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and also saw it near Macuca and Garanhuns, so that it is probably widely 

 distributed. 



The irides (in both sexes) are pale yellowish white ; the beak and 

 legs are leaden grey. 



09. THAMISTOPHILTJS TORQUATUS. 



I only once got a specimen of this bird, which I shot near Quipapa ; 

 afterwards I obtained one from my friend Herr Miiller, who had shot it 

 near Recife, where also I believe I saw it once or twice. The bird I 

 shot at Quipapa attracted my attention by its remarkable cat-like miauling 

 cry, very different from that of T. palliatus. 



The irides are chestnut-brown. 



70. HERPSILOCHMUS PILEATUS. 



This little bird was rather abundant near Garanhuns, frequenting the 

 thick scrub, and flying actively about, in small parties of three or four, 

 amongst the tops of the bushes, like a Parus or Polioptila. I did not 

 meet with it elsewhere. 



71. HERPSILOCHMTJS, sp. inc. 



I shot a single specimen of a second species of the genus near Macuca, 

 but, having been preserved in spirit, it is not in sufficiently good order 

 to describe or identify. Mr. Sclater, who thinks it is probably new, has Ibis, 1881, 

 kindly given me the subjoined note on it : p ' 



" A single example of a species allied to H. pileatus of Pelzeln, but 

 probably distinct, having the head striated with white." 



72. EORMICIYORA GRISEA. 



I obtained specimens of this bird at Parahyba and Quipapa, and also 

 believe that I saw it in the second-growth woods outside Eecife, but it 

 was nowhere common. 



Eyes brown ; beak black ; feet dark grey, the nails blacker. 



73. FORMICIYORA RUFATRA. 



I got this bird in the bush-covered country around Parahyba, but did 

 not afterwards meet with it. 



Irides brown ; legs lead-coloured. 



74. APHANTOCHROA CIRROCHLORIS. 



I shot a single specimen of this Hummer out of a large tree, in which 

 it was perched high above the ground, in a patch of forest covering the 

 top of a hill near Macuca. 



