22. MYEMECIZA. 283 



white ; breast bright buffy rufous ; middle of belly white ; flanks 

 and crissum cinereous. 



Hah. Cayenne, Guiana, Amazonia, iuterior of Brazil, and Bolivia. 



a, b, c. cJ ad. ; il. Merume Mts., Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. ( WMtchj). 



e. 5 <id. sk. Oyapoe, Cayenne {Jehhl). Sclater Coll. 



_/". cj ad. sk. Eio Negro, Northern Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



(/. (S <itl. sk. Samiria, Upper Amazons Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Huuxwell). 



h. J ad. sk. Chamicuros, E. Peru. E. Bartlett [P.]. 



/,./. J $ ad. sk. Villa Maria, Brazil {Nat- Sclater Coll. 



tercr.) 



(Authentic specimens of Cercomacra mehnvn-a.) 



/,-. c^ ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Salvin-Ciodman Cull. 



Brazil (//. H. SviHh). 



I. c5 jr. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



11. Myrmeciza pelzelni. 



Cercomacra ruficauda, Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 85, 158. 

 Mvrmeciza ruficauda, 8d. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 248 (S.E. Brazil) : i<l. 

 'Cat. A. B. p. 18G ; Sd. ct 8ah\ Komend. p. 74. 



Above dark fulvous-brown ; wings and tail brown ; wing-coverts 

 terminated by a large rounded fulvous spot, which is bordered by a 

 black band ; sides of the head and lateral line down the neck 

 cinereous : beneath, throat and breast down to the middle of the 

 bcUy black, passing into cinereous beneath and at the sides; flanks 

 and crissum brownish : biU black ; feet brown : whole length 4-7 

 inches, wiiig 2*2, tail 1'9. Female, xibove like the male ; sides of 

 head and body beneath white, breast slightly varied with blackish ; 

 flanks and crissum fulvous-brown. 



Hall, Cayenne and Lower Amazonia. 



This species is allied to M. atrothorax, and has a similar black 

 throat and breast. But the colour above is of a darker fulvous- 

 brown, the tail is rufous-brown instead of blackish, and the wing- 

 spots are laiger and of a pale fulvous. There is also no white 

 dorsal spot, and no rufous breast-band in the female. 



a, h. cJ 5 ^d. sk. Marabitanas, Eio Negro, Sclater Coll. 



Brazil (Natterer). (Types of the species.) 



c,d. (5 2 ad. sk. Oyapoe, Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'')/"• 6 ad. sk. Oyapoe, Cayenne. Purchased. 



12. Myrmeciza hemiinelaBna. 



Thamnophilus guttatus, (VOrb. et Lnfr. Sipi. Av. i. p. 18 : il'Orb. 



Vol)., Ois. p. 177 (:-■). 

 ^[yrmeciza heminieltena, Sd. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 48, et 1858, p. 249 



(BoUvia) ; Sd. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 757, et 1873, p. 275 (E. 



Peru), et 1879, p. (325 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomeiid. p. 74 ; Tacz. P. Z. \ 



1874, p, 5.-i0 (C. Peru), et 1882, p. 31 (N.E. Peru) ; id. Ont. Per. 



ii. p. 59. 



Above brown, head and neck black ; concealed dorsal spot white 



