29. ANCISTE0P8, 103 



e. Ad. sk. Interior of Colombia. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



/. S fid. sk. Frontioo, U. S. C. {Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. Ad. .sk. P^ciiador. Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Eastern Cordillera of Qiiito Jardiue Coll. 



(Jmneson), 



2. Thripadectes scrutator. 



Thripadectes scrutator, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 137, 527 (C. Peru) ; 

 id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 14(3. 



Like T.jiammulatus, but still larger ; back reddish browu, almost 

 unspotted ; rump ciimamomeous ; head and uape striped with black 

 and greyish fulvous ; throat and neck black, striated with rufous : 

 beneath entirely pale brown, with narrow fulvous striations ; wings 

 and tail cinnamomeous rufous, inner webs of the remiges margined 

 ■with blackish brown : whole length 10 inches, wing 3-7, tail 4'3. 

 {Tacz.) 



Hah. Central Peru. 



3. Thripadectes virgaticeps. 



Thripadectes virgaticeps, Lain: Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 398 (1874). 



Front, crown, cheeks, and hind neck blackish brown, the feathers 

 of all these parts with broad shaft-stripes, those of the crown and 

 hind neck greyish white, the others of a pale rufous ; upper part of 

 the back dull reddish brown, the lower part of the back and rump 

 deep bright cinnamon ; tail lirownish cinnamon ; wing-coverts and 

 outer webs of quills also cinnamon-brown, but of not so deep a 

 colour as the tail ; the inner webs of the quill-feathers are dark 

 brown, with their inner margins broadly marked with pale cinna- 

 mon ; under wing-coverts bright cinnamon ; the feathers of the 

 chin and upper part of the throat are reddish fulvous with brownish- 

 black mai'gins ; the under plumage is of a rather dull cinnamon-red, 

 brownish on the lower part of the neck ; bill black ; tarsi and toes 

 dark brown : whole length 8g inches, wing 4^, tail 4, bill 1, tarsi 1-j^. 

 {Lawrence.) 



Hah. Ecuador. 



29. ANCISTROPS. 



Type. 

 Aneistrops, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 157 (1862) A. slrigilatus. 



The strongly hooked upper mandible and ascending gonys at once 

 distinguish this peculiar monotype from Upper Amazonia. The feet 

 are rather weak, and the tarsi short. 



1. Aneistrops strigilatus. 



Thanmophilus strigilatus, Sjn'x, Av. Bras. ii. p. 26, t. xxxvi. fig. 1. 

 Anabates lineaticeps, Scl. Ann. S," Mag. N. II. ser. 2, xvii. p. 468 



(1856) ; id. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 61 (Rio Napo). 

 Aneistrops lineaticeps, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 157 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 566, 1867, p. 750, et 1873, p. 270 (Peru) ; iid. Nomenel. 



p. 65 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 20 (N.E. Peru) ; id. Orn. Per. ii. 



p. 147. 



