus. Heiu., i, p. 54. (Type C. leucofjeni/s.) 

 < l854.—"MiiiocichIa ScMff" Bonap. Coll. Delattre, p. 30. (Same type.) 

 Size moderate ; color uniform. " Wing rather longer than tail." " fourth 

 and fifth primaries longest;" "third, between fifth and sixth;" "first 

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