238 FOEMICARIID.E. 



paler, under wing-coverts cinereous : whole length 4 inches, wing 

 2-2, tail 1. Femule. Above greyish brown; wing-coverts and outer 

 secondaries black, with apical spots of pale fulvous : beneath clear 

 rufous. 



Hub. Amazonia, Colombia, and Eastern Ecuador. 



This appears to be the only species of the present section in which 

 the outer secondaries carry distinct apical spots. Otherwise it is some- 

 what similar to M. cinerelventris, but has a much shorter tail. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 (Type of the species.) 

 E." Bartlett [C.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



E. Bartlett [C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



15. Myrmotherula axillaris. 



Le Grisin de Cayenne, femelle, Buff. H. Enl. 643. fig. 2 ? 

 Myrmothera axillaris, Vieill. Nuuik Diet. xii. p. 113; id. Enc. MSih. 



p. 682 ; d'Orb. Votj., Ois. p. 183 ; Menetr. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 



ser. vi. (Sci. Nat.) t. i. p. 478. 

 Myiothera fuliginosa, Licht. Donbl. p. 45 (pt.). 

 Formicivora axillaris. Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 226 ; Bi). 



C'uiisj}. i. p. 200. 

 Myrmophila axillaris, Cab. et Hein. Miis. Hern. ii. p. 13. 

 Myrmotherula axillaris, Sclater, F. Z. S. 1858, p. 236 (pt.) ; id. 



Cat. A. B. p. 180 ; Pek. Orn. Bras. p. 82 ; Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 



p. 85 (Trinidad); Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 186, 1867, pp. 576, 



978, et 1873, p. 274 (Peru), et 1879, p. 624 (Bolivia); iid. 



Nomencl. p. 72; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 30 (N.E. Peru) ; id. Orn. 



Per. ii. p. 47 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 425 (Brit. Guiana). 



Above dark grey ; wings and tail blackish ; margins of wing- 

 coverts and tips of tail-feathers white : beneath blaclc, fluffy flanks 

 and inner margin of wing-feathers white ; bill and feet black : 

 whole length 3"7 inches, wing 2-1, tail 1'6. Female. Olive-brown ; 

 wings and tail blackish, with brownish edgings ; wing-coverts with 

 small apical spots of pale fulvous : beneath pale fulvous, throat 

 lighter, whitish, 



Uab. Guiana, Lower Amazonia, and Trinidad. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil (?). Major Finch [P.J. 



b, c. J 2 ad.sk. Bartica Grove, British Salvin-Godman (Joll. 



Guiana ( Whitcly), 



