MANIKUr. ANOPLOrS. 40 



Extralimital Range, Surinam {Penard), Cayenne, North Brazil, 

 Venezuela. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 685) that he 

 only met with this bird when he came in contact with a stretch of 

 land occupied by the unmeasurable " Wander-ants." It appears 

 to come with them and leave at the same time. He did not know 

 anything of its nidification, neither could the Indians give him 

 any information on the subject. 



Genus ANOPLOPS Cab. & Hein. 



Anoplops Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 9, 1859. Type A. riijigiila 

 (Bodd.). 



Fig. 2-i. — Anoplops riijirjula. 



The species on wliich this genus is based has a bare space round 

 the eye. A concealed dorsal patch, which is white in the male 

 and oranoe-butf in the female. The bill is of normal size and 

 hooked at the tip. The wing is rounded, the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth primaries are longest and equal, the third about equal in 

 length to the seventh. The tail is almost square at the tip, the 

 outer feather on each side being only sliglitly shorter than the 

 middle ones. Coloration : the dorsal patch white in the male, 

 oraniie-buff in the female. 



380. Anoplops rufigula. 



Rufous-fronted Ant-catcher. 



TuriJiis rrifgida Bodd. Tabl. PI. Eiil. p. 39, 1783 (Cayenne). 

 J-'if/ii/s jit'cforalis Cab. in Schomb. Kois. Guian. iii. p. G85. 184S. 

 Fithys ritfiqula Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 428 (Baviica Grove, Camacusa) ; 



W. L.'Sclat.T, Ibis, 1887, p. 318 (Maccasseema). 

 Oymnopithi/H rnfujuJa Sclater, Cat. B. Urit. Mus. xv. p. 297, 1890. 

 Anoplops rvjhjula Brabourne & Chubb, Jj. S. Anier. i. p. 20G, no. 2074, 



1912. 

 Anoplops rvfiqula rufigula Beebc, Tropical Wild Life in Brit. Guian. 



p. 229, "1917. 



" Yackman-bird " ( IT. L. Si-later). 



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