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Synallaxis albescens Tennn. 

 Five adults, males and females, from Palomina, May. 



Synallaxis fuscorufa Scl. 



Three adults, two males and one female, from San Miguel, May and June. 

 These appear to be S. fuscorufa, the type locality of which is San Sebas- 

 tian, Colombia, though they do not agree well with Sclater's description, 

 in which the back is said to be brown. The San Miguel specimens are 

 in somewhat worn plumage, with the back rather gray than brown— a 

 grayish hair brown— the breast ferruginous rather than cinnamon, and 

 little paler than the cap. 



Xiphocolaptes procerus Cab. 



One adult female from Macotama June 24. Judged by descriptions, this 

 specimen is A', procerus. Mr. Ridgway has examined the skin and is of 

 also this opinion. 



Sclerurus albigularis Swains, (subsp. nov. ?). 



One adult female from Palomina, May IS. 



This skin Mr. Ridgway has compared with a specimen of S. albigularis 

 from Tobago, and with the type of >S. canigularis from Costa Rica, and 

 finds that it is exactly intermediate. If more specimens from the same 

 region should prove the characters of this intermediate race to be con- 

 stant it might be well to give it a subspecitic name. 



Grallaria spatiator sp. nov. 



Type (and only specimen) from Macotama, Colombia. No. 5683, <$' 

 adult, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected June 17, 1898, by W. W. 

 Brown, Jr. Altitude, 8000 ft. 



Specific characters. — Resembling Q. rufula, but with much shorter bill ; 

 longer and more slender tarsus; and darker, duller brown coloration. 



Color.— Upper parts, about mummy brown, many of the feathers shaded 

 by a more reddish olive tinge; primaries dusky edged with russet; tail 

 mummy brown ; chin whitish ; throat and breast cinnamon-russet ; flanks 

 raw umber; lower abdomen andcrissum soiled white, the feathers some- 

 what marbled with raw umber and russet. 



Size. — c? adult: Length, skin, 132; wing, 83. 6; tail, 42; exposed cul- 

 men, 20 ; tarsus, 46. 



Ostinops decumanus (Pall.). 



Two adults, male and female, from Palomina. 



