27. PHLOGOPsis. 299 



a,h. S 2 ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



^■,d. (£ 2 ad. sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 ( Whitely). 



e. $ ad. sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitely). 



f. S ad. sk. British Guiana. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. 2 ad. sk. Demerara (Brotvn). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h, i. S 2 ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador [Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ;", A. c? 2 ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Sclater Coll. 



/. Sk. S. America. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



Type. 



27. PHLOGOPSIS *. 



Phlegopsis, Reichcnb. Av. Syst. pi. Ivii. (1850). 



Phlogopsis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 276 P. nigromaculata. 



The wholly denuded eye-region and longer tail separate this form 

 from F'ormicarius, besides which the tarsi are nearly smooth, the 

 divisions of the scutes being obsolete, and the nostrils are rounded 

 and placed further forward. 



Phlogopsis extends from Nicaragua southwards ove : Colombia and 

 Amazonia. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Remiges not banded. 



a. Breast uniform blackish ; tail chestnut. 



) Back-spots smaller 1. nigromaculata, p. 299. 



j Back-spots larger 2. botvmani, p. 300. 



I). Breast chestnut with black spots ; tail 



blackish 3. macleannani, p. 300. 



B. Remiges banded. 



I With white spots 4. trivittata, p. 300. 



] With chestnut spots 5. erythroptera, p. 301. 



1. Phlogopsis nigromaculata. 



Myothera nigromaculata, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. i. p. 14; (VOrb. 



Voy., Ois. p. 190, pi. bis. fig. 3. 

 Formicarius nigromaculatus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 47, et 1858, p. 68. 

 Phlogopsis nigro-maculata, Sclafm; P. Z. iS. 1858, p. 276 ; id. Cat. 



A. B. p. 190; SuIp. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 73 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 90; 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 576 (L. Amazons), et 1879, p. 625 



(Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 75 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 76. 



Above olive-brown ; head black ; wings and tail chestnut ; inter- 

 scapulium, wing-coverts, and outer secondaries marked with large 

 black ovoid spots : beneath black, passing into brown upon the 

 belly and flanks ; bill and feet black : whole length 6-5 inches, 

 wing 3-3, tail 2*3. Female similar. 



Hah. Amazonia and Eastern Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Para, Lower Amazons. R. Graham, Esq. [P.], 



b. Ad. sk. Para, Lower Amazons ( Wallace). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



B«fer also to P. notata, Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H. ii. p. 97 (Bolivia). 



