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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 525 248. DYSITHAMNUS SEMICINEREUS, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 177. Concordia. 249. DYSITHAMNUS UNICOLOR, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 178. Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Stomach contained insects. Eggs (no. 44) creamy-white, sparsely spotted with small red spots, and with a zone of large blotches of the same colour round the middle: axis *98, diam. *67. (See Plate XLIII. fig. 9.) 250. MYRMOTHERULA SURINAMENSIS (Gm.); Scl. Cat. p. 179. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. Stomach contained insects. Eggs (no. 102) white: axis *8, diam. *65. " The nest is made of very fine roots and grass, and placed in low bushes. It is a slight network hanging at the end of a thin bough, very deep, and suspended between a fork, with the natural leaves of the shrub or bush above to protect it from the rain. "The bird is a busy insect-hunter, but difficult to observe on account of its small size and the nature of its haunts."-T. K. S. 251. MYRMOTHERULA FULVIVENTRIS, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 468; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 356 ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 311. Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 252. MYRMOTHERULA MEL^ENA (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 180. Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 253. FORMICIVORA CAUDATA, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 182. Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) Iris dark. 254. FORMICIVORA CONSOBRINA, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 183. Pocune. (Mus. S.-G.) 255. RAMPHOOENUS RUFIVENTRIS (Bp.); Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 184. Sta. Elena. (Mus. P. L. S.) Iris red. Food, insects. Nests in low bushes. 256. RAMPHOCENUS CINEREIVENTRIS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 76, pi. lxxxvii. R. semitorquatus, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 469 (1862); Salvin, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 145. Mus. P. L.S. A single example of this Ramphoccenus without label is in the eighth collection. The type of Sclater's species was procured near Pasto ; and it is of interest to get a specimen from an intermediate locality between that place and Panama, the locality of R. semitor- |