BICOLORED ANTBIRD 



common call is one of three minor notes, the first 

 long, the last two shorter. "It is very ventril- 

 oquil in character, but is one of the jungle 

 sounds which, once heard, is never forgotten" 

 (Griscom). 



17. Gymnopithys bicolor bicolor (Lawrence) 

 Bicolored Antbird 



Anoplops bicolor RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. Amer., 

 V, p. 132, 1911; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, 

 p. 261. 



Sexes alike. Length male, 138 mm. (5.40 

 in.) ; tail 48 mm. (1.90 in.); female, 125 mm. (4.95 

 in.); tail 47 mm. (1.85 in.). Above chestnut 

 brown, the forehead and sides of head slate gray ; 

 cheeks black; chin, throat, chest, breast and 

 abdomen, white in a somewhat restricted area, the 

 brown of the sides of neck, breast, the sides and 

 flanks encroaching on and forming an irregular 

 rather spotty outline on the white. Skin bare in 

 front oi, below, and behind the eye. 



A bird of more or less terrestrial habits. 



18. Hylophylax nsevioides naevioides 



(Lafresnaye) 

 Spotted Antbird 



Length 107 mm. (4.20 in.); tail 34 mm. 

 (1.30 in.). 



Male. Chestnut brown above, the top and 

 sides of head, and hindneck, gray; wing coverts 

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