316 FOKHICARIIDJE. 



g. S ad. sk. Talaitu II., Brit. GuiaBa Salviu-Godraan Coll. 



( Whitely). 



h. Pidl. sk. Quonga, Brit. Guiana Sahin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitely). 



i. Ad. sk. Pemambuco, Brazil {Forbes). Sclater Coll. 



j. Ad. sk. S. America. Baron Laugier's Coll. 



9. Grallaria imperator. 



Myioturdus rex, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 1027. 



Myiotbera grallaria, Licht. Douhl. p. 43. 



Grallaria imperator, Lnfr. Eev. Zool. 1842, p. oo.S ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 280 (S.E. Brazil) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 191 ; id. Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 44.3 (Brazil) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 204; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 91 ; Scl. 

 et Salv. Nomencl. p. 75 ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1873, p. 2.5.5 (S. Brazil). 



Colobatliris imperator, Cab. Wiefjm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 217. 



Myiotriclias imperatrix, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 6. 



Clrallaria rex, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 49. 



Above olive-brown, head cinereous, lores whitish ; front brown ; 

 feathers of head and back mostly with fulvous shafts and blackish 

 margins ; wings and tail brown : beneath pale fulvous, crossed by 

 numerous, narrow, ill-defined blackish bands ; throat blackish, 

 bordered on each side by a broad, white mystacal band, and beneath 

 by an irregular neck-collar of white-striped feathers : crissum and 

 under wing-coverts clear fulvoiis : whole length 8 inches, wing 4*9, 

 tan 1-7, tarsus 1-9. 



Bab. S.E. Brazil. 



Distinguished from G. varia by its large size, blacker throat, and 

 the continuous cross-bands on the under plumage. 



a. Ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Lord Stuart de Rothesay [P.]. 



d. Skeleton. Brazil. Eyton Coll. 



C. GRALLAEIiE tTNIFOBMES. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Under surface uniform cinereous. 

 Larger: head brown; nape chestnut. 10. nuchal{s,-p. 817. 

 Larger: head and nape chestnut .... 11. rti/iceps, ]>. S17. 

 Smaller : head and back rufous 12. rufo-cinerea, p. 317. 



B. Under sm-face not uniform cinereous. 



a. Throat and breast ochraceous 13. monticola, p. 317. 



b. Throat and breast pale yellow 14. Jlavotincta, p. 318. 



c. Throat white. 



1 Breast deep rufous 15. erythroleuca, p. 318. 



Breast pale rufous 16. erylhrotis, p. 319. 



Breast very pale cinereous 17. hypolcuca, p. .319. 



d. Throat and breast rufous. 



I Nape cinereous 18. yrisconucha, p. 319. 



I Nape and back rufous 19. rufula, p. 319. 



