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varia), as its habits resemble those of that bird — running along the upper and lower 

 sides of the branches, frequently with its head downwards 3. Salmon describes the nest 

 as made of very fine roots and grass, and placed in low bushes, a slight network 

 hanging at the end of a thin bough, very deep, and suspended between a fork with the 

 natural leaves of the shrub or bush above to protect it from the rain. The eggs are 

 white ^. Stolzmann found M. surinamensis in small numbers at Yurimaguas in Peru 

 living in the lofty trees like the small species of Tyrannidae, and accompanying the 

 bands of wandering birds ^^. 



/3. Rostrum robicstim, cauda longior, ptilosis haud striata, 

 a '. Gula albo maculata. . 



2. Myfmotherula fidviventris. 



Myrmotherula ornata, Cassin, Pr. Ac. thil. 1860, p. 190, partim (cf. Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 311)'. 



Myrmotherula, sp. no. 216, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 325 '\ 



Myrmotherula fulviventris, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 468'; ix. p. 108*; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 356 ' ; 1879, p. 525 " ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 331 " ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 311 ' ; Eidgw. 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 590'; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 115"; Scl. 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XV. p. 234". 



Supra obscure brunnea fere unicolor, cauda vix fulvescentiore ; teetricibus alarum nigris cervino terminatis : 

 subtus fulva, gula alba plumis singulis basi nigra, subalaribus et remigibus interne pallida cervinis : rostro 

 et pedibus nigricanti-plumbeis, mandibula pallida. Long, tota 4'0, alse 2*0, caudae 1-25, rostri a rictu 

 0-65, tarsi 0-65. 



5 mari similis, sed gula quam pectus vix paUidiore, baud alba, plumarum basi nigra. (Descr. maris et feminae 

 ex Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. HoNDUKAS, Segovia river (Townsend ^) ; Costa Eica, Angostura (Carmiol^), 

 Pacuare, Jimenez {Zeledon i") ; Panama, Veraguas {Arce), Lion Hill Station 

 [M^Leannan ^ ^ ^), R. Truando ( Wood ^). — Colombia^ '' ; Ecuador i^. 



The true position of this species as a distinct bird was not recognized at first. Cassin 

 referred specimens obtained during Lieut. Michler's expedition to Darien with doubt to 

 M. ornata ^. Mr. Lawrence hesitated to describe the first specimens sent him by 

 M'Leannan ^, but afterwards gave them the name now borne by the species ^, which 

 proves to be quite distinct. It belongs to a section of the genus which has the throat 

 of the male spotted with white, but is the only known form having a fulvous breast 

 and brown back. On the Isthmus of Darien this bird is said by Mr. W. S. Wood to be 

 found at Camp Toucey oq the Truando and at Turbo; where it was observed in high 

 trees, and also occasionally in the bushes, being very active and constantly in motion ^. 



The range northwards of M. fulviventris from the Isthmus of Panama is extensive, 

 for though it does not reach Guatemala, it has been traced' to the northern side of the 

 valley of the Segovia river in Honduras, where Mr. Townsend obtained two specimens ®. 

 It is not apparently a common bird either in Costa Eica or the State of Panama beyond 

 the line of railway, as none of Arce's earlier collections contained examples. 



