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Show 514 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 3, 175. MYIODYNASTES AUDAX (Gm.). Sta. Elena, Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. , . . . . . . . "The nest is made of fern-stalks and twigs, and is placed in the fork of a tree or high bush. The eggs are two, white, spotted with red."-T. K. S. 176. MYIODYNASTES CHRYSOCEPHALUS (Tsch.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 223. Concordia. (Mus. P. L. S. and S.-G.) 177. CNIPODECTES SUBBRUNNEUS (Scl.); Scl. et Salv. P. Z.S. 1873, p. 281. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 178. MYIOBIUS BARBATUS (Gm.). M. barbatus et 31. xanthopygius, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 225. Sta. Elena. (Mus. S. G.) Under the name of M. barbatus we are now disposed to unite the Brazilian and more northern forms kept separate in Sclater's Catalogue. The Panama bird, M. atricaudus, Lawrence (Ibis, 1863, p. 183) is hardly different. 179. MYIOBIUS VILLOSUS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 93, 465. Frontino. In our ' Nomenclator ' we have united this species to the Central- American form 31. sulphureipygius, but are now inclined to recognize it as distinct, though very closely allied. 180. MYIOBIUS CINNAMOMEUS (Lafr. et d'Orb.) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 226. Concordia, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Mr. Salmon's skins agree with specimens from Bogota and Ecuador. 181. MYIOBIUS FLAVICANS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 464. Sta. Elena. (Mus S.-G.). Iris dark ; food, insects. , Mr. Salmon's skins agree with specimens from Ecuador and Bogota. (Mus. P. L. S.) 182. MYIOBIUS N^EVIUS (Bodd.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 227- Medellin. Food, insects ; nests on low branches of trees. Eggs (no. 16) salmon-colour, with large red blotches near the larger end : axis '65, diam. *5. " At the extremity of the horizontal branch of a tree I have seen this nest beautifully constructed of coarse grass interwoven like basketwork with other materials, as moss and leaves. The body of the nest is formed of very long grass, which is carried along the |