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Panama (Lion Hill; Panama) through Colombia (Kio Tniando; 

 Bogota), Venezuela (La Pricion, Rio Caura), British Guiana (Bartica 

 Grove; Camacusa), Ecuador (Rio Napo; Sarayacu; Valle de Zamora) 

 and Peru (Pebas; Yurimaguas; Chamicuros; Upper Ucayali; Xeberos; 

 Chyavetas; Tarapata) to Cayenne and western Brazil (Borba and 

 Humaytha, Rio Madeira). 



[3Iiiscicapa] pygmpea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 933 (Cayenne; based on 

 Petit Gobe-mouche tachete de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 831, fig. 2). 



Muscicapa pygmaxi Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 488. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' 

 Hist. Nat., xxi, 1818, 484 (Cayenne). 



F[ormicivora] pygmsea Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., xiii, pt. i, 

 1847, 227. 



[Formicivord] pygmsca Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 200. 



Formicivora pygmsea Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 77. — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 147 (Bogota, Colombia); 1858, 67 (e. Ecuador). 



Myrmotherula pygmsea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 234 (monogr.); 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 179 (Rio Napo, e. Ecuador); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv, 

 1890, 230 (Bartica Grove and Camacusa, Brit. Guiana; Pebas, Yurimaguas, 

 and Chamicuros, e. Peru; Rio Napo and Sarayacu, e. Ecuador; Bogota, 

 Colombia).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 190 (Rio Truando, 

 Colombia)." — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 235 (Lion Hill, Pana- 

 md).« — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 185 (Upper Ucayali, 

 e. Peru); 1867, 750 (Xeberos, Yurimaguas, and Chyavetas, e. Peru), 978 

 (Pebas, e. Peru); 1873, 274 (Upper LTcayali, Xeberos, Yurimaguas, Chyavetas, 

 Chamicuros, and Pebas, e. Peru); 1879, 624 (Yuracares, Bolivia). — Pelzeln, 

 Orn. Bras., ii, Abth., 1869, 80; iv, Abth., 1870, 417.— Salvin, Ibis, 1870, 311 

 (Rio Truando, Colombia); 1874, 311 (synonymy); 1885, 425 (Brit. Guiana).— 

 Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, 30 (Yurimaguas, e. Peru); 

 Orn. du Perou, ii, 1884, 37.— Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 304 (Tarapata, 

 n. Peru); Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 154 (Cayenne). — Salvadori and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 362, i899, 29 (Valle de Zamora, Ecua- 

 dor). — Berlepsch and IIartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 73 (La Pricion, Rio 

 Cuara, Venezuela). — Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 382 (Borba and 

 Humaytha, Rio Madeira, Brazil; crit.). — Snethlege, Bol. Mus. Gocldi, v, 

 1908, 55 (Bom Lugar, Rio Puriis, n. Brazil). 



[Myrmotherula] pygmsea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 71. — ■ 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 20. 



M[yrmopkiJa] pygmsemn Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hcin., ii, July, 1859, 13, 

 footnote. 



Genus MYRMOPAGIS Ridgway. 



Myrmopagis & Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, Apr. 17, 1909, 69. (Type, 



Myrmothera axillaris Vieillot.) 

 (?) Myrinophila c Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, 12. (Type, 



Formicivora brevicauda Swainson.) 



" These two references, very strangely, are placed under 31. surinav}ensis in the 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana (Aves, ii, 209). I have seen the specimens on which 

 they are based, and they are M. pygmsea, not M. surinamensis. 



b Mopiiij^, an ant; nay eg, a trap. 



c "Von n'jpnoc (Ameise) und (J>d£io (lieben)." (Cabanis and Heine.) 



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