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an. Rump chestnut-rufous; bend of wing olive-brown. 



b. Larger (wing of female 84.5, tail, 90, bill, from rictus, 20). (Eastern Ecuad6r.) 



Deconychura secunda (extralimital).'* 

 bb. Smaller (wing of female 75, tail 72, bill, from rictus, Ki). (llio Madeira, north- 

 western Brazil to eastern Peru.) Deconychura stictolsema (extralimital).^ 



DECONYCHURA TYPICA Cherrie. 

 CHERRIE'S DECONYCHURA. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileiim olive or brownish olive, indistinctly 

 streaked with darker, and with indistinct narrow shaft-streaks of 

 buffy (at least on forehead) ; back, scapulars, rump, and wing- 

 coverts plain olive-brown or raw-umber, passing into chestnut on 

 upper tail-coverts, tail, secondaries, and outer webs of proximal 

 (inner) primaries, the outer webs of distal primaries lighter and less 

 rufescent brown; shafts of rectrices dark chestnut, those of remiges 

 black, or nearly so; a narrow superciliary stripe of buff; auricular 

 and submalar regions streaked with dull buff and dusky, the latter 

 predominating on upper portion of auricular region, forming an 

 indistinct postocular streak; malar region, chhi, and throat dull 

 buff, the first indistinctly streaked with dusky; feathers of chest 

 dark olive or dusky marked with a large central, more or less guttate 

 spot of buff; rest of under parts light olive-brown or buffy grayish 

 brown (nearest isabella color), the breast (sometimes abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts also) more or less distinctly streaked with buff; 

 under wing-coverts clear ochraceous-buff ; inner webs of remiges deep 

 cinnamon-rufous passing into buffy on edge, the terminal portion, 

 abruptly, duskj*; maxilla dusky horn color or blackish, paler along 

 tomia; mandible dull whitish or pale yellowish (plumbeous in life);'' 

 iris brown;'' legs and feet dusky (plumbeous in life).*' 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 183-194 (188); wing, 94-102 (97.2); 

 tail, 89.5-96 (93.9); culmen, 19.5-23 (22.1); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.1); 

 middle toe, 13.5-15 (14.3).'' 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 174-180 (176); wing, 86-90 (88); 

 tail, 83.5-88 (86.5); culmen, 20-21.5 (20.6); tarsus, 19-20 (19.6); 

 middle toe, 13-13.5 (13.2).« 



a Deconychura secunda Ilcllmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xiv, no. civ, Feb. 27, 1904, 

 51 (Rio Coca, upper Rio Napo, e. Ecuador; coll. Tring Mua.). — D[econychura] secunda 

 Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 3G8 (diagnosis). 



b Sittasoi7ius stictoliemus Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., i, Abth., 1868, 42, 59 (Borlja, Rio 

 Madeira, w. Brazil; coll. Vienna Mus.). — Sittosomus sliclolxmus Sclater, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 120. — D[cconyclmra] stictolacinus Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 

 no. 2, Nov., 1907, 368 (Borba, Brazil; diagnosis). 



c Zeled6n, manuscript. 



d Six specimens. 



« Four specimens. 



