228 TANAGEIDJ,. 



38. THLYPOPSIS. „ 



Type. 

 Thlypopsis, Cah. Mm. llvin. i. p. 138 (18ol) T. fulvescens. 



In TJiJi/popsis the bill is more slender and more elongated than in 

 Nemosia, and the general form comes very near to that of some of 

 the Mniotiltida; {BasUmterus) ; but the rictal bristles are shorter 

 and less conspicuous than in the last-named genus. 



The sexes are coloiired nearly alike. The area of the genus is 

 confined to South America from Venezuela and Colombia to Bolivia 

 and Brazil. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Abdomen pale, cinereous or fulvous. 

 a. Head orange-red ; throat yeUov?. 



I Flanks" fulvous 1. sordida, p. 228. 



1 Flanks cinereous 2. amazonum, p. 229. 



h. Head yellowish ; throat yellow 3. chrysopis, p. 229. 



c. Head bright rufous. 



) Abdomen cinerous 4. fulviceps, p. 229. 



"I Abdomen fulvous 5. inornata, p. 230. 



B. Abdomen more or less dark rufous. 



Breast and flanks dark rufous 6. ornata, p. 230. 



Breast rufous, flanks grey 7. pectoralis, p. 230. 



C. Abdomen yellow '. 8. rujiceps, p. 231. 



1. Thlypopsis sordida. 



Nemosia sordida, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. i. p. 28; d'Orh. Voy. 



p. 261, pi. 18. fig. 2; Gray, Gen. ii. p. 366; Bp. Consp. i. p. 236; 



Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 24; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 602 (BoUvia). 

 Nemosia fulvescens, Strickl. Ann. N. II. xiv. p. 420 ; Bp. Cons}}, i. 



p. 23(3 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 24 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 215 (part.) ; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 196 ; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 334 (Pernam- 



buco). 

 Thlypopsis fulvescens, Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 138; id. J.f. 0. 1866, 



p. 232. 

 Nemosia blanda, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 

 Nemosia fulviceps, Burm. St/st- Ueb. iii. p. 159. 

 Nemosia sordida, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 119; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 36; 



id. Cat. A. B. p. 88. 



Above cinereous ; head and neck orange-red, yellowish on the 

 front and sides of the head : below pale ochraceous, middle of belly 

 passing into white ; throat yellow ; under wing-coverts white ; bill 

 plumbeous ; feet cinereous : whole length 4-7 inches, wing 2-6, 

 tail 2'1. Female similar. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil and Bolivia. 



I can find no difference between Brazilian specimens of this species 

 and a Bolivian example obtained by Bridges. I have therefore 

 reunited T. fulvescens to T. sordida. But the Upper-Amazonian 

 bird {T. sordida of Cab., and oUm of Scl. and Salv.) seems to differ 



