43. MIONECTES. Ill 



43. MIONECTES. 



Type. 

 Mionectes, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, pt. i. p. 275 .... M. striaticollis. 

 Pipromorpha, Bp. (ex MS. Skiff.), Ann. d. Sc. Nat. Zool. 



vol. i. p. 134 (1854) M. oleagiueus. 



In this little group of two sections, both of which are widely 

 diffused over the tropical portions of the Neotropical Region, the 

 bill is much constricted, and the rictus very smooth, the setoe being 

 small and inconspicuous. The tarsi are short and feeble ; and the 

 divisions of the anterior scutella arc generally well apparent. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Abdomen yellowish. 



\ Head more or less cinereous 1. striaticollis, p. 111. 



) Head olive like the back 2. olivaceus, p. 112. 



B. Abdomen rufous. 



I Head olive 3. oleagineus, p. 112. 



j Head grey 4. riifiventris, p. 114. 



1. Mionectes striaticollis. 



Muscicapa striaticollis, a" Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 51. 

 Muscicapara striaticollis, a" Orb. Vqy., Ois. p. 823, pi. 35. fig. 2. 

 Mionectes striaticollis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 187 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 213 ; 



Scl. et Salt: P. Z. S. 1864, p. 358, 1868, p. 628, 1879, pp. 512, 613 ; 



iid. Nomencl. p. 47 ; Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 328 ; Tacz. 



P.Z.S. 1874, p. 535, 1879, p. 233, et 1882, p. 19; id. Om. 



Per. ii. p. 244 ; Berl. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 296, et 1885, pp. 90, 



115, 120. 

 Mionectes poliocepbalus, Tsch. Faun. Per., Orn. p. 148, pi. 10. fig. 1. 



Above olive-green : wings and tail ashy brown, edged with olive ; 

 head grey : beneath yellowish, striated with dark green ; throat dark 

 cinereous, with white striations ; middle of belly yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts pale yellowish ; inner margins of wing-feathers pale 

 rufous ; bill and feet brown : whole length 5 inches, wing 2 - 9, tail 

 23. Female similar. 



Hah. Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. 



