1090 MR. C. E. IIELLMAYR OX THE 



" Iris dark red, feet light grey, maxilla black, mandible grey." 



This specimen agrees perfectly with others from Western 

 Ecuador. In addition to the one from San Javier in the Vienna 

 Museum mentioned by me, I. c, I have since examined four more 

 specimens from N.W. Ecuador in the Tring Museum ; one male 

 and two females also from S. Javier, and a male from Lita, 

 3000 ft. The wing measures 54-58, the tail 33-37 mm. 



T. leucopogon, thoiigh a very well-marked species, is nearest to 

 T. thoracicas Salv., of Costa Rica, which it closely resembles on 

 the upper parts, but difi'ers in the uniform dull ochreous brown 

 colour of the lower surface, with the exception of the chin and 

 upper throat which are white with slight blackish edgings, while 

 in T. thoracicus all the throat and breast feathers are white, 

 broadly margined with black laterally, 



T. leucopogon is known only from the coast-belt of Western 

 Ecuador and Colombia. 



8. Henicorhina inornata Hellm. 



Henicorhina ino7'nata Hellmayr, Journ. f. Ornith. li. p. 528 

 (1903.— Lita, N.W. Ecuador). 



No. 2135. 2 ad. Sipi, 30.ix.08.— Wing 55 ; tail 27| ; bill 

 16 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet and bill black." 



This bird is practically identical with the series, including the 

 type, from N.W. Ecuador, in the Munich Musevim. The upper 

 parts are of the same blight chestnut-i'ufous hue, the sides of the 

 breast deep smoky grey, the flanks dark rufous brown, and the 

 base of the lower mandible is clear yellowish white. II. inornata 

 is known only from Western Colombia and N.W^. Ecuador, where 

 it inhabits the forests of the humid lowlands as well as the lower 

 slopes, up to 3000 feet (Lita). 



[In the mountains bordering the Cauca Valley it is repre- 

 sented by another species which Mr. Bangs * has lately separated 

 as H. leucosticta eucharis, but which I cannot satisfactorily 

 distinguish from H. I. prostheleuca, of Chiriqui and Eastern Costa 

 Rica. Having befove me two fine specimens t, I can positively 

 state that it has nothing to do with H. leucosticta of Guiana and 

 East Venezuela. Mr. Bangs was appai-ently misled by a black- 

 crowned male, but this character is of very little importance in 

 view of the fact that specimens of prostheleuca in worn plumnge 

 often have the crown nearly uniform black, the brown tips to the 

 feathers having disappeared through abrasion. Moreover, the two 

 skins from Primavera have the feathers of the pileum broadly 

 tipped with umber- brown and the back etc. dull russet-brown, 

 exactly as in 2^'>'0stheleuca. While a larger series from Colombia 

 might ultimately reveal some slight differences, the evidence at 

 hand is not in favour of the southern form being separable.] 



* Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, xxiii. p. 74 (1910.— Pavas, W. Colombia, 4400 feet), 

 t (J $ fiom Primavera, Cauca R., 5100 feet, Eaap coll., Tring Museum. 



