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b. Spots on throat and jugulum little larger than else- 

 where. Inner webs of intermediate tail feathers 

 banded with white like the outer .... affinis.. 



C. Top of head nearly uniform yellowish-gray. Upper parts 



and all the tail feathers banded transversely with 

 brownish-black and whitish. Rounded black spots on 

 the throat and breast. 



a. Body beneath reddish-brown posteriorly, with 

 sparse rounded spots on belly and crissum ; gemi- 

 nate rounded spots on flanks ..... zonatus. 

 h. Body grayish-white beneath, and conspicuously 

 banded transversely everywhere posteriorly. 



Wings longer than the tail ..... paUescens. 

 Wings shorter, or not longer than the tail . . balieatus. 



D. Top of head with well defined streaks of whitish and 



brown ; otherwise much as in two last species . . megalopterus. 



E. Top of head and post-ocular stripe blackish. Tail feathers, 



except the central, black, terminated broadly by soiled 

 white. 



a. Nape rufous. 



luterscapulum unioolor. Beneath entirely unspot- 

 ted (or unicolor), as are also the outer webs of the 

 Intermediate tail feathers ..... capistratus. 



Interscapular feathers banded with black spots, 

 separated by whitish streaks. Crissum banded. 

 Outer webs of intermediate tail feathers banded 

 with whitish rufinucha. 



b. Nape streaked black and white, not rufous. 

 Beneath with conspicuous rounded black spots. 



Crissum banded. Tail tipped with soiled white . jocosus. 

 Beneath plain whitish, immaculate. Tail without 



white tips ........ nigriceps. 



i\ Top of head reddish-brown. Back with geminate black 

 spots, not with linear streaks. Bill very short. Nostrils 

 anterior, rounded, in end of nasal groove. 



a. Post-ocular stripe reddish-brown. Beneath un- 

 spotted. Crissum banded. Exterior lateral tail 

 feather alone spotted on both webs . . . humilis. 



b. Post-ocular stripe black? Beneath with rounded 

 black spots. Two outer tail feathers spotted on both 



webs gularis. 



Campy lorhyn chug albibrunneus. 



Heleodytes albobrunneus, Lawr. Ibis, IV, Jan. 1862, 10. — Ib. Ann. N. Y. 

 Lyo. VII, 1862, no. 322 (Isthmus of Panama). 

 Not figured. 



ffab. Line of Panama Railroad. 



Head and neck all round and under parts, including lining of wings, pure 

 white; rest of upper parts, with wings and tail, uniform liver brown. The 



