310 foemicariib.t:. 



Above brown ; cap black ; sides of bead and line ronnd nape 

 chestnut ; •wing-coverts with apical spots of pale fulvous : beneath 

 white, varied with undulating cross bars of black ; throat fringed 

 with chestnut-rufous ; flanks and crissum olivaceous brown : whole 

 length 7 inches, wing ',i-7, tail 1-2, tarsus 2. Female. Above like 

 male : beneath only very slightly banded ; throat whitish. 



Hab. Panama and Veragua. 



(I, b. c? $ ad. sk. ; c. Panama (McLeannan). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 S .jr. sk. 



d. (S ir. sk. Panama (McLcannmi). Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Panama (McLcaiiiiaii). 0. Salviu, Esq, [P.]. 

 /. (S ad. sk. Santa ¥6, Veragua (Am'). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Pittasoma zeledoni. 



Pittasoma michleri zeledoni, Ridgio. P. U. S. JV. M. vi. p. 414 

 (Costa Rica). 



Similar to P. michleri, but larger, and whole head (including 

 throat) entirely black, except a few touches of chestnut on the 

 auriculars {liidgrvay). 



Hah. Costa liica. 



Mr. Ridgway has sent me the type of this species for examination. 

 I think it is fairly separable. 



31. THAMNOCHARIS ^ 



Bill of Thamnocharis digiiissiyna. 



This curious monotype from Eastern Ecuador has the general 

 form of GrnlJaria, but the bill is shorter and thicker, and the 

 feathers of the flanks are enormously elongated. The tail is very 

 short and the tarsi long. 



1. Thamnocharis dignissima. 



Grallaria dignissima, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 160, pi. xvii. 

 (Ecuador). 



Above olive-brown, lores and sides of head fulvous ; wings 

 rufesccnt ; tail black ; rump-feathers much elongated, black with 

 white stripes : beneath, throat and neck bright ferruginous red ; 



* Thamnocharis, gen. nov. Odnvos, a bush, and xdpts, grace. 



