DRYMOPHILA trifasciata. 
White-shouldered Ant Thrush. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
General plumage black; with the shoulder covers, interscapulars, 
and two bands on the wing covers, snowy. 
D. trifasciata. Swains. in Zool. Journ. 2, p.152. Gen. Zool. 13, 
2,179. Lesson. Manuel. 1, p. 196. 
In Mus. Paris. Nostro. 
We found this remarkable bird not uncommon in the thick 
Forests of Pitanga, near Bahia, during our travels in 
Brazil in the years 1815-7. Yet although the male birds 
were frequent, we were never fortunate enough to procure 
afemale. It has likewise been found in the southern pro- 
vinces of that empire, by Dr. Langsdorff. 
Its total length is about seven inches ; the whole plumage, 
with the exception of the snowy bands on the wings, is 
intensely black: the white spot on the back is only seen 
when the feathers are raised: the irides, in the live bird, 
are of a beautiful crimson. ‘ 
My friend M. Lesson, conjectures truly in thinking, 
that the birds placed by M. Temminck in our genus Dry- 
mophila, have no connexion or analogy with those species 
we have described, or with the characters on which we 
originally founded the group: they belong, in short, toa 
different family. 
