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Mi/niiolhcra telemn N'ikill.. Euc. Mf'-tli., 1«23, G83. 

 Myioinrdna tclenia Max., Beitr., iii, i)t. 2, 1831, 103S.— Mi':xi':rii., Mem. A<'. St. Peters. 



scT. vi (Sc. Nat.), 1835, HiG. 

 Mijiolliera tcfrma Boxap., Coiisp. i, 1850, 205 (Cayeiuic : north Brazil). — BuKM., Syst 

 Uel). Ill, 1S56, 4(3. 

 Mynnolhcra fasciccqnllu YiKiLU., N. D., xii, 1817, 112; Eiic. M.'th., 1823, (581. 

 Myioihern rujiccps Srix, Av. Bras., i, 182.3, 72, pi. 72, fig. 1. 



Formicarlus ntjkrps Pklz. Orn. Bras., ii, 1868, 90, 168 (Waldc <!(>.( 'lavari. >[atto. 

 Grosso; Bodeu; Borba; Pant). 



Hab. — Southeastern Brazil (Sao Paulo; Baliia). 



Sp. Char. — Entire i)ileuui and hind neck bright rufous-tawny (paler 

 laterally, often clouded with dusky medially); sides of liead (inchid- 

 ing lores and superciliary region), chin, throat, and chest black, 

 changing gradually into sooty grayish brown or dull sooty slate on 

 under parts of the body; upi)er i)arts olivaceous, the tail blackish 

 terminally, the outer web of external feather of alula and basal portiim 

 of remiges and under wing coverts buff" or pale tawny. 



Adult male (Xo. 32S71, TJ. S. Nat. Mus., "Brazil"; P]. Verreaux) :— Ti- 

 leum and hind neck russet-tawny, paler (light ochraceous) laterally, 

 the median portion clouded with darker by the showing through of 

 the dusky bases of the feathers; rest of U])per parts plain grayish 

 olive; the outer webs of the remiges inclining to Pnmt's brown, and 

 the terminal half (api)roximately) of the tail blackish brown; outer web 

 of exterior feather of alula ochraceous-buff"; primary coverts i)lain 

 blackish brown ; under wing coverts buff, tipped with brownish black, 

 the larger (more posterior) feathers almost wholly of the latter color; 

 inner webs of remiges ochra::eous-bulf for basal third or more. Sides 

 of head (including lores and superciliary region), sides of neck, chin, 

 throat, and chest black; remaining under i)arts dull brownish gray, 

 tinged with olive laterally, the \entral region suffused with grayish 

 white. Bill, black; legs and feet, brownish. Total length (skin), 7.10; 

 wing, 3,20; tail, 2.20; exposed culmen, 0.02; tarsus, 1.18; middle 

 toe, 0.72. 



''Lores and throat varied with whitish." (Sclater.) 



The series which I have been able to examine of this si^ecies is very 

 unsatisfactory. There are only four specimens, all adults, but only 

 one of them sexed. 



An example in the National Museum collection, supposed to be from 

 Santa Catarina, Brazil (No. 24049, Lemuel Wells, coll.), is essentially 

 like the one described above, but has the colors rather deeper through- 

 out, the rusty color of pileum, etc., richer, the upper parts more de- 

 cidedly olive, and the lateral under parts much more (divaceous. 

 Wing, 3.30; tail, 2.20; tarsus, 1.18: middle toe, 0.75. 



Two specimens from Bahia in the collecticm of the American ^lu- 

 seum of Natural History are similar in coh)r to the example described 

 above, except that the <*olor of tlie pileum is much brighter and more 

 uniform — rich rufous-tawny, passing into ochraceous along the edges — 



