288 FORJirOARIIDiE. 



Above and beneath niiiform bluish schistaccous ; tips of wing- 

 coverts with small round white spots : whole length 5 inches, 

 wing 2'5, tail 2. 



Ilal). Upper Amazonia. 



a. S ad.sk. Kio Javari. Purchased. (Type of the species.) 



7. Hypocnemis leucophrys. 



Thamnopliihis niyiotheriuus, Spi.v, Av. Bras. ii. p. 30, pi. 42. fig. 2(2). 

 Pithvs leueophrvs, Tsch. Faun. Per., Aces, p. 176, pi. 11. fig. 2 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 203. 

 !Myrmonax leucophrys, Cub. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 211. 

 Myrnioborus leucophrys, Cah. et Hein. Miis. Ilein. ii. p. 9. 

 Hvpocnemis leucophrys. Sclater, P. Z. S. \Soiy, p. 146 (Bojrota), et 

 "1858, p. 2r,2 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 188 ; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 88 ; 8cl. 



et Sale. Nomencl. p. 74; iid. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 237 (Venezuela); 



Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 67 ; Sale. Ibis, 1885, p. 428 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Conopophaga angu.stirostris, Cah. in Schonib. Guian. iii. p. 685. 

 Hypocnemis angustirostris, Scl. Cut. A. B. p. 188. 

 Myrnioborus angustirostris. Cub. et Ilein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 9 (note). 

 Pithys erythrophrys, Sdater, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 255, pi. 72. fig. 1. 

 Hvpocnemis ervtbrophrys, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 146, et 1858, 



p. 252 (Bogota). 



Above and beneath plumbeous ; broad front and snperciliaries 

 white ; sides of head and throat black ; bill and feet black : whole 

 length 5 inches, wing 2'6, tail 1-9. Female. Above I'ulvous-brown; 

 front and snperciliarics bright rufous; sides of head black; wing- 

 coverts with apical spots of fulvous white : beneath white, flanks 

 and crissnm dusky. 



Hah, Guiana, Amazonia, Colombia, and Venezuela. 



There is a good deal of variation in this widely-spread species, on 

 which, no doubt, subspecies might be fairly formed. The Bogota 

 birds are much darker beneath. 



a. c? ad. ; b. $ Kio Javari. Purchased. 



ad. sk. 



c, d. S 2 3.d. sk. Upp?r Amazons (Bates). Sclater Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Bio Nepo. Gould Coll. 



/, .(■/. JJ^i-d-sk. Guiana (i?ro?(vz). Sclater Coll. 



//, i. iS 5 fid. sk. Bartioa Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Whitely). 



i, Ii. 6 2 ad. sk. Takutu R., Brit. Guiana. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



7. 2 ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. (Type 



of H. eri/t/irophri/s.) 



m. S ad. ; n. (J Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



jr. sk. 



o, p. S ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



q, r. 2 ad. sk. Bogota. Salvhi-Godman Coll. 



s. 2 ad. sk. San Cristobal, Venezuela Sclater Coll. 



(Goering), 



8. Hypocnemis myiotherina. 



Thamnophilus myiothorinus, Sjn.v, Av. Bras. ii.p. 30, pi. 42. fig. 1 ( cT ). 

 Myiothera thamnopliiloides, T'oigt, Thierr. i. p. 494. 

 Drymophila rnyiotherinus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 202. 



