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No. 3921 = 1380. Mascisaxicola striaticei^s Lafr. &, D'Orb." — Al. 50 ; cauda 53 ; 

 tars. 1 8 ; rostr. 1 1 i mm. 



It answers very well to the original description and to the plate in D'Orbigny's 

 work, and is no doubt the type of the species. No attempt having as yet been 

 made to identify the name, Conut Berlepsch drew my attention to it, snggesting 

 that it might prove to be the female of K. cinereus Scl. This supposition I 

 found fully confirmed by the examination of the type specimen, which agrees 

 perfectly with a female of this species in the Tring Museum. It may be described 

 as follows : Forehead and crown pale cinnamon-rufous with narrow blackish 

 shaft-stripes ; back pale greyish brown, upper tail-coverts pale cinnamon-rufous. 

 Tail-feathers Ijlackish brown, the inner web of the four onter pairs except at the 

 tip cinnamon-rufous ; the outermost with a distinct white margin along the onter 

 web. Lesser wing-coverts greyish brown, like the back ; median aud greater series 

 dark brown with large white apical spots forming two wing-bands. Quills dark 

 brown, primaries very narrowly edged with greyish, the inner secondaries with 

 broader white margins. Sides of the head huffy whitish ; lower parts whitish, 

 with pale greyish-brown shaft-stripes on the breast ; under tail-coverts cinnamon- 

 rufous, whitish at the tips. Axillaries and under wing-coverts bnfty whitish. 

 Bill brownish horn-colour. 



Mus. Tring ; ? ad. Tapia, Tucuman, 000 m., December 2, 1902, coll. Baer. — 

 Al. 55 ; caud. 58 ; rostr. 11^ mm. 



This specimen differs from the type only by its slightly longer tail. 

 The female of A'. striatici>ps bears a certain resemblance to that of A", qiani- 

 rostiis, but besides being very mnch smaller, it is easily to be distinguished by the 

 white onter web of the outermost tail-feather,'the white (instead of rusty-whitish) 

 wing-bands, the much paler greyish-brown back, aud by having only the breast 

 very indistinctly streaked with greyish. 



The type in the Paris Museum is marked as coming from ( 'hiquitos,* viz. from 

 the lowlands in Eastern Bolivia. This seems much more probable than the locality 

 La Paz (in the high Andes), first indicated by Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny, the 

 more so, as the type of K. cinereus was obtained not far from the Bolivian 

 boundary in S.W. Brazil. 



The synonymy of the species is as follows : 



Knipolegus striaticcps (Lafr. & D'Orb.). 



Muscisaricnla strialiceps Lafresnaye & Orbigny, Sy/i. Ad. i. iu Mnij. Zu'il. 18.37. cl. ii. p. CG [" La 



Paz, Bolivia." — the type is marked " Chiquitos."] (= ? ). 

 Muscisiij-iciila strialiceps D'Orbigny, Vnijiigc Ois. p. 350, tab. 41, fig. 1 (= ? ). 

 Cnqj()le(jus cinereus Sclater, P. Z. S. I87U. p. 58 [Corumba, Mattogrosso] {= i). 



Hab. Eastern Bolivia : Chi(|nitos (?) (D'Orbigny) ; San Miguel (Behn). 

 Mattof/rosso, Brazil : Corumba (L'ajit. Pago). 



Argentina: Cordova (Doering) ; Salta (Duruford) ; Tucuman (Durnfoid, 

 Mus. Brit. ; G. Baer coll. — Mus. Tring). 



* As I learn from a MS. not«, supplied by Count Curlcp-sch, Prof. Bclin got a female at San Miguel, 

 in tlie lowlands of Eastern Bolivia. It was preserved in the Kiel Museum, where it was examined by the 

 Count, and has passed probably into the Berlin Museum — loijctlier witli the otlier specimens of Behn's 

 collection. 



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