64 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
MAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 209, part—Sanvapori and Fzsta, 
Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 362, 1899, 29 (Gualaquiza, e. Ecuadsr; 
Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuadér).—Banas, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 
ii, 1900, 23 (Loma del Leén, Panam4).—GoopretLow, Ibis, 1902, 64 (San 
Nicolas and Gualea, w. Ecuadér).—Bzruerscu and Hartert, Novit. Zool., 
ix, 1902, 73 (Munduapo, etc., Venezuela; crit.) —Harrert, Novit. Zool., ix, 
1902, 612 (San Javiér and Pambildr, n. w. Ecuadér; crit.)._-HELmayr, 
Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1906, 53 (Par4, Brazil)—Brruerscu, Novit. 
Zool., xv, 1908, 154 (Cayenne). 
[Myrmotherula] surinamensis ScuateR and Sauvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 71.— 
Saarre, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 20. 
Myrmotherula surinamensis surinamensis MenEcAvux and Hrtimayr, Bull. Soc. 
Philom., sér. 9, viii, 1906, 48 (crit.). 
U{[yrmotherium] surinamense CaBantis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, 13, 
footnote. 
M[yrmotherula] surinamensis typica Scuater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 232, 
in list of specimens (Ver4gua, Panam4, and San Pablo Station, Panamé; 
Bogoté and Remédios, Colombia; Intac and Esmeraldas, w. Ecuadér; Takutu 
River, Carimang River, and Camacusa, Brit. Guiana). 
Myiothera pusilla PucneRAN (ex Cuvier, manuscript), Archiv. Mus. Paris, vii, 
1855, 335, part (Cayenne; =adult male; see Menegaux and Hellmayr, Bull. 
Soc. Philom., 1906, 48). 
MYRMOTHERULA PYGMZEA (Gmelin). 
PYGMY ANTWREN. 
Adult male-—Pileum and hindneck black, narrowly streaked with 
pale yellowish buff or. buffy whitish; scapulars and interscapulars 
black, the former with outer web broadly edged with yellowish white, 
the latter with much less distinct whitish edgings; rump pale gray, 
slightly tinged with buffy yellowish; tail black, the rectrices nar- 
rowly edged with grayish; wings black, the middle and greater coverts 
broadly tipped (on outer webs) with yellowish white (forming two 
conspicuous wing-bands), the remiges narrowly edged (except on 
basal portion of distal secondaries and proximal primaries) with 
yellowish white; auricular and suborbital regions pale yellowish 
buffy, margined above and below by a rather broad postocular and 
a malar streak of black; chin and throat white; rest of under parts 
primrose or pale straw yellow, including under wing-coverts and 
broad edgings to inner webs of remiges; maxilla blackish brown with 
paler tomium, mandible dull yellowish or whitish in dried skins, gray 
in life;+ iris dark brown;% legs and feet horn color in dried skins, 
olive-green in life;* length (skin), 65; wing, 38.5; tail, 16; culmen, 
13; tarsus, 15.5; middle toe, 8.5.° 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male ‘‘but cap striped with 
pale rufous; throat fulvous.”’ ¢ 
@ Cherrie; see Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 73. 
b One specimen from Panamé4. 
¢ Sclater, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 230. I have not seen the female of this 
species. 
