290 TIMELnDiE. 



Ranr/e. From Costa Rica and Panama to Guiana, and through 

 Ecuador and the Upper Amazons to Peru and Bolivia. 



Key to the Sjtecies. 

 a. Wings and taU bcarred. 



a'. Sides of neck mottled with black and white, 

 the feathers being- black with broad white 



centres of a triangular shape miisicus, p. 290. 



b'. No black and white mottling on the sides of 



• he neck. 



a''. No black on the chin or sides of the 



throat or fore part of cheeks ; forehead 



bright chestnut. 



a'". Light umber-brown above ; forehead 



and crown bright chestnut ; ear-coverts 



bright chestnut, dark brown along the 



upper margin inodulator, p. 291. 



h'" . Dark umber-brown above, the fore- 

 head only bright chestnut ; ear- 

 coverts entirely dark brown salvini, p. 292. 



h". Chin, sides of upper throat, and fore part 



of cheeks blackish. 



c'". Breast and abdomen ochraceous brown, 



washed with rufous. 



a*. Dark cbestnut-brown, the crown 



blackish ; primary-coverts uniform ; 



throat and breast rich chestnut .... pJtaocephalus, p. 292. 

 6*. Brown above, somewhat inclining to 

 olive-brown ; primary-coverts barred; 

 throat and breast orange-chestnut. . hrunnescens, p. 293. 



d'". Centre of abdomen and breast liffht , , .. nr,r, 



„„!,„ u„ ™ Imorenm, p. 29-3. 



ashv brown ■! ,, . ' '^ „„ , 



I tlioi-acicus, p. ^94. 



h. Wings and tail not baiTed dichrous, p. 294. 



1. Cyphorhinus musicus. 



Musicien de Cayenne, Daub. PI. Enl. v. pi. 709. fig. 2. 



L'Arada, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 480. 



Musician Thrush, Lctth. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 80. 



Formicarius musicus, Bodd. Tctbl. PI. Enl. p. 44 {ex Bvf.). 



Turdus cantans, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 825. 



Turdus arada, Lath. Ind. Orti. i. p. 358. 



Thryothorus carinatus, Sicains. Birds of Brazil, pi. 14. 



Platyurus rubecula, Sicai7is. Classif. B. ii. p. 319. 



Cyphorhinus cantans. Cab. Arch. f. Katunj. 1847, p. 207; id. Schomb. 



Reis. Guian. iii. p. 673 : id. Mus. Hcin. Th. i. p. 79 ; Bp. Cotisp. i. 



p. 224. 

 Cyphorhinus carinatus, Cab. in TscJiudi, Faun. Pernan., Vdg. p. 184, 



note ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 156. 

 Cyphorhinus musicus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 156 ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. 



^. i. p. 19 ; Scl. S)- Salv. Ex. Orn. text to pi. xxii. ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 193, no. 2G59; Peh. Ibis, 1873, p. Ill; Scl. sf Salv. Ao- 



mencl. Av. Keotr. p. 6; Salv. ^ Godm, Biol. Centr.-Amcr., Aves, i. 



p. 75. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, slightly washed with 

 rufous-oclire ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; 



