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there being scarcely a few brownish feathers on the lower rnmj) ; in the two others 

 the gronnd-colonr is a rather lighter cinnamon-rnfous, and largely mixed with 

 pale brown, especially on the anterior portion of the mantle. The same variation 

 is exhibited by three specimens from C'hapada, Mattogrosso, in the British 

 Musenm. The type of S. scutata, which I also examined, agrees in the colour 

 of the back with No. 2170, while another skin from Bahia (Mns. H. v. Berlejisch) 

 has the back and rnmp cinnamon-rnfons like No. 1675. 



The lores are always white in this species, wliile the colour of the eyebrow 

 varies from white to buff-yellow. Chin and upper throat silky white ; on the 

 lower throat a large black patch ; ear-coverts dull brown ; cheeks, malar region, 

 sides of the neck and belly, as well as the foreneck, bright ochraceons-bnff, middle 

 of the breast and abdomen white. 



In southern Mattogrosso and in the Argentine Republic S. s. scutata is 

 replaced by S. s. whitii Scl., which differs by having the back dull olive-brown 

 without any trace of cinnamon-rnfons, the tail darker rnfous, and the upper 

 wing-coverts and remiges much darker, aliout "hazel" (Ridgw. iv. 12) instead of 

 clear cinnamon-rnfons. The upper tail-coverts are, however, cinnamon-rnfous, as in 

 «S. s. scutata. 



An adult male collected by Borelli near Urucum, and kindly sent for 

 comparison by Count Salvadori, agrees exactly with four specimens from 

 Jnjny, in the Tring Museum. The distribution of the two forms is accordingly 

 as follows : 



(a) S. scutata scutata Scl. Brazil : Bahia (type) ; Goyaz : Rio Thesonras, 

 R. Araguaya and Faz. Esperan(;a (Baer) ; North S. Panlo : S. Jeronymo on the 

 Rio Tiete (Garbe) ; Mattogrosso : Chapada (Smith). 



(6) S. scutata whitii Scl.* S.W. Mattogrosso, Brazil : Urucum (Borelli) ; 

 Argentine : Oran, Salta (White) ; Jujuy : S. Lorenzo (Borelli), Ledesma (Dinelli). 



100. Synallaxis torquata Wied. 



Synallaxis torquaUi Wied, Beilr. Natiirg. Brasil. 3. ii. p. 697 (1831. — " Campo Geral dea inneren 

 Brasilien "). 



Nos. 1701, 1638. c? ad., ? ad., Faz. Espcranfa, January and December 1906. 

 —Wing 51|, 54 ; tail 66, 64 ; bill 11|, 10 mm. 



The specimens agree perfectly with others from Bahia and Lagoa Santa, 

 in the British Mnseum, and with the series collected by Natterer in 8. Paulo 

 (Ytarart, Irisanga, etc.), lent by the authorities of the Vienna Museum. In all 

 these skins the pileum and nape are warm rnfescent brown (between Ridgway's 

 mummy-brown and mars brown) like the back, and the edge of the wing, as well as 

 the bastard quills, uniform cinnamon-brown. In some examples the first bastard 

 quill is edged with whitish, and there are a few black feathers with white edges 

 on the edge of the wing. 



The males always possess a well-develojjed, concealed, white interscapular 

 patch, and a complete collar of cinnamon-rnfous across the hindneck. In the 

 females the white dorsal spot is altogether absent, and the nuchal collar interrupted 

 in the middle. 



Prince Wied's description generally applies well to the above series, except 



• Synallaxu whitii Sclater, Ibis, 1881. p. GOO. tab. xvii. fig. 2 (Orao, Salta, Argentine). 



