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Rh passing into ochraceous-buff on abdomen), the sides and flanks more brownish (nearly raw nmber), the slate-gray restricted to chin and upper throat; wing, 63; tail, 41; culmen, 19; tarsus, 27; middle toe, 17.

Eastern Panamá (Cascajál, Coclé) and adjacent portion of north- western Colombia (Turbo).


 * Myrmeciza exsul (not of Sclater, 1858), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1860, 191 (Turbo, Colombia).
 * Myrmelastes cassini, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 20, 1908, 194 (Turbo, n. w. Colombia; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).

MYRMECIZA EXSUL EXSUL Sclater.

Adult male. — Head and neck, all round, uniform slate-black; upper parts (except pileum and hindneck) plain deep chestnut; lesser wing- coverts at least partly black, those along anterior margin of wing more or less extensively white, and behind this white margin often a few small dots of white; the carpo-metacarpal region also streaked with white, and outermost feather of alula sometimes edged with white; under parts (except chin, throat, flanks, anal region and under tail-coverts), plain blackish slate color; flanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts plain mummy or Vandyke brown; bill black; iris brown; bare skin of postocular region and chin sky blue; legs and feet dusky (blackish horn color or dark bluish gray in life); length (skins), 126-148 (134); wing, 64-71 (67.4); tail, 44-49 (46.8); culmen, l8.5-21.5 (20.2); tarsus, 27-29.5 (28.2); middle toe, 17.5-19 (17.9).

Adult female. — Upper parts as in adult male, but slate-black of pileum and hindneck slightly duller; chin and throat slate-blackish, but usually duller than in adult male; rest of under parts plain vandyke or mummy brown; bill, etc., as in adult male, but mandible