1162 MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON THE 



118. Myrmotherula fulviventeis viduata Hart. 

 \_Myrmotherula fidviventris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y. 



vii. p. 468 (1862.— Panama).] 



Myrmoiherxda viduata Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. p. 492 (1898. — 

 Cachabi, N.W. Ecnador ; 5 ). 



21. fidviventris viduata idem, 1. c. ix, p. 612 (crit.). 



31. ornata ? Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Pliilad. 1860, p. 191 

 (Rio Truando). 



" M. ? " Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 294 (Esmeraldas, N.W. 



Ecuadoi-). 



M. fulviventris (nee Lawrence) Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 525 (Remedios, Antioquia) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 331 

 (Naranjo, near Bucaramanga) ; Salvador! & Festa, Boll. Mvis. 

 Zool. Torino, xiv. no. 362, 1899, p. 29 (Peripa, W. Ecuador). 



tail 34; 



tail 38; 



tail 38; 



" Iris dark broAvn, feet blackish, bill black, mandible grey." 

 These specimens as well as several Bogota skins agree perfectly 

 with a series from W, Ecuadoi-, inchxding the type, kindly for- 

 warded by Dr. Hartert from the Tring Museum. M. f. viduata 

 differs from typical fulviventris in having the upper parts 

 decidedly more brownish or rufescent brown, this being especially 

 noticeable on the crown and upper tail-coverts ; the edges to the 

 quills and rectrices are also more i-eddish, and the females have 

 the belly of a darker fulvous colour. M. f. fulviventris is known 

 to me fi'om seven skins from Nicaragua (Rio Grande) and 

 Eastern Costa Rica (Carrillo, Reventazon, Matina R.), but I have 

 not yet seen any from the type locality. 



M. f. viduata apparently ranges all over the Pacific lowlands, 

 up to about 2000 feet altitude, from the Rio Truando in the 

 north to the neighbourhood of Guayaquil, S.W. Ecuador, in 

 the south. There is an adult male in the Tring Museum from 

 Ana Maria (not far from Guayaquil), procured by Herr G. von 

 Buchwald in December 1905. 



119. Myrmotherula axillaris me^lna Scl. 

 \Myrmothera axillaris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. xii. p. 113 (1817. — 



" Guyane "). 



Fortnicivora melcena Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 130 (Oct. 1857. — 

 Bogota). 



Myrniotherida melcena Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 525 

 (Neche, Antioquia); Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 1860, 

 p. 191 (R. Truando). 



No. 2416. (? ad. Novita: 19.xii.08.— Wing 53; tail 35.; 

 bill 14 mm. 



" Iris brown, feet and bill black." 



Agreeing with Bogota skins. 



