36. CULICIVOKA. 97 



36. CULICIVORA. 



Type. 



Culicivora, Sw. Zool Journ. iii. p. 359 (1827) C. stenura. 



Hapalura, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 252 C. stenura. 



The peculiar form which Swainson made the type of his genus 

 Culicivora is restricted, so far as we know at present, to S.E. Brazil 

 and the adjoining districts. It is at once recognizable by its long 

 graduated tail, with the barbs of the rectrices very thin and much 

 narrowed. The sandy plumage, which it shares with Habrura, is 

 only met with in tbese two types of the family Tyrannidce. 



1. Culicivora stenura. 



Muscicapa stenura, Temm. PL Col. 167. fig. 3. 



Hapalura stenura, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 252; Burm. 



Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 494. 

 Culicivora stenura, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 53 ; Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. p. 103 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 605 ; Scl. et Huds. Arg. Orn. 



i. p. 139. 

 Muscicapa hapalura, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Above sandy brown, striated with black ; head nearly black, lores 

 and superciliaries white : wings and tail blackish with slight brownish 

 edgings : beneath pale sandy buff, more brownish on the sides of the 

 neck and flanks ; bill and feet black : whole length 3'7 inches, wing 

 1*7 ; tail, ext. rectr. 1*3, med. 1*9. 



Nab. S.E. Brazil. 



I can only find 10 rectrices in the specimens of this species which 

 I have examined. They are long, thin, and rather stiffened. The 

 webs are much reduced in width in all the feathers. 



a. £ ad. sk. Curitiba, Brazil (Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



b. 3 ad. sk. Ytarar6, Brazil {Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



37. POGONOTRICCUS. 



Type. 



Pogonotriccus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 54 (1859). . P. eximius. 

 Eupsilostoma, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 68 P. eximius. 



Of this division, established by Cabanis and Heine for the Mus- 

 cicapa eximia of Temminck, I am able to recognize four nearly 

 allied species distributed over the forest-regions of South America. 

 As indicated by their generic name, they are remarkable in this 

 subfamily for the unusual development of the rictal bristles. The 

 tarsi are rather short, and the divisions of the scutes distinctly in- 

 dicated ; the tail is long, nearly equalling the wings. 



