SURINAM ANTWREN 



7. Myrmotherula surinamensis (Gmelin) 



Surinam Antwren 



Length 93 mm. (3.65 in.); tail 26 mm. i.oo 

 in.). 



Male. Black above, the top of the head, 

 scapulars and the back finely streaked with 

 white, the rump plain gray; two distinct white 

 wing bands; below white streaked with black. 



Female. Head and hindneck rufous tawny 

 streaked with black; back and rump as in male; 

 middle and greater wing coverts tipped with 

 white; under parts whitish buff tinged with 

 tawny. 



A small species without a crest, warbler-like 

 in habits. Noted at Barro Colorado Island. 

 Jewel found it in a clearing along the bank of 

 the Rio Siri. 



8. Myrmotherula fulviventris (Lawrence) 



Lawrence's Antwren 



Myrmopagis fulviventris RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. 

 Amer., V, p. 73, 1911; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., 1918, p. 261. 



Length 98 mm. (3.80 in.); tail 34 mm. (1.30 

 in.) 



Male. Olive above, most of the wing coverts 

 tipped with a buff spot; chin and throat black 

 conspicuously spotted with white; remainder of 

 under parts buffy olive. 



Female. Similar to male but throat buffy, 

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