20 TYRANNID.K. 



daries and of wing-coverts, forming two distinct bands, bright 

 rufous ; tail dark brown, with slight rufous edgings : below pale 

 yellowish, throat white, sides of breast brownish ; under wing- 

 coverta pale yellowish ; bill and feet black : whole length 5-4 inches, 

 wing 2 - ."), tail 2*5. Female similar. 



II iih. Ecuador and Peru. 



The strongly marked wings with rufous bands distinguish this 

 somowhat isolated species. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Sical, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c.Ad.sk. Imtac, Ecuador (Buckley). Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Ecuador (Buckley). Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Cutervo, Peru (Stolzmann). Sclater Coll. 



18. Ochthceca diadema. 



Myiobius diadema, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 289. 

 Muscicapa fuscicapilla, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 291. 

 Tyrannula diadema, Bp. Consp. i. p. 191 ; Sol, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 149. 

 Mecocerculus diadema, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 199. 



Ochthceca diadema, Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 750 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 

 p. 42 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 511. 



Above dark olive, blackish on the head and slightly rufescent on 

 the rump ; broad front and superciliary stripe yellow : wings and 

 tail blackish, slightly edged with olive : beneath bright olive, middle 

 of abdomen yellow ; under wing-coverts yellowish ; bill horn- 

 colour, feet brown : whole length 4*5 inches, wing 2-3, tail 2. 

 Female similar. 



Hub. Venezuela and Colombia. 



a. Ad.sk. Venezuela ( Goering). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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

 d. Ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



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



19. Ochthceca gratiosa. 



Mecocerculus gratiosus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 18G2, p. 113; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 360. 

 Ochthceca gratiosa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 750 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 42 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 232 (N. Peru) ; id, Orn. Per. ii. 



p. 199; Berl. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 295 (W. Ecuador). 



Similar to 0. diadema, but distinguishable by having the wing- 

 coverts edged with rufous, forming two cross bars, and the head 

 not quite so dark. 



Hob. Ecuador and Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Sclater Coll. (Type of 



the species.) 

 I), r. Ad. sk. Imtac, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 2 ad.sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia^a/mora). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



