126 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1890. 



PULSATRIX PERSriCILLATA. (Lath.) 



Young in various stages of plumage also adult male and female, 

 from Brazil, Nicaragua and Jalapa, Mexico. There is also a spec- 

 imen from Peru which seems to differ from any described phase of 

 this species. It is uniform chocolate brown above, lighter than per- 

 spicillata and showing a tendency to darker coloration on the head, 

 the breast and throat are chocolate uniform with the back, the 

 white being confined to a spot on the chin, the rest of the under sur- 

 face is fulvous, the white spots on the wing coverts are much less 

 marked than in perspicillata and are suffused with fulvous. Mr. 

 Ridgway, whom I consulted about this specimen, writes me that there 

 is in the National Museum " one specimen with no white whatever 

 on the chin, while a large majority have no trace of white or light 

 colored markings on the Aving coverts." I think it probable, there- 

 fore, considering the variation in this group, that this is merely a 

 phase of perspicillata rather than a distinct species or race. 



CiCCABA HULULA. (Daud.) 



Several specimens from South America. 

 Cacciba nigrolineata. (Scl.) 



Jalapa, Mexico, from the D'Oca collection. 



CiCCABA VIRGATA. (CaSS.) 



Specimens from Mexico, Cayenne, Bogota and Trinidad, Some 

 of the South American specimens are in all jirobability Mr. Cassin's 

 types, but there are no data to show wdiich they are. 

 CiCCABA SUPERCILANS. (Peltz.) Brazil. 



CiCCABA ALBOGULARIS. (CaSS.) 



Several specimens from South America including the types of the 

 species. 

 CiCCABA HYLOPHILA. (Temm.) Columbia and Brazil. 



[The species of the old genus Syrnium form a very perplexing 

 group when a subdivision is attempted. The northern genus Sco- 

 tiaptex is easily separable ; then there are the typical Syrniums from 

 the more northern portions of both continents, the species varying 

 more and more from the type as they go south. I have followed 

 Sclater and Salvin in grouping the South American naked-toed spe- 

 cies together in the genus Ciccaba. The African forms seem to 

 vary in much the same way, but for convenience I have left them 

 as well as all the other old world species in the genus Syrnium. 

 The synonymy of the generic names which have been applied to 

 these species seems to be considerably involved.] 



