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25. EUSCARTHMUS *. 



Type. 

 Euscartlimus, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 945 (1831) E. nidipendulua. 



The group to which Cabanis and Heine have restricted Prince 

 Max. of Neuwied's term Euscarthmiisf embraces about fifteen species, 

 which are distributed over the wooded districts of South America 

 from Colombia to Bolivia and South Brazil. Their general 

 characters are much those of Todirostrum, but the bill is not so 

 much produced and is more spatulate. 



Kiy to the Species. 



A. Throat uniform, not striated. 



a. Throat white or whitish olivaceous. 

 a'. Crown olive like the back. 



a". Lores olive : 



I no white eye-ring 1. nidipendulus, p. 78. 



| a white eye-ring 2. zosterops, p. 79. 



b". Lores whitish 3. orbitatus, p. 79. 



c". Lores brownish 4. fumifrons, p. 79. 



b'. Crown brownish 5. pelzelni, p. 80. 



c'. Crown greyish : 



I lores whitish 6. marr/aritaceiventer, p. 80. 



) lores rufous 7. latirostris, p. 81. 



b. Throat more or less rufous. 

 a". Breast white : 



wings banded 8. gularis, p. 81. 



wings unhanded 9. rufiyularis, p. 82. 



e' . Breast rufous 10. russatus, p. 82. 



c. Throat black : 



I lores whitish 11. granadensis, p. 82. 



) lores rufous 12. pi/rrhops, p. 83. 



B. Throat striated. 



d. Under surface yellowish 13. striaticottis, p. 83. 



e. Under surface whitish : 

 i wing-bands yellowish 14. impiger, p. 84. 



wing-bands white 15. inurnatus, p. 84. 



1. Euscarthmus nidipendulus. 



Euscartlimus nidipendulus, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 950 ; Cab. et Hein. 

 Mas. Hein. ii. p. 50 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 208 ; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. 

 p. 102 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 45. 



Above uniform olive-green ; wings and tail blackish, edged with 

 olive : beneath dirty white, tinged with olive on the flanks ; under 

 wing-coverts yellowish ; bill pale hazel ; feet brown : whole length 

 3-5 inches, wing 1*7, tail 1-3. Female similar. 



/fab. S.E. Brazil. 



* See also E. limbatua, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 51 (Brazil) ; E. senex, 

 Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 101 (Borba) ; and E. mfipes (Cab.), Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. 

 p. 233 (Peru). 



t Cf. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 50. 



