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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 511 Fam. TYRANNID^:. 151. MYIOTHERETES STRIATICOLLIS (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 197. Mus. S.-G. One example in the sixth collection. T52. OCHTHODI^ETA FUMIGATA (Boiss.). Octhceca fumigata, Scl. Cat. p. 198. Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 153. OCHTHCECA FUMICOLOR (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 198. Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, insects. Eggs (no. 51) white, with a few small red-brown spots : axis '75, diam. *6. 154. OCHTHCECA LESSONI (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 198. Sta. Helena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, insects. 155. OCHTHCECA CINNAMOMEIVENTRIS (Lafr.) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 199. Envigado and Sta. Helena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, insects. Eggs (no. 58) white with large red spots, chiefly near the larger end: axis '77, diam. '55. 156. OCHTHCECA DIADEMA (Hartl.) ; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. p. 42. Mecocerculus diadema, Scl. Cat. p. 199. Sta. Helena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Food, insects. Eggs (no. 73) white: axis *7, diam. *54. " The nest is made entirely of moss lined with a few feathers, and is built in a bank, generally into a mass of growing moss. The bird lays four cream-white eggs."-T. K. S. 157. SAYORNIS CINERACEA (Lafr.); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 43. S. cineracea et S. latirostris, Scl. Cat. p. 200. Medellin, Frontino. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) Eggs (no. 81) white: axis *8, diam. *6. After comparing skins from Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador, we have come to the conclusion that they are all referable to one species; so that Sclater's S. latii'ostris, founded on specimens from the last locality, must be suppressed. 158. COPURUS LEUCONOTUS, Lafr.; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 204. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) |