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Show 1878.] COLLECTED BY PROF. STEERE IN SOUTH AMERICA. 139 Although so abnormal in colour, we cannot arrange this bird, of which Prof. Steere unfortunately obtained but a single specimen, as otherwise than a typical Myiarchus. The wings are rather short, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries being nearly equal and longest. The wing-end, embracing the first five or six primaries, is black, as are the centre portions of the other remiges ; but the latter are bordered above and below with rufous. In the tail the black colour is confined to the inner webs of the three middle pairs of rectrices, the two outer pairs being wholly rufous, and the next pair having only a slight trace of the black patch. 10. MACH^EROPTERUS PYROCEPHALUS, Sclater. Machceropterus pyrocephalus, Sclater, Ibis, 1862, p. 176. Of this beautiful Manikin two examples were procured by Prof. Steere-one at Rioja, and the other at Moyobamba. 11. ATTILA TORRIDUS, Sclater. Altila torridus, Sclater, P. Z. S. I860, p. 280. A single skin from Santa Rosa agrees with Sclater's types of his A. torridus, except in being rather brighter below and in being rather shorter in the wing. W e do not think it distinguishable. 12. FURNARIUS PILEATUS, sp. n. Supra castaneus, superciliis albis; pileo obscure brunneo; subtus albus, lateraliter ochraceo perfusus; remigibus nigris rufo bifasciatis ; rectricibus castaneis, maculd in pogonio interiore nigrd preeditis; rostro corneo, mandibuld inferiore ad basin albicante; pedibus nigris : long, tota 6*8, alee 3*5, caudce 2*tarsi 1*1. Hab. Santarem, Amazons (Steere). Obs. F. figulo affinis, sed pileo brunneo ed pedibus majoribus diversus. A single skin of a Furnarius obtained at Santarem, on the south bank of the Amazons, seems to be referable to a representative form of F. figulus, of S.E. Brazil, distinguishable by its dark brown cap. In F. figulus the head is of exactly the same colour as the back. 13. THAMNOPHILUS SIMPLEX, Sclater. Thamnophilus simplex, Sclater, Ibis, 1873, p. 387. A single skin obtained at Vigia exactly agrees with Sclater's type of this little-known species, now in his collection. It is marked " male: eyes red." 14. STEATORNIS CARIPENSIS. A skin of this bird in Prof. Steere's collection is labelled as having been obtained at Caxamarca, in the Peruvian Andes. This, so far as we know, is much further south than any previously recorded locality |