LAWRENCE'S ANTPITTA 



21. Hylopezus perspicillatus perspicillatus 



(Lawrence) 

 Lawrence's Antpitta 



Sexes alike. Length 125 mm. (4.95 in.); 

 tail 29 mm. (1.15 in.). Olive above, passing to 

 slate gray on top of head, the upper back streaked 

 with buff; a conspicuous eye ring of buff; cheeks 

 and lower parts white, the chest and breast 

 heavily streaked with black and tinged with 

 buff. 



A terrestrial antbird with a fairly short bill 

 and a very short tail. 



47. Family FURNARIID^E 

 The Ovenbirds and their allies 



A very large family of birds of the sub- 

 order Tyranni, closely related to the wood- 

 hewers (DendrocolaptidcB), and sometimes 

 considered as a subfamily (called Furnariince) 

 of the Dendrocolaptidce. The group is con- 

 fined to tropical America, exclusive of the 

 West Indies. They are mostly forest birds of 

 medium or rather small size and plain colora- 

 tion. Many of them resemble antbirds and 

 are more or less terrestrial in habits; others 

 creep on the trunks and branches of trees, but 

 do not use the tail as a support, and the tail 

 feathers are not modified as in the wood- 

 hewers. They get the name ' ' ovenbird ' ' from 

 the peculiar roofed-over nests of mud that 

 some of them construct. The Ovenbird of the 

 United States (Seiurus auricapillus) , is, how- 



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