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22. HYLOPHILUS PCECILOTIS, Max. 

 (BROWN-HEADED WOOD-BIRD.) 



Hylophilus poecilotis, Sol. et Salv. Nomencl p. 12 ; Scl Ibis, 1881, p. 300 ; 

 White, P. Z. 8. 1882, p. 595 (Misiones) ; Gadow, Cat. B. viii. p. 308. 



Description. Crown of head and nape rich rufous-brown ; all the rest of the 

 upper parts, including the entire tail and wing-coverts and the outer webs of 

 the remiges, rich olive-green; cheeks and upper throat whitish; ear-coverts 

 blackish, with white central streaks ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, inner mar- 

 gin of remiges, and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; rest of underparts dull 

 yellow, washed with olive on the breast and flanks, and inclining to pale 

 ochreous on the abdomen ; bill dark flesh-colour ; feet hazel : total length 

 4*5 inches, wing 2-2, tail 2*2. Female similar. 



Hob. Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Northern Argentina. 

 This South-Brazilian species was met with by White near San Javier, 

 in the province of Misiones, in June 1881. 



23. CYCLORHIS OCHROCEPHALA. 



(OCHRE-HEADED GREENLET-SHRIKE.) 

 [PLATE III. FIG. I.] 



Cyclorhis viridis, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 472 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 13 ; 

 Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 58 (Punta Lara) j White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 595 

 (Buenos Ayres) j Gadow, Cat. B. viii. p. 318. Cyclorhis ochrocephala, 

 Tsch. Arch.f. Nat. 1845, pt. i. p. 362; Berl et Jher. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1885, 

 p. 116. 



Description. Above olive-green; cap brownish ochraceous, more or less 

 rufescent ; front and superciliaries chestnut-red ; sides of head clear grey, beneath 

 pale buff ; breast and flanks yellow ; throat greyish white ; bill reddish grey, 

 feet grey ; eye reddish : total length 7*0 inches, wing 3'4, tail 2'8. Female 

 similar. 



Hob. Middle districts of Argentina. 



This species is not uncommon in the woods along the shores of the 

 Plata, and may be easily known to any person penetrating them by its 

 loud " cheerful soliloquy/' for that phrase of Mr. Barrows, the North- 

 American writer on birds, well describes the artless, light-hearted song 

 which it utters at intervals while it roams about in the deep foliage, 

 and which reminds one of the careless whistling of a boy, whistling 

 merely to express his gaiety, but without having any particular tune 

 in his mind. It is migratory, and extends its range south of Buenos 

 Ayres. 



