FORMIC ART NfiE. 
quills equal and longest. Tail short and much rounded. Tarsi longer than the middle toe, and covered 
m front with scarcely divided scales. Toes moderate, with the outer rather longer than the inner, and 
united at the base, the hind toe long and strong; the claws moderate, curved, and acute, that of the hind 
toe long, and more or less curved and acute. 
It is in tropical portions of America that these birds are usually seen on the ground or on the trunks of trees, on 
which they support themselves by means of their tails, searching for ants and other kinds of insects. 
b F . cayanensis Bodd. PI. enl. 821. — Turdus colma Bodd. ; 
Myiothera ruficeps Spins, Av. Bras. t. 72. f. 1. ; Myrmothera tetema 
et M. fuscicapilla Vieill, PI. enl. 70S. f. 1. 
2. ? F. unibrettus (Liclit.) Cat. Dupl. Berl. Mus. p. 43. 
3- F. torquatus Bodd. PI. enl. 700. f. 1. — Turdus formicivorus 
Gmel. ; Myioturdus palikour Menetr. 
4. F. lincatus (Grael.) PI. enl. 823. f. 1. 
5. F. ana/is (D’Orb. & Lafr.) Syn. Avium, p. 14., Voy. dans 
lAme'r. Ois. t. 6*. f. 1. 
6. F. nigromaculatus (D’Orb. & Lafr.) Syn. Avium, p. 14., 
V °y. dans l’Amer. Me'r, Ois. t. 6*. f. 2. 
7. F. longipes (Vieill.) N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xvii. p. 321., 
wains. Zool. Illustr. pi. 23. — Drymophila gralleria Swains. 
8 - F . thamnophiloides (Spix), Av. Bras. t. 52. f. 1, 2. — Myrmo- 
hieia atrieapilla Vieill. ? ; Thamnophilus myiotlierinus Spix. 
9. F. gularis (Spix), Av. Bras. t. 41. f. 2., Mem. de l’Acad. 
c f St. Petersb. 1 835. t. 2. f. 2. — Myiothera cinerea Pr. Max. 
t0. F. cirrhatus (Gmel.) PI. enl. 643. f. 2. — Myrmothera 
axillaris Vieill. ; Myiothera fuliginosa III. ; Formicivora brevi- 
cauda Swains. ; Thamnophilus melanogaster Spix, Av. Bras. t. 43. 
lb F. unicolor (Menetr.) Mem. de 1’ Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 1835. 
P- 480. t. 2. f. 1. 
12. F. surinamensis (Lath.) Lath. Hist, of B. pi. 28 Musci- 
capa pygmsea Latli. 
13. F. minutus (D’Orb. & Lafr.) PI. enl. 831. f. 2. 
14. F. guttatus (Vieill.) Gal. des Ois. t. 155. 
15. F. Menetriesii (D’Orb.) Voy. dans l’Amer. Me'r. Ois. p. 184. 
16. F. Fresnayanus D’Orb. Voy. dans l’Amer. Mer. Ois. t. 6. 
f. 1. 
17. F. saperciliosus (Cuv.) Iconogr. Guer. t. 11. f. 1. 
18. F. mentalis (Temm.) PI. col. 179. f. 2.— Myiothera polioce- 
phala Pr. Max. 
1 9- F. olivaceus (Tschudi), Fauna Peruana, p. 18. 
20. F. axillaris (Tschudi), Fauna Peruana, p. 18. 
21. F. strictothorax (Temm.) Pi. col. 179. f. 1,2. Lanius 
guttatus Liclit. . 
22. F. qffinis (D’Orb. & Lafr.) Syn. Avium, p. 13. 
23. F .flammatus (Strickl.) Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. pi. 13. 
24. F. calcaratus (Pr. Max.) Beitr. iii. p. 1101. — Type of Co- 
rythopis Sundev. (1835). 
25. F. torquatus (Tschudi), Fauna Peruana, p. 19. 
26. F. brachyurus (Vieill.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p.6'6. — Type of 
Ramphoeinclus Lafr. (1843). 
27. F. tremulus (Lafr.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p. 66. 
28. F. gutturalis (Lafr.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p. 66’. 
Formicivora Swains .* 
l>ill more or less long and strong, with the culinen keeled, slightly curved, and the sides compressed 
0 the tip, which is emarginated ; the gonys long and ascending ; the nostrils lateral, with the opening 
°bnded, exposed, and placed anteriorly in a small membranous groove. Wings rather short, and much 
0,1 nded, with the fourth quill nearly as long as the fifth and sixth, which are equal and longest. Tail 
^nthep lengthened, and much rounded. Tarsi longer than, or as long as, the middle toe, and covered in 
° n t with slightly divided scales. Toes long, with the outer toe longer than the inner, and united at 
^ ase ) the hind toe long ; the claws moderate, curved, and acute, that of the hind toe long and strong. 
T] 
eitl 1G S ^ CC ^ es tliat are embraced in this genus reside in the virgin forests of the tropical parts of America : they are 
Cr seen solitary or in small flocks of five or six individuals, moving quickly about the lower small branches of the 
* Ar 
Whi^ n f Wainson established this genus in 1824 (Journ. Zool. ii. p. 145.). It embraces Leptorhynchus of M. Mene'tries (1832), with 
^ r * Strickland (1844) is synonymous; and Drymophila of Mr. Swainson (1824), with which Myrmeciza G. R. 
J U«41) i s synonymous. 
