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Plate XXVII. 



MYIADESTES KALLOIDES. 





(ANDEAN SOLITAIEE). 



Muscipeta armillata 

 Muscipeta ralloides 

 Ptilogonys griseiventer 

 Myiadestes griseiventer 



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Myiadestes venezuelensis 



Lafr. et d'Orb. Mag. de Zool. 1837, Ois. p. 38. 



d'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 322. 



Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1814, i. p. 270 ; Faun. Per. Aves, pp. 7, 140. 



Cab. "Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i. p. 209. 



Bp. Consp. p. 336. 



Sclater, Ann. et Mag. 1ST. H. Ser. 2, vol. xvii. p. 468 : P.Z.S. 1860, p. 64 : Cat. Am. B. p. 47. 



Baird, Eev. A. B. p. 427. 



Supra pallide rufus, uropygium versus saturatior ; pileo cinerascente : loris nigricantibus : lateribus capitis et 

 corpore toto subtus schistaceis, hypochondriis paulum rufescentibus : alis nigris brunneo extus variegatis, macula 

 magna interna alba : cauda nigra, recfcricibus duabus mediis brunDescentibus, lateralibus magis pallidis et albo termi- 

 natis : rostro nigro, basi pallido : pedibus pallide corylinis : long, tota 60, alse 3*4, caudse 2S.—JFoem. mari similis. 

 Junior, maculis rotundis pallide runs nigro -marginatis undique aspersus. 



Hab. in Bolivia, Peruvia, rep. iEquatoriali, Nov. Granada et Venezuela. 



While the northern and Antillean species of this group are specially restricted in their 

 geographical areas, the present bird appears to have a wide range in South America, where, if 

 we exclude the aberrant Ptilogonys leucotis of Tschudi, it is the only representative of the 

 genus. Mr. Sclater first met with examples of the present bird in the Museum of the Jardin 

 des Plantes, to which establishment they had been transmitted by M. Levraud from Caraccas, 

 and, not being aware of its identity with Tschudi's and d'Orbigny's species, described it as new 

 from M. Levraud's specimens. Subsequent examination of the type of d'Orbigny's Muscipeta 

 ralloides, in the same collection, has convinced him of the identity of the Venezuelan and 

 Bolivian bird, and though it is not very easy to make out Tschudi's description of his Ptilogonys 

 griseiventer (which has evidently been taken from a young bird), it is more than probable that 

 this is also a synonym of the present species. 



Assuming this view to be correct, the present Solitaire may probably occur in suitable 

 localities throughout the eastern slopes of the Andes, from the neighbourhood of Caraccas to 

 the vallies of Yungas in Bolivia. It is not unfrequently to be met with in Bogota collections. 

 Mr. Fraser shot specimens of it at Pallatanga in Ecuador, in November, 1858. Tschudi gives 

 as its locality the outskirts of the eastern wood-region of Peru. D'Orbigny met with a single 

 specimen in the environs of Chulumani, in the province of Yungas in Bolivia. 



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