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and sides of body bright dark ferruginous; middle of 

 abdomen and jugular patch white; top of head and hind- 

 neck dark grey ; remainder of upper surface olive-brown ; 

 remiges blackish brown, externally edged with the colour of 

 the back, with the extreme bases and inner webs edged with 

 pale ferruginous ; primary-coverts black ; tail brown ; under 

 wing-coverts ferruginous. Wing, <$ 70, 2 67 , tail 31-33, 

 metatarsus 25 mm. 



Hab. Las Palmales and Rincon de San Antonio, Cumana, 

 Venezuela, Feb. 1898. 



VlREOLANIUS MIKETTjE, n. Sp. 



<$ ad. Upperside olive-green, crown and nape ashy grey ; 

 sides of crown washed with green; a large loral patch, a 

 spot at the base of the mandible and another under the eye 

 and a narrow superciliary line behind the eye bright yellow, 

 the latter consisting of narrow elongated feathers. Chin, 

 throat, middle of breast and abdomen, inner lining of the 

 Squills, and under wing-coverts bright yellow. Sides of breast 

 'and abdomen olive-green. Wings 21, metatarsus 20, tail 

 51 mm. 

 j Hab. Paramba, North Ecuador, 3500 feet alt. 



This interesting form differs from V. leucotis, of which it 

 jnay be considered the northern representative, by the 

 absence of the white auricular patch, the deeper and brighter 

 yellow of the under surface of the body and the superciliary 

 line, as well as the more pronounced and more extended 

 olive-green colour on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 



Named after the collector, Mr. R. Miketta, one of 

 Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg's correspondents. 



Dysithamnus flemmingi, n. sp. 



£ . Feathers of the crown black, with several lateral spots 

 of a greyish white, which produce quite a spotted appear- 

 ance ; remainder of upperside olive-grey, more olive on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; quills deep greyish brown, 

 almost blackish, outwardly edged with olive-grey, inwardly 

 with buffy white ; tail brownish black, with olive-grey outer 



