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secondaries they occupy the end of the outer web, being in the first 
six nearest the primaries rather small, in the three outer larger and 
squarer in form. The upper tail-coverts are much produced, and 
are conspicuously terminated with oval white spots. The tail- 
feathers are ended only with spots, which are larger on the outer 
rectrices. 
3. HypocNeMIS MELANOL&MA, Sclater. (Pl. LXXII. fig. 2.) 
Cinereus, subtus valde dilutior ; interscapularibus basi niveis ; 
loris et oculorum ambitu cum cervice laterali et gutture toto 
nigris ; linea superciliari indistincte albida; teetricibus alarum 
nigris, fascia terminali alba; remigibus et rectricibus fuscis, 
externe cinereis ; rostro nigro, pedibus pallidis. 
Long. tota 5:0; alee 2°5; caude 1°6. 
Hab. In Peruvia, Chamicurros. 
This species seems nearly allied in form to the bird named Hypo- 
enemis pecilonota by Dr. Cabanis (Orn. Not. in Wiegm. Archiv, f. 
Nat. 1847. p. 213), and I have therefore placed it temporarily in 
the same genus. My specimen comes, like those of the preceding 
species, from MM. Verreaux’s Peruvian collection; and Mr. Gould 
has one example marked “male, irides red,’ from Chamicurros, 
which agrees with mine. From the same Peruvian collection I have 
also Hypocnemis pecilonota (Cab.) and H. cantator (Bodd.), the 
type of the genus, or a species hardly to be distinguished there- 
from. 
4. Hypocnemis MELANosTICTA, Sclater. (Pl. LXXIII.) 
& Ex cinereo olivascens ; interscapularibus basi niveis ; tectricibus 
alarum nigris, albo anguste terminatis ; loris et regione auriculari 
nigris ; subtus cinereus, gutture toto et ventre medio albis ; punc- 
tis paucis rotundis in summo pectore nigris ; rostro nigro, pedibus 
pallidis. 
? Supra rufescenti-olivacea, alarum tectricum marginibus et abdo- 
mine toto pallide ochraceis ; gutture, sicut in mari, albo; mandi- 
bula inferiore, nisi apice, alba. 
Long. tota 5°0; alee 2°5; caude 1°6. 
Hab. In Peruvia, Chamicurros. 
The Peruvian collection of the MM. Verreaux contained several 
examples of this prettily marked Ant-Thrush, and Mr. Gould has 
also ¢ and ? from Chamicurros. Both sexes show the white blotch 
at the base of the interscapularies. In form they nearly resemble 
H. melanolema and pecilonota. Below the white throat, both in 
male and female, are eight or ten round blackish spots, forming a 
sort of collar, which renders this species easily recognizable. 
5. Formicrvora caupatTa, Sclater. (Pl. LXXIV.) 
3 Supra niger albo-striatus ; nucha nigra ; dorso postico ferrugineo ; 
alis caudaque nigris; tectricibus alarum albo, remigibus autem 
primariis et secondariis rufo limbatis; rectricum macula terminali 
alba ; subtus albus, sparsius nigro-striatus ; ventre crissoque clare 
ferrugineis. 
