284 CLASS AVES. 



the wing covers snowy white ; length seven inches. 

 Brazil. 



Black Ant- Thrush, Drymophila Atra, Swain. 



Black, base and edge of the interscapular feathers 

 white ; length seven inches. 



Drymophila Variegata, Vigors. Zool. Jour. I. 559. 



Above, olive-brown : head black, white-striped ; eye- 

 brows white ; wings and tail-feathers black, white-tipt ; 

 breast, belly, and rump, red ; length five inches. 



Drymophila Velata, Temm. PL Col. 334 



Blue-black ; face, cheeks, and forehead black ; throat 

 chestnut ; length seven inches. Timor. 



Others of a small size peculiar to America, which 

 have short, rounded wings, graduated tail, and moderate 

 and slender tarsi, have been called Formicivora by 

 Mr. Swainson. 



White-spotted Ant-Wren, Formicivora Maculata, 

 Swainson. 



Above black, with many white spots ; beneath ashy- 

 white, varied with black ; secondaries yellow-tipt ; tail 

 graduated ; length five inches, Brazil. 



Black-throated Ant- Wren, Formicivora Nigricollis, 

 Swainson. 



Above grayish, beneath black ; sides and eye-streak 

 snowy ; tail graduated, black, white-tipt ; length four 

 inches three quarters. Brazil. 



Short-tailed Ant- Wren, Formicivora Brevicauda, 

 Swain. 



Cinereous ; throat and breast black ; shoulders and 



