ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
SCYTALOPUS ALBIVENTRIS, MENETRIES. 
Puate LXXYVI. Fic. 2. 
Malacorhynchus albiventris, Ménét. Mem. ac. Petersb. 
Our specimen of this bird we purchased in Liverpool, where we 
saw a good many examples. Above, uniform dark blackish-gray, 
on the rump and upper tail-covers umber brown, slightly undulated 
with black and pale tips to the feathers. Below, chin, throat, 
breast and belly white; auriculars and sides of breast gray; flanks 
and under tail-coverts yellowish-umber, irregularly barred with 
black ; maxilla umber brown; mandible, tarsi, and feet, yellowish- 
umber. 
Entire length, 4.7; bill to forehead, 4; wing to fifth quill, 2; 
tarsi, 8. 
Inhabits North and South Brazil (auct. Bonap. Consp. G. Av.) 
August 7, 1851, 
118-10 

