278 FORMICAKIIDiE. 



Key to the Species, 



A. Larg'cr forms: bill and feet strong; tail 

 moderate ; breast not sriuaniated. 

 a Back and wings uniform chestnut-red. 



I Cap rufous 1 • longipes, p. 2/8 



j Cap ashy ^- houcardi, p. 2/0. 



6. Back and wings brown. 

 a'. Head black. 



a". Throat uniform. 



3 Wing-coverts spotted 3. e.vmd, p. 2, \). 



I Wing-coverts uniform 4. immavulata, p. 270. 



h". Throat s'potted •'">■ kemosticta, p. 280. 



//. Head brown like back 0- cbmamomea, p. 280. 



B. Middling forms : bill smaller ; tail long ; 



breast squamated. 



c. AVithout definite superciliaries i. ryficawlu, p. 281. 



d. With definite superciliaries. 



I Wing-spots white 8. squmnma, p. 2.^1. 



) W'ing-spots fulvous 9- loricaUi, p. 282. 



C. Smaller forms : bill smaller ; tail shorter ; 



breast black, not squamated. 

 ^. Belly cinereous. 



' \ Tail blackish 10. afrotJioni.v, p. 282. 



] Tail rufous 11- pi'l-chii, p. 283. 



/. Belly white ^ 2- heimmelmia, p. 28o. 



1. Myrmeciza longipes. 



Mvrmothera longipes, TieiU. Nouv. Diet. xii. p. 113 : id. Enc. Meth. 



p. G82 (?) ; Menctr. Mem. Acad. fiit. ri-fcnib. .^er. vi. {Sci. Ned.) t. i. 



p. 474. 

 Drymophila longipes, Sio. Zool. Journ. ii. p. lo2 ; id. Zoo]. 111. ser. 2, 



pi. 23 (fig. opt.) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 201. 

 Myrmonax longipes, Cab. Wiei/m. Arch. l8-i7, ^it. i. p. 210; L'urm. 



Sijst. Ueb. iii. p. 04. 

 Myiothera castanea, Licht. in Mus. Bcrol. 

 Myrmeciza longipes, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 240 ; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 18G; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 74. 

 IMyrmeciza swainsoni, Berl. Ibis, 1888, p. 130. 



Above cliestnut-red, slight concealed dorsal spot white; head and 

 neck cinereous, feathers of the cap margined with rufous-brown : 

 beneath, throat and breast black, middle of abdomen and under 

 wino-covcrts white ; flanks and crissum pale fulvous ; bill black ; 

 feet light brown : whole length 6 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-;}. Female. 

 Above like the male : beneath, throat and breast ferruginous; abdo- 

 men pale fulvous. 



Bab. Venezuela, Trinidad, and British Guiana. 



a. r? ad. sk. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 



c. d. cJ ad. ; e. 5 Quonga, Brit. Guiana Sidvin-Godman Coll. 

 al.;/. d'ji'.sk. {Whitehi). 



