FAMILY FORMICARIIDAE I25 



Description. — Length 165-180 mm. Bill large, swollen, depth and 

 width at nostril about equal ; maxilla deeply notched and strongly 

 hooked at the tip ; mandible sharply toothed at distal end ; a bushy 

 decumbent crest. Adult male, crown black, with the forehead and 

 fore crown finely barred with white (barred narrowly with white 

 over entire crown in first adult dress) ; rest of upper surface. 



Figure 11. — Fasciated ant-shrike, hormiguerote rayado, Cyiiibilaiinus lineatus 



fasciatus, male. 



including side of head, wings, and tail black barred narrowly with 

 white ; under surface, including under wing coverts and axillars white, 

 barred narrowly with black ; inner webs of secondaries and inner 

 primaries white. 



Adult female, forehead white (or buff in first adult dress) barred 

 narrowly with black ; rest of crown, including crest, cinnamon-rufous 



