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Ant- Wren above black, with numerous white spots, beneath ashy- 

 white varied with black; lesser quills tipped with black ; tail 

 graduated. 



Length five inches : upper mandible of the beak 

 black, lower horn-colour : the wing-coverts and all 

 the upper parts of the plumage are deep black, varie- 

 gated by numerous tear-shaped spots of pure white : 

 on the head these spots are so disposed as to form 

 macular bands over the eyes, leaving the middle of 

 the crown, and a stripe above the ears, entirely black : 

 the under parts of the plumage are ashy-white, with 

 the middle of the feathers black, particularly on the 

 breast and body, where their colour forms spots : the 

 quills are brownish, margined by light grey : and 

 each of the lesser quills is tipped with a round spot 

 of fulvous white : tail rather lengthened, much gra- 

 duated, the feathers moderately pointed, their colour 

 black tipped with white, and crossed by three inter- 

 rupted white bands : tarsi rather short, weak, and 

 pale. 



Sp. 2. Fo. nigricollis. Zool. Jour. {Swain.) ii. 147. 



Fo. supra griseo Jusca ; jugulo, pectore, ahdomineque nigris; late- 

 ribus strigaque oculari niveis; Cauda elongata, gradata, nigra, 

 apice alba; mas.: aut, supra form gineo fousco ; lateribus tes- 

 taceis ; rectricibus intermediis fuscis ; foemina. 



Ant- Wren above greyish-brown 3 with the throat, breast, and 

 middle of the body black ; the sides and eye-stripe snowy ; tail 

 graduated, black, tipped with white ; male : or, rusty-brown 

 above, with the sides testaceous; the middle tail-feathers brown; 

 female. 



Length four inches and three quarters : beak 

 black : the general tint of the upper plumage of the 



