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70 Frio, Costa Rica). — and, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., xv, no. 362, 1899, 30 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuadór). — , Ibis, 1902, 64 (Santo Domingo, w. Ecuadór). —  and , Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 74 (Maipures, etc., Venezuela; crit.; descr. nest and eggs). —, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 608 (Caribbean lowlands up to 1,500 ft., Costa Rica; crit.; habits).
 * [Myrmotherula] melæna, Orn. Bras., iv, Abth., 1870, 418. — and , Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 72. — , Hand-list, iii, 1901, 22.
 * M[yrmophila] melæna and, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, 13.
 * Myrmotherula albigula, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 1867, 131 (Panamá Railway; coll. G. N. Lawrence; = ?; see Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 317); ix, 1868, 108 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — , Journ. für Orn., 1869, 305 (Costa Rica).

MYRMOPAGIS SCHISTICOLOR (Lawrence).

Similar to M. menetriesii D'Orbigny (?) but tail much longer (both absolutely and relatively); adult male with wing-coverts much darker, the lesser and middle coverts being wholly black (except for the white terminal spots), instead of slate color with black subterminal area, and inner-anterior portion of lesser wing-covert area much less extensively white.

Adult male. — Above mainly uniform slate color; wing-coverts, which are black, each tipped with a transversely subtriangular or subrounded spot of white; primary coverts and alula also black, the former with a small white mark at tip of outer web, the latter terminally margined with white; a white patch (mostly concealed) at junction of wing and body; chin, throat, and chest (sometimes breast also, at least medially) uniform black; malar region black, barred with slate-gray; sides of head and neck, together with lateral and posterior under parts, uniform slate color, except under tail-coverts, which are margined terminally with white and barred subterminally with black; under wing-coverts mixed white and blackish; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with brownish white; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet grayish, horn color, or dusky (bluish gray or grayish blue in life); length (skins), 90-105 (96.5); wing, 54-61 (56.8); tail, 33-38 (36); culmen, 12.5-14.5 (13.3); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16.3); middle toe, 9.5-10 (9.7).