330 CONOPOPHAGID^. 



1. CONOPOPHAGA*. 



Type. 



Conopophaga, Vieill. Analyse, p. 39 (181G) C. aurita. 



The species of ConopopJiaija are still very imperfectly known, and 

 a fuller scries of these difficult forms is requisite before we can 

 understand the variations of their plumages, At present I can 

 make out provisionally eight or nine species, which arc spread over 

 the South-American continent from Colombia to Southern Brazil, 

 but do not appear to be found north of Panama. 



Key to the Species. 



A. With a postocular stripe or pencil of white 



feathers. 



a. Throat (of male) black. 



( Smaller: breast chestnut 1. aurita, ]). 3.30. 



j Larger : breast grey 2. melanogastm, p. 331. 



b. Throat (of male) grey. 

 a'. Head brown. 



I Wing-coverts spotted 3. peruviana, p. 331. 



I Wing-coverts uniform 4. ardesiaca, p. 332. 



h'. Head chestnut 5. castaneiceps, p. 332. 



c. Throat and breast fulvous 0. lineata, p. 333. 



d. Throat white ; breast fulvous 7. dorsalis, p. 333. 



B. Without a postocular stripe ; sides of head 



black ; cap chestnut. 



( Front chestnut 8. meUmops, p. 334. 



Front black 9. nigrogemjs, p. 334. 



1. Conopophaga aurita. 



Fourmillier a oreilles blanches de Cayenne, Datih. PI. E/il. 822. 



Turdus auritus, Gm. S. N. p. 827. 



Pipra leucotis, G??i. S. N. i. p. 1003. 



Conopophaga leucotis, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 203, pi. 127 ; Menetr. 



Mem. Ac. Sc. St. Petersh. s6r. vi. {Sci. Nat.) i. p. 532 (183oj. 

 Conopophaga aurita, Bp. Consp. i. p. 203; Scl. P. Z. >S. 1854, p. 113 



(Ecuador), et 1858, p. 285 (Cayenne) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 193; Sol. 



et Salv. Nomenel. p. 41. 



Above brown ; head dark chestnut ; lores and sides of head black ; 

 long postocular stripe white ; feathers of interscapulium slightly 

 edged with blackish ; wings and tail like the back : beneath, throat 

 black, broad breast-band chestnut ; abdomen ashy brown, growing 

 whitish in the middle : bill blackish ; feet brown : whole length 

 4 inches, wing 2-6, tail 1'2. 



Hah. Cayenne and Ecuador. 



* Eefer also to C. rushyi, Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H. ii. p. !16 (Bolivia). 



