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6. MECOCERCULUS. Type# 



Mecocerculus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 113 M. setophagoides. 



Bill and foot of Mecocerculus leucophrys. 



This little group is closely allied to Ochthceca, but distinguished by 

 its more compressed bill and longer tail. Like Ochthceca, it is peculiar 

 to the higher Andes. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Throat white. 



a. Tail uniform. 

 a'. Head olive. 



I Rump like the back 1. leucophrys, p. 2/ . 



) Rump pale fulvous 2. uropygialis, p. 28. 



b'. Head grey 3. stictopterus, p. 28. 



b. Tail partly white : 



I secondaries edged with rufous 4. calopterus, p. 29. 



( secondaries edged with olive 5. pcecilocercus, p. 29. 



B. Throat yellow 6. consobrinus, p. 30. 



1. Mecocerculus leucophrys. 



Muscicapa leucophrys, a" Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av.i. p. 53. 

 Muscicapara leucophrys, d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 327. 

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

 Ochthoe'ca leucophrys, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 28, et 1871, p. 1 



Cub. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 48. 

 Tyrannula setophagoides, Bp. Act. Scienz. Ital. Mediol. p. 405; 



'Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1855, p. 149. 

 Myiarchus setophagoides, Pp. Consp. i. p. 188. 



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Ochthceca setophagoides, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 48 ; Scl. et 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 18(58, p. 170 (Venezuela), 1870, p. 781, et 1879, p. 611 

 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 42 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 331 (Colom- 

 bia) ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 291 (Brit. Guiana). 



Mecocerculus setophagoides, Berl. J.f. O. 1884, p. 297. 



Above olive-brown, darker on the head, slight superciliaries 

 white ; wings blackish ; broad ends of two rows of coverts (forming 

 two bands) and outer edges of secondaries yellowish white ; tail 



