236 POEMICAEIID^. 



rufous breast, however, renders it readily distinguishable as well from F. analis as from 

 all its congeners. 



F. rufipectus was described from a single skin (marked ? ) obtained by our collector 

 Arce at Santiago de Veraguas ^ ; he some years afterwards secured us a second specimen. 

 We have also received from the late Clarence Buckley a skin, agreeing with the type, 

 from Baisa in Ecuador, suggesting that F. thoracicus ^ may refer to the same species. 



h', Plumce supranasales elongatw, prorectoe. 



PHLOGOPSIS. 



Phlegopis, Reichenbachj Av. Syst, t. 57 (1850). 



Phlogopsis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 276; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 299. 



This genus contains five or six species, all more or less remarkable for their structure 

 and colour. One species, P. macleannani, is characteristic of the southern section of 

 the Central- American fauna. The rest belong to the Amazons Valley from the eastern 

 slopes of the Andes to Para. 



The bill in P. macleannani is rather stout, the culmen somewhat elevated and slightly 

 curved, the nostrils are slightly oval and open, the frontal feathers are rather elongated 

 and directed forwards, the lower portion of the lores and the whole orbital space, except 

 a small tuft of short, curved feathers over the anterior portion of the latter, quite nude ; 

 both the acrotarsium and planta are devoid of scutella; the tail is long and much 

 rounded. 



Most of these characters are in strong contrast to those of Formicarius, near which 

 Phlogopsis has usually found a place. 



1. Phlogopsis macleannani. 



Phlogopsis macleannani, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. pp. 285 ^, 294 ° ; ix. p. 109 ' ; Scl. & Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 357 ' ; Ex. Orn. p. 17, t. 9 = j Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 145 ' ; 1872, p. 318 ' ; 

 Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 415 ' ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 115 ' ; 

 Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 300 ". 



Capite summo umbrino-brunneo, fronte et superoiliis magis canescentibus ; cervice postica fascia transversa 

 rufo-castanea ; dorso, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum omnibus umbrinis, plumis singulis macula magna 

 Bubapicali nigra, dorso postico umbrino immaculato ; tectricibus supracaudaHbus longissimis, ad apicem fere 

 nigris : subtus gutture toto nigro, pectore et abdomine castaneis, plumis singulis sicut dorso nigro macnlatis, 

 maculis pectoralibus fere celatis, colore castaneo ad crinum in nmbrinum transeunte ; oculorum ambita 

 nudo, ave vivo caeruleo : rostro nigro, pedibus cum unguibus flavis. Long, tota 7"5, alae 3-5, caudae rectr. 

 med. 3-3, rectr. lat. 2-45, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 1"25. (Descr. maris ex Santiago de Veraguas, Panama. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis. 



Edb. NiCABAGUA, Chontales {Belt 7) ; Costa Rica, Tucurriqui {Arce % Angostura 

 {CarmioP), Rio Sucio (J. Cooper^, Zeledon^); Panama, Santiago de Veraguas 

 {Arce % Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^ 2 4j. 



