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MERULIDJS. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length near five inches : the 

 male has the top of the head deep black ; and a slight 

 dash of the same colour extending from the eye to 

 the occiput : the lores, eyebrows, cheeks, and throat, 

 are greyish-white : the back and the scapulars are 

 ashy-green ; the lesser wing-coverts are deep black, 

 crossed with two white bands : the secondaries are 

 edged with whitish : the quills are bright-red on their 

 outer webs, but black on their inner : the under parts 

 of the body are irregularly tinged with ashy-yellow : 

 the tail is long and wedged, the two middle-feathers 

 being entirely grey, the rest black, with their tips 

 white, the white being most extended on the outer 

 feathers. The female is less brilliant : the top of 

 the head and the stripe behind the eyes are reddish : 

 the back is rufous, and the under parts are more 

 shaded with ashy ; of which colour the flanks are 

 tinged. 



Sp. 7. Fo? ferruginea. 



Fo? nigra albo varia, subtus ferrugineus ; gula rufo albo nigroque 

 variegata; superciliis apicibusque tectricium et rectricium albis. 



Black Ant- Wren varied with white, ferruginous beneath ; with 

 the throat variegated with red, white, and black; the eyebrows 

 and tip of the wing-coverts and tail-feathers white. 



Myothera ferruginea. Temm. PI. Col 132./. 3. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length five inches : the male 

 has the head, occiput, cheeks, wings, the middle of 

 the back, and the tail, deep black, varied with white, 

 which colour passes over the eyes, from the beak to 

 the occiput in form of a streak : the auricular feathers 

 are varied with black and white: the wing-coverts 

 are marked at the tip of each feather with spots of 



