Plate XXYII. 



MYIADE8TES RALLOIDES. 



(ANDEAN SOLITAIEE). 



Miisoipeta armillata 

 IIuscipetoL ralloides 

 Ftilogonys griseiventer 

 Myiadestes griseiventer 



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Myiadestes venezuelensis 



Lafr. et d'Orb. Mag. de Zool. 1837, Ois. p. 38. 



d'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 322. 



Tsch. "Wiegm. Arcli. 18-M, i. p. 270 ; Faun. Per. Aves, pp. 7, 140. 



Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i. p. 209. 



Bp. Consp. p. 3S6. 



Sclater, Ann. et Mag. N. H. Ser. 2, vol. xvii. p. 468, P.Z.S. 1860, p. 64 : Cat. Am. B. p. 47. 



Baird, Eev. A. B. p. 427. 



Supra pallide rufus, uropygium versus saturatior ; pileo cinerascente : loris nigricantibus : lateribus capitis et 

 corpore toto subtus scbistaceis, bypocliondriis pauliim rufescentibus : alis nigris brunneo extiis variegatis, macula 

 magna interna alba : cauda nigra, rectrieibus duabus mediis brunnescentibus, lateralibus magis pallidis et albo termi- 

 natis : rostro nigro, basi pallido : pedibus pallide corylinis : long, tota 6'0, ate 3"4, caudae 2'8. — Jbsm. mari similis. 

 Junior, maculis rotundis pallide rufis nigro-marginatis undique aspersus. 



Sab. in Bolivia, Peruvia, rep. Jilquator, Nov. Granada et Venezuela. 



While the northern and Antillean species of this group are specially restricted in their 

 geograpHcal areas, the present bird appears to have a wide range in South America, where, if 

 we exclude the aberrant Ptilogonys leucotis of Tschudi, it is the only representative of the 

 genus. Mr. Sclater first met with examples of the present bird in the Museum of the Jardin 

 des Plantes, to which establishment they had been transmitted by M. Levraud, from Caraccas, 

 and, not being aware of its identity with Tschudi's and d'Orbigny's species, described it as new 

 from M. Levraud's specimens. Subsequent examination of the types of d'Orbigny's Muscipeta 

 ralloides., in the same collection, has convinced him of the identity of the Venezuelan and 

 Bolivian bird, and though it is not very easy to make out Tschudi's desci'iption of his Ptilogonys 

 griseiventer (which has evidently been taken from a young bird), it is more than probable that 

 this is also a synonym of the present species. 



Assuming this view to be correct, the present Solitaire may probably occur in suitable 

 localities throughout the eastern slopes of the Andes, from the neighbourhood of Caraccas to 

 the vallies of Ymigas in Bolivia. It is not unfrequently to be met with in Bogota collections. 

 Mr. Fraser shot specimens of it at Pallatanga in Ecuador, in November, 1858. Tschudi gives 

 as its locality the outskirts of the eastern Avood-region of Peru. D'Orbigny met with a single 

 specimen in the environs of Chulumani, in the province of Yungas in Bolivia. 



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