67. EMPIDOCHANES. 217 



c. Ad. sk. Santa Catarina, Brazil Sclater Coll. 



( Rogers). 



d. Ad. sk. Sauta Catarina, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Rogers). 



e. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. S. America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Empidochanes arenaceus. 

 Empidockanes olivus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 228 ; Sol. et Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 51. 

 Ochthoeca arenacea, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 20. 

 Empidockanes arenaceus, Scl. Ibis, 1887, p. 66. 

 Empidockanes vireoninus, Rick/to. Pois, 1886, p. 461. 

 Tyranuula trailli, Jard. Ann. N. H. xx. p. 330 (1817) (Tobago). 



Above brown; line in front of the eyes and indistinct super- 

 ciliaries whitish ; wings and tail dark cinereous brown ; tips of 

 both series of wing-coverts, forming two transverse bands, and 

 outer margins of secondaries pale ochraceous : beneath pale ashy 

 brown, lighter on the throat; belly pale yellowish white; under 

 wing-coverts white ; inner margins of wing-feathers pale ochra- 

 ceous ; bill dark horn-colour; feet brown : whole length 5*5 inches, 

 wing 2-7, tail 2*7. Female similar. 



Hob. Colombia, Venezuela, and Amazonia. 



This form differs from the preceding in its much paler colouring 

 above, there being much less rufous tint in the brown. There is 

 also less of the yellowish tinge on the belly. But the two species 

 are undoubtedly very closely allied, and in some cases hardly to be 

 distinguished. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of Ochthoeca arenacea.) 



b. $ ad. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Wliitehj). 

 e. Ad. sk. Mexiana, Lower Amazons ( Wal- Sclater Coll. 



lace). 



d. $ ad. sk. Mexiana, Lower Amazons (Wal- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lace). 



e. $ ad. sk. S. Esteban, Venezuela (Goering). Sclater Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Tobago (Kirk). Sclater Coll. 

 g-h. Ad. sk. Tobago (Kirk). Jardine Coll. 

 1. Ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



4. Einpidochanes poecilurus. 



P. Z. S. 1874, p. 538, et 1879, p. 235; id. Orn. Fir. ii. p. 314. 



Above cinereous, wings blackish ; tips of both scries of wing- 

 coverts and outer margins of external secondaries more or less 

 ochraceous : tail blackish, greater part of the inner webs of all the 

 rectrices bright rufous : beneath pale buffy rufous, breast and 

 flanks more or less overrun with cinereous, under wing-coverts and 



