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FORMICA EIIDiE. 



Above cinereous, cap and nape black ; interscapulium mixed with 

 black, and with a white basal blotcli ; wings, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail black, margined and tipped with white ; all the tail-feathers 

 •with a white spot on both webs : beneath cinereous, whitish on the 

 middle of the belly and crissum ; under wing-coverts and inner 

 margins of wing-feathers white ; bill and feet plumbeous : whole 

 length 5 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-3. Female. Above brownish ; 

 head and interscapulium rufous ; wings and tail rufescent, margined 

 and tipped with white as in male, but without the white spots on the 

 rcctrices, except in the outer pair, where they are faintly visible. 



Hah, South-east Brazil. 



The spotted tuil-feathers at once distinguish this species from all 

 its allies. 



a, 6. c?ad. ; c, fZ. $ Baliia, Brazil ( Jft^e^e/w). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. 



■ e. S ad. sk. Bahin, Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



f}ff-62 ^^- sk. Bio de .Janeiro. Sclater Coll. 



fi, i. (S ? ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brazil (//. H. Smith), 



j, k. S ad. sk. S.P]. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



/. ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



m. S ad. St. S.E. Brazil. Purchased. 



Sect. E. Of smaller size ; head more or less crested and black ; 

 wings black with white edgings : tail with white tip. (Grouj) 

 of Th. cirrJiatus.) 



Key to the Species. 



A. Middle of belly white. 



a. Cap black, difterent from back. 

 a'. Back brown. 



a". Nape grey or whitish. 

 a'". Back duller rufous. 



\ Tail not barred 37. cirrhatus, p. 202. 



\ Tail barred 38. crisiatus, p. 203. 



h'". Back brighter rufous 39. /««fc/;e//?<s, p. 204. 



h". Nape broadly white 40. albinuchalis, p. 204. 



h' . Back blackish 41. loreto-yamensis, p. 205. 



h. Back black like ca]) 42. melanonotus, p. 205. 



B. Middle of belly white with black cross 



bars 43. aspersiventris, ]3. 20G. 



37. Thamnophilus cirrhatus. 



Pie-grieche hupfe du Canada, Buff. VI. Enl. 479. fig. 2. 



Lauius canadensis, Li7m. S. N. i. p. 134 ( ?). 



Lanius atricapillus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 302(?). 



Le Fourmilier hupp6, Biiff. Hist. Nat. iv. p. 476. 



Turdus cirrhatus, Gin. S. N. i. p. 820. 



li.inius ])ik'atus, Laf/i. Incl. Orn. i. p. 76. 



Tyrannus atricajiillus, I'ieill. Ois. de I' Am. Sept. i. p. 78, pi. 48 (<5). 



Tyrannus canadensis, VieiU. Ois. de I'Am. Sept. i. p. 79, pi. 49. 



Thamnophilus cirrhatus, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 687. 



