3. THAMNorHims. 205 



i. S ad. sk. Tumbez, Peru {Jelski). Sc-later Coll. 



j. S ad. sk. S. America. Eyton Coll. 



k. 2 ad- sk. S. America. E. Wilsou, Esq. [P.]. 



41. ThamnopMlus loreto-yacuensis. 



Tbamnophilus loreto-yacuensis, Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1882, p. .374 (E. 



Peru) ; Tarz. Om. Per. ii. p. 13. 

 Tliamnophilus atricapillus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 18GG, p. 185, et 1873, 



p. 273. 



Above . dark grey mixed with blackish : crested head black ; 

 ■wings black, margined with white ; tail black, tipped with white, 

 and with a white bar on the outer web of the outer rectrix : beneath 

 greyish mixed with white ; sides of head, throat, neck, and line 

 down the middle of the breast black; bill and feet black; under 

 wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers white : whole 

 length 6 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2-6. Female similar to that of Th. 

 c'wrliatus. 



Hah. Upper Amazonia. 



Similar to Th. cirrhatus, but distinguished by its blackish back. 



a. S ad. sk. Loreto-yacu, E. Peru (Haux- Sclater Coll. \ 



icell). \ „ 



h. S ad. sk. Loreto-yacu, E. Peru (Haux- Purchased. I JY?^ 



xvell). °f tl><^ 



c, f?. J ? ad. sk. Loreto-yacu, E. Peru {Haux- Salvln-God- \ ^\^^^^^^- 



ivell). mau Coll. / 



e. (S ad. sk. Upper Ucayali {Bartlett). Sclater Coll. 



42. ThamnopMlus melanonotus. 



Thamnophilus melanonotus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 18oo, p. 19, pi. 80, et 

 1858, p. 216 (Santa Marta) ; id. Edmb. Phil. Journ. n. s. i. p. 242 ; 

 id. Cat. A. B. 1^. 175 ; Scl. et Salv. Nome?icl. p. 70. 



Above, head, neck, and upper back black, with a large white 

 basal blotch on the iuterscapulars ; rump grey, upper tail-coverts 

 black, with broad white ends ; wings black, with broad white 

 margins to the coverts and secondaries ; tail black, with broad 

 white ends to the outer and narrower white ends to the middle 

 rectrices, and a white bar on the outer web of the outer pair: 

 beneath, throat, neck, and breast black, belly white with a greyish • 

 tinge ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers 

 white ; bill and feet black : whole length 6'5 inches, wing 3, tail 

 2'G. Female. Above brown ; cap blackish ; wing-coverts and outer 

 secondaries broadly edged with pale fulvous ; tail dark rufous ; 

 outer margins of external rectrices and tips of others pale fulvous : 

 beneath ciunamomeous, throat whitish. 



Hab. N. littoral of Colombia and Ycnezuela. 



This species is apparently allied to the group of T7i. cirrhatus, 

 but has a shorter crest, and the upper surface uniform black down 

 to the middle of the back. 



