234 HELIOKNITHrD^. 



Plotus surinamensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 581 (1788). 



Heliomis fulicarius, Bonn. Enc. Mith. i. p. 65 (1790) ; JReichmb. 



Handb., Fulic. tab. cxIt. fiffs. 1139-40 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 181 



(1854). 

 Dedales, Azara, Ajmnt. iii. p. 468 (1802). 

 Podoa surinamensis, llliqer, Prodr. p. 267 (1811) ; Nemvied, Beitr. 



Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 823 (1832) : Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 28 (1847) ; 



Cab. in Schomb. Rets. Guiati. iii. p. 765 (1848) ; Licht. Nomencl. 



p. 104 (1854) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 391 (1855). 

 Heliomis surinamensis, Jard. ed. Wilson''s Amer. Orn. iii. p. 204 



(1832) ; Graij, List Gralla>. Brit. Mus. p. 124 (1844). 

 Heliomis fulica. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 634 (1844); Scl. 8r Salv. Ibis, 



1859, p. 234 (Santana Mixtan) ; Lam: Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 



p. 302 (1861 : Panama) ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 373 



(Panama) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 200 (Upper Ucajali) ; Leot. Ois. 



Trinid. p. 531 (1866) ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 764, 979 



(Pebas) ; ScJd. Mus. Pays-Bas, Urinatores, p 48 (1867 : Cayenne) ; 



Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 18G8, p. 469 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 318 (1871 : 



E. Ai'a^ay, P. Rande, Matogrosso, E. Curicuriare, Forte do Rio 



Branco) ; Scl. 8r Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 309 (Chyavetas) ; iid. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 140 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 546 



(Antioquia) ; Ridr/w. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 237 (1880) ; 



Zeledon, Proc. U.S. Nat. 'Mus. viii. p. 114 (1886: Costa Rica) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 177 (Merum^ Mts.) ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 



N H. ii. p. 107 (1889 : Lower Beni, Bolivia). 

 Heliomis fulicaria, Reichenb. Handb. Spec. Orn. p. xxi (1852). 



Adult female. General colour above uniform olive-brown, becom- 

 ing clearer brown on the lower back and gradually inclining to 

 ruddy brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills uniform 

 brown, washed with olive externally, the inner secondaries like the 

 back ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with white at their ends ; 

 crown of head glossy blue-black, extending a little way on tho hind 

 neck ; lower hind neck olive like the back ; lores white, with a 

 small supraloral mark of brown, followed by a white superciliary 

 streak of white ; feathers round the eye white ; a black spot at the 

 gape ; ear-coverts and hinder cheeks light chestnut or bay ; above 

 the ear-coverts a band of blue-black running from behind the eye 

 and joining the greenish black of the nape ; behind the ear-coverts 

 a band of white, traversing the sides of the neck and separating the 

 black of the hind head and neck from another band of black which 

 commences behind the rufous ear-coverts and skirts the white band 

 to the sides of the neck, where it slightly widens and unites on the 

 lower throat, so as to enclose the white of the throat and malar 

 region ; breast and abdomen white ; the fore neck and chest sandy 

 buff and separated from the black on the lower throat by a small 

 white patch ; sides of body olive-brown, more distinctly seen on the 

 flanks ; under tail-coverts brown, the long coverts tipped with white 

 like the tail-feathers ; under wing-coverts and asillaries brown, 

 with white tips to many of the median series ; quills uniform brown 

 below: " bill bright red with a slight black mark on the culmen 

 and behind the nostrils, under mandible ■whitish with a whitish- 



