278 CLASS AVES. 



Thamnophilus Alhonotatus, Spix, Braz. 27, 2 <f. 

 38.2. $. 



Lead-coloured ; wing and tail black ; wing-coverts white 

 fringed ; base of back feathers white ; tail white-tipt ; 

 grey under the eyes. Female, cinnamon-brown ; be- 

 neath fulvous ; quills re<l-margined ; tail yellow-tipt ; 

 body five, tail two inches long. Brazil. 



Thamnophilus Gularis. Spix, Braz. 41. 2. 



Above reddish ; beneath ashy ; throat black, white 

 speckled ; wings and tail, reddish ; wing-coverts black, 

 yellow tipt ; bill slender ; tail short ; body four inches, 

 tail one inch long. Brazil. 



Thamnophilus Melanoceps. Spix. 39. 1. 



Chestnut, head and neck black, tail rather short ; bill 

 rather strong ; base of the soft dorsal feathers ashy ; 

 crown subcrested ; legs yellowish ; body six and a half, 

 tail two and a half inches long. Brazils. 



Thamnophilus Leuconotus. Spix, Braz. 39. 2. 



Deep black ; nape with a white collar ; bill slender, ra- 

 ther long ; frontal-plumes linear ; bill black, feet red- 

 dish ; body six, tail twenty-three and a quarter inches 

 long ; perhaps the male of the former. Brazil. 



* * Outer tail-feathers short. 



Thamnophilus Griseus. Spix, Braz. 41. 1«^. 40, 1 $ . 

 Myothera Super ciliaris, Licht. ? 



Above brown ; beneath black ; bill slender ; eyebrows 

 white ; wing-coverts, and tail black, white-tipt ; wings 

 short, black, sides whitish ; female above chestnut ; eye- 

 streak, and beneath white ; bill, sides of neck, wing and 

 tail white-tipt ; body four and a half, tail two inches 

 lono;. Brazil. 



