1878.] COLLECTED BY PROF. STEERE IN SOUTH AMERICA. 139 



Although so abnormal in colour, we cannot arrange this bird, of 

 which Prof. Steere unfortunately obtained but a single specimen, as 

 otherwise than a typical Myiarchus. The wings are rather short, 

 the third, fourth, and fifth primaries being nearly equal and longest. 

 The wing-end, embracing the first five or six primaries, is black, as 

 are the centre portions of the other remiges ; but the latter are bor- 

 dered above and below with rufous. In the tail the black colour is 

 confined to the inner webs of the three middle pairs of rectrices, the 

 two outer pairs being wholly rufous, and the next pair having only a 

 slight trace of the black patch. 



10. Mach^eropterus pyrocephalus, Sclater. 

 Machceropterus pyrocephalus, Sclater, Ibis, 1862, p. 176. 



Of this beautiful Manikin two examples were procured by Prof. 

 Steere — one at Rioja, and the other at Moyobamba. 



11. Attila torridtjs, Sclater. 



Altila torridus, Sclater, P. Z. S. I860, p. 280. 



A single skin from Santa Rosa agrees with Sclater's types of his 

 A. torridus, except in being rather brighter below and in being 

 rather shorter in the wing. We do not think it distinguishable. 



12. Furnarius pileatus, sp. n. 



Suprd castaneus, superciliis albis; pileo obscure brunneo; subtiis 

 albus, lateraliter ochraceo perfusus ; remigibus nigris rufo 

 bifasciatis ; rectricibus castaneis, macula in pogonio interiore 

 nigra, prceditis ; rostro corneo, mandibuld inferiore ad basin 

 albicante ; pedibus nigris : long, tota 6 - 8, alee 3 - 5, caudce 24, 

 tarsi 11. 

 Hab. Santarem, Amazons (Steere). 



Obs. F. figulo affinis, sed pileo brunneo ed pedibus majoribus 

 diversus. 



A single skin of a Furnarius obtained at Santarem, on the south 

 bank of the Amazons, seems to be referable to a representative 

 form of F.fgulus, of S.E. Brazil, distinguishable by its dark brown 

 cap. In F. figulus the head is of exactly the same colour as the 

 back. * 



13. Thamnophilus simplex, Sclater. 



Thamnophilus simplex, Sclater, Ibis, 1873, p. 387. 



A single skin obtained at Vigia exactly agrees with Sclater's type 

 of this little-known species, now in his collection. It is marked 

 " male: eyes red." 



14. STEATORNIS CAR1PENSIS. 



A skin of this bird in Prof. Steele's collection is labelled as having 

 been obtained at Caxamarca, in the Peruvian Andes. This, so far as 

 we know, is much further south than any previously recorded locality 



