1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQ.UIA. 525 



248. Dysithamnus semicinereus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 177. 

 Concordia. 



249. Dysithamnus unicolor, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 178. 



Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Stomach contained insects. 



Eggs (no. 44) creamy-white, sparsely spotted with small red 

 spots, and with a zone of large blotches of the same colour round 

 the middle: axis -98, diam. -67. (See Plate XLIII. fig. 9.) 



250. Myrmotherula surinamensis (Gm.) ; Scl. Cat. p. 179. 



Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris dark. Stomach contained insects. 



Eggs (no. 102) white: axis "8, diam. '65. 



"The nest is made of very fine roots and grass, and placed in low 

 bushes. It is a slight network hanging at the end of a thin bough, 

 very deep, and suspended between a fork, with the natural leaves of 

 the shrub or bush above to protect it from the rain. 



"The bird is a busy insect-hunter, but difficult to observe on 

 account of its small size and the nature of its haunts." — T. K. S. 



251. Myrmotherula fulviventris, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. 

 p. 468 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 356 ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 31 1 . 



Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 



252. Myrmotherula mel^ena (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 180. 



Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) 

 Iris dark. 



253. Formicivora caudata, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 182. 



Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) 

 Iris dark. 



254. Formicivora consobrina, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 183. 

 Pocune. (Mus. S.-G.) 



255. Ramphoc^nus rufiventris (Bp.) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. 

 p. 184. 



Sta. Elena. (Mus. P. L. S.) 



Iris red. Food, insects. Nests in low bushes. 



256. Ramphoclenus cinereiventris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 

 76, pi. lxxxvii. 



R. semitorquatus, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 469 (1862); 

 Salvin, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 145. 



Mus. P.L.S. 



A single example of this Ramphoccsnus without label is in the 

 eighth collection. The type of Sclater's species was procured near 

 Pasto ; and it is of interest to get a specimen from an intermediate 

 locality between that place and Panama, the locality of R. semitor- 



