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(near Quito; Cliiin])o; Rio Coca) and eastern Peru (Yurimag;uas ; 

 Tarapoto). 



Myiozetctes granadensis Lawrence, Ibis, Jan., 1862, 11 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.; 

 coll. G. N. Lawrence); Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 473 (do.); ix, 1868, 112 

 (Orosi, Costa Rica).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 219 (Bogota); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 751, 754 (monogr.; Honduras; Panama; Bogota; w. 

 Peru) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , xiv, 1888, 163 (Chontales, and Blewfields R. , Nica- 

 ragua; Chiriqui, Veragua, Panama, and San Pablo Station, Panama; Bo- 

 gota; Peru). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 359 

 Isthmus Panama; crit.); 1867, 279 (Blewfields R., Nicaragua; crit.); 1869, 598 

 (Peru). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 307 (Orosi, Costa Rica). — Salvin, 

 Ibis., 1872, 313, 318 (Chontales, Nicaragua).— Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1882, 20 (Yurimaguas, e. Peru); Orn. du Perou, ii, 1884, 276.— Ber- 

 LEPSCH and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 556 (Chimbo, w. 

 Ecuador; crit.).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 384 (Sucuyii, 

 Nicaragua); vi, 1884, 402 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1888, 42.— Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1889, 302 

 (Tarapoto, n. e. Peru; crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 72 

 (Quito, Ecuador).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 506 (Rio 

 Escondido, Nicaragua). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 21 

 (Loma del Leon, Panama); iii, 1902, 37 (Bogaba, Panama). — Goodfellow, 

 Ibis, 1901, 705 (Rio Coca. Ecuador; habits). 



Myiozetetes granadensis subsp.? Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. ZooL, ix, 1902, 

 46 (Orinoco district; crit.). 



[Myiozetetes] granadensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 49. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, .126. 



[Elainia] granadensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 353, no. 5357. 



Myiozetetes icterophrys Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., ix. May, 1861, 197 i Barancpiilla, 

 Colombia; coll. Heine Mus.). 



[Elainia] icterophrys Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 353, no. 5359. 



Genus PIPROMORPHA Bonaparte. 



Piproniorpha Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., i, 1854, 134 (ex Schiff, manu- 

 script). (Type, Mionectes oleagineus Cabanis.) 



Small Tyrannida? (wing about 60-6S mm.) with slender bill (its 

 width at anterior end of nostrils equal to not more than half the dis- 

 tance from nostril to tip of maxilla, and not conspicuously greater 

 than its depth at same point) ; rictal bristles very weak; nostril broadly 

 oval, overhung by narrow membrane and inclosing a large and very 

 distinct oblique flange or shelf; ninth primary normal, and coloration 

 plain olive-green above (the head sometimes gra^'ish) pale cinnamon 

 or ocher-yellowish beneath, passing into grayish or light yellowish 

 olive on throat. ■ 



Bill about half as long as head, narrow, tapering slightly in lateral 

 but conspicuously in vertical profile, its width at anterior end of nos- 

 trils equal to not more than half the distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla, and not conspicuously greater than its depth at same point; 

 exposed culmen longer than middle toe without claw, distinctly, 

 sometimes sharply, ridged, straight for most of its length, rather 



