12. HEKPSILOCHMTIS, 245 



Key to the Species. 



A. Outer margins of primaries wliite or wliitisli. 



a. Witliout a black pectoral spot. 

 a'. Middle of belly white. 



a". Smaller: tail shorter. 



I Middle rectrices not spotted. ... 1. pileatus, p. 245. 



] ^liddle rectrices spotted 2. sticturus, p. 245. 



b" . Larger: tail longer. 



J Middle rectrices baiTed 3. dorsimaculntus, p. 246. 



j Middle rectrices uot barred .... 4. loni/iroxtris, p. 24G. 



b'. Middle of belly pale ochraceous. . .. 5. atricapillun, ]>. 246. 



b. With a black pectoral spot G. pectoralis, p. 247. 



13. Outer margins of primaries rufous. 



I Margins ]ialer rufous 7. ricfimarr/innfm, \i. 247. 



j Margins darker rufous 8. f rater, p. 248. 



1. Herpsilochmus pileatus. 



Myiothera pileata, Z«c/(<. Verz. Douhl. p. 44 ; 31ax. Beitr. iii. p. 1078. 

 Formicivora pileata, Menetr. Mem. St. Petersb. ser. vi. (Set. Nat.) 



t. i. p. 485 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 78. 

 Thamnophilus pileatus, d'Orb. et Lafr. Sijn. pt. i. p. 12 ; d'Orb. Voi/., 



Ois. p. 175. 

 Herpsilochmus pileatus, Cab. Wieqm. Arch.\Q47, pt. i. p. 224; BjJ. 



t'lw.tp. i. p. lOU; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 2:33 ; Pe/z. Orn. Bras. p. 80 ; 



Set. et Sale. Nomencl. p. 71 ; iid. P.Z. S. 1879, p. 624 (Bolivia); 



Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 347 (N.E. Brazil) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 347. 



Above cinereous ; cap black ; superciliaries •white ; dorsal spot 

 black mixed with white ; wings black ; apical spots on coverts and 

 outer margins of external secondaries white ; tail black tipped with 

 white : beneath pale cinereous, throat and middle of belly nearly 

 white ; biU plumbeous ; feet black: whole length 4 inches, wing 1'8, 

 tail 1"5. Female similar, but cap spotted with white {Meiietries). 



Ilah. S.E. Brazil and Bolivia. 



a. c? ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Herpsilochmus sticturus. 



Herpsilochmus sticturus. Sale. Ibis, 1885, p. 424 (Brit. Guiana). 



Similar to ILpiJeatHS, but the middle rectrices with two white spots 

 on the inner webs, and with rather more black on the iutcrscapulium. 

 Hah. British Guiana. 



a. 5 ad.sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana (Tr7«Yc/y). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b, c. (S ad. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. , 

 sk. {Whitch/). ( Types of the species.) 



d,e.(S 2 ^d. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiaua Sclater Coll. 

 sk. {Mlutcly). 



