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MAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 209, part. — Salvadori and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 362, 1899, 29 (Gualaquiza, e. Ecuador; 

 Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuad6r). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 

 ii, 1900, 23 (Loma del Le6n, Panamd). — Goodfellow, Ibis, 1902, 64 (San 

 Nicolas and Gualea, w. Ecuad6r). — Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., 

 ix, 1902, 73 (Munduapo, etc., Venezuela; crit.). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 

 1902, 612 (San Javier and Pambildr, n. w. Ecuad6r; crit.). — Hellmayr, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1906, 53 (Para, Brazil).— Berlepsch, Novit. 

 Zool., XV, 1908, 154 (Cayenne). 



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

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



Myrmotherula surinamensis surinamensis Menegaux and Hellmayr, Bull. Soc. 

 Philom., ser. 9, viii, 1906, 48 (crit.). 



M[yrmotherium] surinamense Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, 13, 

 footnote. 



M[yrmotherula] surinamensis typica Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mua., xv, 1890, 232, 

 in list of specimens (Veragua, Panama, and San Pablo Station, Panamd; 

 Bogota and Remedios, Colombia; Intac and Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador; Takutu 

 River, Carimang River, and Camacusa, Brit. Guiana). 



Myiothera pusilla Pucheran (ex Cuvier, manuscript), Archiv. Mus. Paris, vii, 

 1855, 335, part (Cayenne; =adult male; see Menegaux and Hellmayr, Bull. 

 Soc. Philom., 1906, 48). 



MYRMOTHERULA PYGM^A (Gmelin). 



PYGMY ANTWREN. 



Adult male. — Pileiim and hindneck black, narrowly streaked with 

 pale yellowish buff or buffy wliitish; scapulars and interscapulars 

 black, the former with outer web broadly edged with yellowish white, 

 the latter with much less distinct wliitish edgings; rump pale gray, 

 slightly tinged with buffy yellowish; tail black, the rectrices nar- 

 rowly edged with grayish; wings black, the middle and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped (on outer webs) with yellowish white (forming two 

 conspicuous wing-bands), the remiges narrowly edged (except on 

 basal portion of distal secondaries and ])roximal primaries) with 

 yellowish white; auricular and suborbital regions pale yellowish 

 buffy, margined above and below by a rather broad postocular and 

 a malar streak of black; chin and throat white; rest of under parts 

 primrose or pale straw yellow, including under wing-coverts and 

 broad edgings to inner webs of remiges; maxilla blackish brown with 

 paler tomium, mandible dull yellowish or whitish in dried skins, gray 

 in hfe;*^ iris dark brown; '^ legs and feet horn color in dried skins, 

 oHve-green in hfe;'^ length (sldn), 65; wing, 38.5; tail, IG; culmen, 

 13; tarsus, 15.5; middle toe, 8.5.^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male "but cap striped with 

 pale rufous; throat fulvous." ^ 



o Cherrie; see Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 73. 

 b One specimen from Panamd. 



c Sclater, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 230. I have not seen the female of this 

 species. 



