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Panam4 (Lion Hill; Panam4) through Colombia (Rio Truando; 
Bogoté), Venezuela (La Pricion, Rio Caura), British Guiana (Bartica 
Grove; Camacusa), Ecuadér (Rio Napo; Sarayacu; Valle de Zamora) 
and Peru (Pebas; Yurim4guas; Chamicuros; Upper Ucayali; Xeberos; 
Chyavetas; Tarapata) to Cayenne and western Brazil (Borba and 
Humaytha, Rio Madeira). 
[Muscicapa] pygmea Gueuin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 933 (Cayenne; based on 
Petit Gobe-mouche tacheté de Cayenne Daubenton, Pl. Enl., pl. 831, fig. 2). 
Muscicapa pygmza Latuam, Index Orn., i, 1790, 488.—VizittoT, Nouv. Dict. d’ 
Hist. Nat., xxi, 1818, 484 (Cayenne). 
Flormicivora] pygmza Capanis, Wiegmann’s Archiv fir Naturg., xiii, pt. i, 
1847, 227. 
[Formicivora] pygmza Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 200. 
Formicivora pygmza Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 77.—ScLaTER, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 147 (Bogoté, Colombia); 1858, 67 (e. Ecuadér). 
Myrmotherula pygmza ScuaTrr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 234 (monogr.); 
Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 179 (Rio Napo, e. Ecuadér); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv, 
1890, 230 (Bartica Grove and Camacusa, Brit. Guiana; Pebas, Yurimaguas, 
and Chamicuros, e. Peru; Rio Napo and Sarayacu, e. Ecuadér; Bogota, 
Colombia).—Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 190 (Rio Truando, 
Colombia).2—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 235 (Lion Hill, Pana- 
m4).¢—SciatEeRand Sarvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 185 (Upper Ucayali, 
e. Peru); 1867, 750 (Xeberos, Yurimaguas, and Chyavetas, e. Peru), 978 
(Pebas, e. Peru); 1873, 274 (Upper Ucayali, Xeberos, Yurimaguas, Chyavetas, 
Chamicuros,-and Pebas, e. Peru); 1879, 624 (Yuracares, Bolivia).—PELZELN, 
Orn. Bras., ii, Abth., 1869, 80; iv, Abth., 1870, 417.—Satvi, Ibis, 1870, 311 
(Rio Truando, Colombia); 1874, 311 (synonymy); 1885, 425 (Brit. Guiana).— 
TaczanowsklI, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, 30 (Yurimaguas, e. Peru); 
Orn. du Pérou, ii, 1884, 37.—Brrierscx, Journ. fiir Orn., 1889, 304 (Tarapata, 
n. Peru); Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 154 (Cayenne).—Satvaporr and Festa, 
Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 362, 1899, 29 (Valle de Zamora, Ecua- 
dér).—Beruerscy and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 73 (La Pricion, Rio 
Cuara, Venezucla).—Hezimarr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 382 (Borba and 
_Humaytha, Rio Madeira, Brazil; crit.).—Snrranece, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, v, 
1908, 55 (Bom Lugar, Rio Purts, n. Brazil). 
[Myrmotherula] pygmxa ScratER and Sauvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 71.— 
SHarre, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 20. : 
M[yrmophila] pygmeum CaBpantis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, 18, 
footnote. 
Genus MYRMOPAGIS Ridgway. 
Myrmopagis » Ripaway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, Apr. 17, 1909, 69. (Type, 
Myrmothera axillaris Vieillot.) 
(?)Myrmophila ¢ Capanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, 12. (Type, 
Formicivora brevicauda Swainson. ) 
« These two references, very strangely, are placed under M. surinamensis in the 
Biologia Centrali-Americana (Aves, ii, 209). I have seen the specimens on which 
they are based, and they are M. pygmexa, not M. surinamensis. 
b Mépynf, an ant; xayéc, a trap. 
¢ “Von pbppoc (Ameise) und ¢cdew (lieben).’’ (Cabanis and Heine.) 
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