59. cicHLOPsis. 377 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey ; the wing-coverts 

 blackish like the back, edged with slaty grey ; primary-coverts 

 blackish ; quills blackish, the primaries edged with ashy, the 

 secondaries blackish, ashj- grey at the base and near the tip of the 

 outer web ; tail-feathers dark slate-colour, the outer feathers ashy 

 brown towards the end, which is narrowly margined with white ; 

 base of forehead, lores, and sides of face black, the fore part of 

 cheeks and ear-coverts dark slate-colour ; over the eye a shade of 

 lighter ashy, forming a slight eyebrow ; chin black; the remainder 

 of the under surface light slaty grey, a little more dusky on the 

 under tail-coverts : under wing-coverts and axiUaries like the breast ; 

 quills dusky blackish below, white at the base of the inner web. 

 Total length 6-25 inches, culmeu 0-6, wing 3-3, tail 2-85, tarsus 0'8. 



Young. Differs from the adults in being mottled all over with 

 spots of ochraceous buff, each spot margined with a blackish line ; 

 the spots on the under surface rather paler. (J/ks. Salvin and 

 Godman.) 



The Black-faced Solitaire inhabits Costa Eica, whence it ranges 

 into Yeragua. 



a. c? ad. sk. CalovsAora, Yeragua (Arce). Osbert Salvin, Esq. 



b. xid. sk. Costa Eica. Mr. Yan Patten [C.]. 



11. Myiadectes leucotis. 



rtilogonys leucotis, Tschudi, Arch. f. Natwg. 1844, p. 270 ; id. Faun. 



Perua'n. p. 2l>, pi. 7. tip-. -2 ( I>4.5) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 281 (1846); 



id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 3G(i, uo. 5.J79 (1869). 

 Myiadestes leucotis, Bp.Conq). i. p. 336 (1850) ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl. 



'Av. Neotr. p. 4 (1873). 



Adult. Cinnamon colour, the head and neck black ; back, rump, 

 and upper wing-coverts cinnamon ; a broad white band stretching 

 from the angle of the bill to the ear-coverts ; throat, breast, abdo- 

 men, and vent black ; flanks rufous ; primary quills black, the base 

 of the inner web white ; the outer webs of the secondaries rufescent, 

 the inner ones blackish ; six inner tail-feathers black, the outer ones 

 white at the tip : upper mandible black, the lower one yellow ; feet 

 intense black ; iris fiery red. Total length 9 inches. {Tschudi.) 



The White-faced Solitaire inhabits Peru. 



59. CICHLOPSIS. 



? Tui'dampelis, Less. Echo du Monde Savant, 1844, p. 156. Type. 



Cichlopsis, Cab. Mus. Hcin. Th. i. p. 54 (1850) C. leucogenys. 



Myiocichla, Bp. C. R. xxxAlii. p. 6 (1854) C. leucogenys. 



Cf. Baird, Revieiv Amcr. B. pp. 43.3-435. 

 Ranijc. Confined to South America. 



