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18. PYEIGLENA. 



Type. 



Pyriglena, Cah. Wiegm. Arch. xiii. pt. i. p. 211 (1847). P. leucoptera. 



This is a small group of birds in which the males are of a uniform 

 black plumage, relieved only by a concealed white dorsal spot and, 

 in some species, by white edgings to the wing-coverts. The bill is 

 compressed, and the loral plumes are short and erect. The tarsi 

 are rather long and slender. Pyriglena occurs in Northern South 

 America down to Brazil. 



Kty to the Species. 



A. Larger : bill narrower. 



a. Wing-coverts edged with white 1. leucoptera, p. 269. 



b. Wing-coverts uniform black. 



I Bill stronger ; tarsi shorter 2. atra, p. 270. 



I Bill weaker ; tarsi longer 3. picea, p. 270. 



B. Smaller : bill broader ; wing-coverts edged 



with white 4. serva, p. 271. 



1. Pyriglena leucoptera. 



Turdus leucopterus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xx. p. 272 ; id. Enc. M6th. 



p. 666. 

 Lanius notodelos, Cuv. in Mus. Par. 

 Lanius domicella, Licht. DoM. p. 47. 

 Myiothera domicella, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 1058. 

 Formicivora doniicilla, Menetr. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. vi. (Set. 



Nat.) t. i. p. 603, pi. vii. figs. 1, 2. 

 Pyriglena domicella, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 212; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 202 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 59 ; Euler, J.f. O. 1867, 



p. 401 (Brazil). 

 Drymophila trifasciata, Sic. Zool. Journ, ii. p. 152 ; id. Zool. III. ser. 2, 



pi. 27. 

 Myrmeciza melanura, Strickl. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 417 ( ? ). 

 Thamnophilus domicella, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. i. p. 11. 

 Pyriglena leucoptera, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 246 (S.E. Brazil) ; 



id. Cat. A. B. p. 186 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 86 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. 



Hein. ii. p. 10 ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1873, p. 264 (S. Brazil) ; Scl. et Salv. 



Nomencl. p. 73 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 625 (Bolivia) ; Cab. J.f. O. 



1874, p. 85 (S. Brazil). 



Glossy black above and beneath ; large dorsal spot, lesser wing- 

 coverts, and two distinct terminal bands across the middle and 

 greater coverts pure white ; bill and feet black : whole length 

 6-8 inches, wing 6-\, tail ?. Female. Above fulvous brown; tail 

 blackish: beneath cinereous brown, paler in the middle of tha 

 belly. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil. 



a. (S ad. St. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



b. S ad. st. Brazil. Purchased. 



c. d. S 2 ^d. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brazil {Joyner). 

 e. c? ad. sk. Rio Claro, Goyaz, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Joyyier). 



