36. MAEGAEORNIS. 121 



Cap olive-brown, with the shafts pale ; back rufous-olive ; outer 

 secondaries, rump, and tail cinnamon-red : beneath brownish olive ; 

 sides of head and throat spotted with pale yellowish ; crissum 

 cinnamomcous. {Peheln.) 



Hah. Amazonia. 



36. MARGARORNIS. ™ 



Type._ 



Margarornis, Reichenh. Handh. d. sp. Oni. p. 179 (1852) M. squamigera. 



Anabasitta, Lafr. Hcv. Zool. 185.3, p. 402 M. squamigeia. 



Man/arornis contains six species remarkable for the pearl-like 

 spots which ornament their inferior plumage. The form is allied 

 to Slftosomus, and has a similar Sylviine bill, but a softer and not so 

 spiny tail. It is distributed from Costa Ilica to Peru and Bolivia. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



A. Back not spotted. 



a. Back chestnut-red. 



a'. Belly with large oval spot*'. 



I Head chestnut 1. squami(jera, p. 12^. 



i Head brown 2. perhta, p. l21. 



h' . Belly with small round spots. 



I Breast rusty, spots distinctly mar- 

 gined with black 3. stellata, p. 122. 

 Breast pale fulvous, spots slightly 

 ended witli black 4. ruhiyinosa, p. 122. 



b. Back brown 5. bruniiescens, p. 123. 



B. Back spotted 6. guttata, p. 123. 



1. Margarornis squamigera, 



Anabates squamigera, d'Orb. etLafr. Si/n. Av. ii. p. 14 ; d'Orb. Voy. 



Ois. p. .369, pi. liv. fig. 2. 

 Anabasitta squamigera, Lafr. liev. Zool. 1853, p. 492. 

 Margarornis squamiger, Reichb. Ilandb. p. 179. 

 Margarornis squamigera, Salvin, Ibis, 1874, p. .322 ; Sci. et Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 622 (Bolivia). 



Above chestnut-red ; superciliaries and spots on sides of neck 

 clear yellowish : beneath brown, profusely spotted with large shaft- 

 spots of clear pale yellowish, which are definitely margined with 

 black ; under wing-coverts and a large blotch at the base of the 

 wing-feathers pale fulvous : whole length 5'.5 inches, wing 3, tail 3. 

 Female similar. 



Hah. Bolivia. 



a,b. Ad.sk. Tilotilo,Yungas, Bolivia (i?Kf/i"/('^). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 

 c. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Purchased. 



2. Margarornis perlata. 



Sittasomus perlatus. Lesson, Echo d. Monde Sai: 1844, p. 275 

 (Bogota) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 209. 



