2'J« Mr. O. Salviu on Birds 



195. EmPIDOCHANES PtEClLUKUS ? 



Ei/fpidochanes pcecilurus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 112. 



Roraima (5000 ft.) . 



We have skins attributed to this species from Peru and 

 Northern Colombia. Both have nearly the whole of the 

 inner web of the outer rectrices fulvous. Two of Mr. 

 AVhitely's specimens have also this character, but to a less 

 extent. Two others have these rectrices nearly uniform 

 fuscous. The latter are marked male, the former female ; so 

 the question arises whether the colour of the rectrices is a 

 sexual character ! Our other specimens do not help us in 

 this matter, the sex not being recorded, and on the whole we 

 prefer to leave the question of the specific position of these 

 Guiana birds in abeyance for the present. 



196. CONTOPUS ARDESIACUS. 



Tyrannula ardesiaca, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 80. 

 Myiochanes ardesiacus, Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 232. 

 Eoraima (5000-6000 ft.). 



197. Myiarchus tyrannulus. 



Musclcapa iyrannulus, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. 

 p. 169. 



Myiarchm tyrannulus , Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1872, p. 71. 



Myiarchus ferooc (Gm.), Cab. in Schomb. Guiana, iii. 

 p. 700. 



Bartica Grove, Camacusa. 



198. Myiarchus PHiEONOTus. 



Myiarchus phceonotus, Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1883, p. 207. 

 Roraima (3500 ft.) . 



199. Myiarchus nigriceps. 



Myiarchus nigriceps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 68; Cat. Am. 

 B. p. 234. 



Camacusa, Merurae Mountains, Roraima (3500 ft.). 



200. Empidoxomus varius. 



Muscicapa vuria, Vicill. N. Diet, d^liist. N. xxi. p. 458. 

 Empidononius rarias; Scl. Cat. Am. R. p. 234. 



