4. 0CHTH0D1JETA. 17 



b. Under tail-coverts rufous : 



I larger; throat like the belly 2. lugubris, p. 17. 



j smaller ; throat pale yellowish 3. signatus, p. 17. 



B. Above sinoky brown ; beneath rufous 4. fusco-rufus, p. 18. 



1. Ochthodiaeta fumigatus. 



Tvrannula fumigata, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1810, p. 71. 



Myiobius fumigatus, Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 249. 



Tyrannus boissoneaui, Bp. Consp. i. p. 191. 



Ochthoeca fumigata, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 554, 1860, p. 67 



(Ecuador), 1871, p. 749. 

 Ochthodiffita fumigata, Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. ii. p. 48 ; Scl. et 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 511 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 42 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 532, 1880, p. 202 (N. Peru) ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 188 ; Berl. et 



Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 294 (W. Ecuador). 



Above and beneath nearly uniform dark smoky brown, slightly 

 paler and with indications of darker striations on the throat ; 

 wings and tail blackish ; wing-coverts, secondaries, and outer 

 rectrices slightly edged with pale brown ; whole basal portion of 

 the inner webs of the wing-feathery and under wing-coverts bright 

 rufous-chestnut; bill and feet black t whole length 7*5 inches, wing 

 4*3, tail 3 - 4. Female similar. 



Hab. Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. <S ad. sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia {Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. h. Ad. sk. Chiquinda, Ecuador (Villagomez). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 i. Ad. sk. Matos, Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



j. cJ ad. sk. Chillanes, Ecuador. L. Fraser [C.]. 



2. Ochthodiaeta lugubris. 



Ochthoeca fumigata, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 781. 

 Ochthodiaeta lugubris, Berl. Ibis, 1883, p. 492. 



Similar to the preceding, but with the under tail-coverts pale 

 rufous. 



Hab. Andes of Merida, Venezuela. 



This is scarcely more than a local form of O. fumigatus, but 

 the slight difference appears to bo constant in all the specimens 

 examined. 



a. $ ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela (Goering). Sclater Coll. 



b. cj ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela (Goering). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Ochthodiaeta signatus. 



Ochthodiaeta signatus, Tacz. P.Z.S. 1874, pp. 501, 532; id. Orn. 

 Per. ii. p. 189. 



Similar to O. fumigatus, but much smaller, rather more olive on 

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