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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA, 



Genus MYRMOPHILA Cab. & Hein. 



Myrmophila Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 12, 1859. 

 M. minor (Salvadori). 



Type 



Fig„-16. — MyrmopMla minor. 



In tbis genus the male bas a uniform black tbroat, .The bill is 

 short and slender. The wing is rounded, the fifth primary longest, 

 the fourth about equal to the sixth in length, the third between 

 the seventh and eighth. The tail is proportionately long, being 

 more than half the length of the wing. The sexes differ in colour 

 of plumage. 

 ' Key to the Species. 



A. Larger, wing more than 60 mm. ; upper wing- 



coverts black tipped with white, in contrast 



to the rest of the upper surface M. vavasouri, p. 32. 



B. Smaller, wing less than 60 mm. ; upper wing- 



coverts uniform with the rest of the upper 



surface M. lehni, -p. 33. 



368. MyrmopMla vavasouri. 

 Vavasour's Long-winged Ant-bird. 



Myrmotherula longipennis (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 426 

 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 241, 

 1890; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 198, no. 1988, 1912, '^ 



MyrmopMla vavasouri Chubb, BuU. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxviii. p. 83, 

 1918. 



Adult male. Generalcolour above and below slate-bluejincluding 



