524 NEW BIRDS FROM THE LOWER AMAZON.- 



10. Dichrozoua* zononota, sp. uov. 



Sr. cuKR.— Adult {■'.) male (Dniiuuiitina, Lower Amazon, July 11, 

 1887) : Forehead dull ash-gray ; rest of pileum cinnamon-brown or russet, 

 bordered laterally by a pale ashy superciliary stripe, becoming white 

 anteriorly, where occupying upper half of lores ; hind-neck and upper 

 and lateral portions of back cinnamon-brown ; feathers of central por- 

 tion of back deep black for terminal portion (broadly), pure white 

 basally ; lower back uniform deep black (the feathers pure white be- 

 neath surface), followed by a sharply defined baud of white, about .20 

 broad; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail deep black, the two outer rec- 

 trices entirely white, the third with outer web, except terminal portion, 

 white. Wing-coverts deep black, the anterior and lowermost lesser 

 coverts spotted with white ; middle coverts broadly tipped with ochra- 

 ceous-buff, inclining to white on some of the feathers ; concealed basal 

 portion of greater coverts ochraceous-buff, producing a broad, sharply 

 defined band, the same coverts also broadly tipped with ochraceous- 

 buff, forming a sharply defined band about .20 wide ; outer leather of 

 alula, with tip of inner and terminal half of outer web pale buff ; second 

 feather tipped with the same; innermost (first) tertial plain cinnamon- 

 brown ; rest of tertiais and secondaries dull black, rather indistinctly 

 tipped with dull, light tawny-brown, and crossed near base (immedi- 

 ately underneath the similarly colored band across tips of greater 

 coverts) by a broad band of ochraceous-buft"; outer webs of primaries 

 and edges of approximate secondaries dull tawny or cinnamon-brown. 

 A distinct but narrow dusky streak from anterior angle of eye to 

 nostrils, and a much less distinct or merely indicated postocular streak 

 of dull drown; auriculars pale ash-gray, tinged with light brown; 

 malar region and lower parts pure white, the chest heavily spotted with 

 black, forming a broken collar ; sides brownish-gray, the flanks more 

 brownish ; under wing-coverts white, strongly tinged or washed with 

 buft", the carpometacarpal region spotted with black ; inner webs of sec- 

 ondaries broadly edged with buff, the primaries more narrowly edged 

 with the same. Upper mandible black, edged with whitish ; lower 

 mandible entirely whitish ; legs and feet light horn-color. Length (skin) 

 ;j.80, wing 2.30, tail 1.15, exposed culmeu .GO, bill from rictus .75, tar- 

 sus .80. 

 11. Phlogopsis bowmaui, Rikeh, M. S. 



Sp. char.— Similar to P. nigromaculata (Lafr. «& D'Orb.), but with 

 black spots on back, scapulars, and wings much larger and decidedly 

 transverse (instead of exactly the reverse), the edge of the wing much 

 more conspicuously spotted with white (this unbroken along tne arm- 



* Diclirozona, genus novum Forniicariidaruui (ciif = his, xpoid =^ color, ^<^ii/ = zon(t.) 

 Gex. char.— Similar in structure to Mi/rmotherula Sol., but bill longer, with 

 straigbter gonvs and decided gouydeal angle, tail relatively shorter, with much nar- 

 rower and softer feathers, a broad white bund across the lower back, and the two 

 wing-bauds underlaid by similar bauds on sub-basal portion of secondaries and greater 

 coverts. Type, J), zononota, sp. iiov. 



