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Stay there I saw only two adults. I met with it both along the shore and 

 a short distance inland, where I found it perching on the barberry bushes. 

 It was not easy to approach and was very restless in its movements." 

 (Orn. Jour. Voy. round World, Ibis, Jan. 1904, pp. 42-43.) 



Mr. Peters found it a very common summer resident in western Rio 

 Negro, arriving at Huanuluan August 28. 



Genus MYIOSYMPOTES Reichenbach. 



Type. 

 Myiosympotes Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. t. Ixv. (1850) . . H. flaviventris. 

 Geographical Range. — South America, south to central Patagonia and 

 Chile. 



Myiosympotes flaviventris (d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye). 



Alectnnts fiaviventris d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Syn. Av. p. 55 (1836) 



(Corrientes, Argentina). 

 Arnndinicola citreola Landbeck, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1863, p. 58, pi. i. 



Description. — Male, 51230, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Chile. Total length, 

 4.50 inches; wing, 1.90; culmen, .40; tail, 1.82; tarsus, .74. Above 

 olive brown, tinged with chestnut on the crown, sides of face dusky, wings 

 and tail dull brown edged with olive, entire under parts yellow, bill and 

 feet blackish. 



Geographical Range. — Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile to Rio 

 Negro and central Patagonia. 



This species was not found by the Princeton Expedition. 



Genus STIGMATURA Sclater and Salvin. 



Type. 



Stigmatura Scl. et Sal v. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 188 . . . . S. bndytoides. 

 Geographical Range. — South America; Upper Amazonia, Bolivia, Ar- 

 gentina and Patagonia. 



Stigmatura budytoides flavocinerea (Burmeister). 



Phylloscartes flavo-cinerea Burmeister, Rio La Plata, ii. p. 455 (1861) 



(Mendoza). 



Description. — Adult male, 284435, Biol. Survey Colin., U. S. Dept. of 



Agriculture, Victorica, Pampa, Argentina, December 27, 1920, Alexander 



Wetmore. Total length, 5.50 inches ; wing, 2.35 ; culmen, .32 ; tail, 2.92; 



