58. MYIADECTES. 375 



c. Ad. ek. West side of Rocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Mountains. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Oregon. Lord Walsingham [P.]. 



8. Myiadectes ralloides. 



Muscipeta armillata {nee V.), Lafr. et UOrb. Mag. de Zool. 1837, 



p. 48. 

 Muscipeta ralloides, D'Orb. Voy. Amer. nierid. p. 322. 

 Ptilogonvs griseiventer. Tschudi, Arch.f. Nat. 1844, p. 270; id. Fatm, 



Pentan., Aves, pp. 7, 140 (1846) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 281 (1846). 

 Myiadestes griseiventer. Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1847, p. 209 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 336 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. .55 (1850), 

 Myiadestes venezuelensis, Sclater, Ann. Nat. Hist. (2) xvii. p. 468 



(1856) ; id. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 6, 1860, p. 64; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 48 (1862) ; Baird, Revieiv Amer. B. p. 427 (1864). 

 Myiadestes ralloides, 8d. ^ Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 53, pi. xxvii. (1869); 



id. Nomencl. Av. Nentr. p. 4 (1873). 

 Ptilogonys ralloides, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 366, no. 5578 (1869). 

 Myiadectes ralloides, Hale. ^- Godni. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 



(1879). 



Adult male (San Esteban, Venezuela ; A. Gearing). General colour 

 above warm orange-brown, richer on the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; greater 

 coverts and primary-coverts dusky brown, margined with orange- 

 brown, and the former tipped narrowly with pale orange-buft"; 

 quills dusky brown, externally edged with orange-brown ; the 

 secondaries cons])icuously light fulvous at the base, succeeded by a 

 black patch on the outer web of all but the innermost, which are 

 almost entirely orange-brown ; centre tail-feathers obscure reddish 

 brown, the remainder dusky brown, externally washed with reddish 

 brown, and having a tiny white spot at the tip; the two outer 

 feathers ashy brown on the outer web, with a wedge-shaped patch 

 of white, small on the penultimate but very large on the external 

 feather ; crown of head ashy, strongly washed with the same colour 

 as the back, much lighter and clearer grey at the base of the fore- 

 head and over the lores ; the latter dusky blackish ; sides of face 

 and ear-coverts, as well as the entire under surface of body, light 

 slaty grey, washed with orange-brown on the lower flanks and 

 thighs ; the lower abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts slaty grey, 

 edged with orange-brown, the long ones tipped with white ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts light slaty grey, tipped with white ; 

 quills dusky brown below, white at the base of the inner web ; bill 

 blackish, the lower mandible yellow ; " iris dark or reddish brown " 

 (Salmon). Total length 7 inches, culmen O-oo, wing 3-35, tail 2-85, 

 tarsus 0"8. {Mus. Salvia and Godman.) 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the adult male. Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3*4, tail 3, tarsus 0"75. 



Younr/. Mottled all over with tawny-rufous spots, margined with 

 black ; the abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish, mottled sMghtly 

 with dusky bars. 



