BIRDS OF BRITISH GOIANA. 



Order PASSEEIFORMES. 



Family CONOPOPHAGID^, 



This family is characte;-ized by the broad, depressed, and 

 Muscicapine bill, and further distinguished in having four 

 notches in the posterior margin of the sternum. 



It consists of three genera and about fifteen species, all of which 

 are confined to the continent of South America — from Colombia, 

 Venezuela, and Guiana on the North to South-east Brazil, 

 Paraguay, and Bolivia in the South, two of the genera and two 

 of the species being represented in British Guiana. 



Genus CONOPOPHAGA Vieill. 



ConopopJtaqa Vieillot, Anal. nouv. Orn. p. 39, 1816. Type G. aurita 



(Gmei.). 

 Myagrus Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 973, for Tardus auritus Lath., is a synonym 



of the present genus. 



Fig. 1. — Conopophaga a. aurita. 

 The members of this genus are distinguished chiefly by their 



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