BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 191 



S[ynallaxis] erythroihorax Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 192 



(s. Mexico; Guatemala). 

 [Synallaxis] erythroihorax Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 168, no. 2228. — Sclater and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 63.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 57. 

 Synallaxis erytrothorax Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, 1878, 37 (Guatemala). 

 Synallaxis cinerascens (not of Temminck) Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1837, 118 (Guatemala). 



SYNALLAXIS PUDICA PUDICA Sclater. 



SLATY SYNALLAXIS. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead, sides of head (inchiding loral, 

 superciliary, auricular, suborbital and malar regions) and sides of 

 neck plain dull slate color or dark mouse gray, the first rather darker 

 and slightly tinged with bro^^^lisll ; whole crown and occiput deep 

 cmnamon-rufous or reddish chestnut; hindneck, back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts plain olive, grayer on hindneck, more 

 strongly olive posteriorly; tail olive-brown or warm-sepia, the shafts 

 of rectrices black; wings bright cinnamon-rufous or rufous-chestnut, 

 the terminal portion of remiges (extensively) and wdiole of tertials 

 deep olive-brown or sepia, the outermost primaries also mostly of this 

 color; underparts mostly plain dull slate color or dark mouse gray, 

 paler posteriorly, where strongly tinged with olive on flanks and 

 under tail-coverts, the chin and upper throat narrowly streaked 

 with white; in certain lights, a darker spot at junction of lower throat 

 and chest; under wing-coverts light ochraceous-rufous, paler and 

 duller on under primary-coverts; inner webs of remiges (except out- 

 ermost primaries) broadly edged with vinaceous-cinnamon for basal 

 half (approximately) ; maxilla blackish horn color, mandible light 

 grayish horn color; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn color (in 

 dried skins). Length (skins), 148-164 (155); wing, 55-60 (57.8); 

 tail, 67.5-75 (71); culmen, 14.5-16 (15.2); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); 

 middle toe, 15-16.5 (15.9) .« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 151; wing, 55-55.5 (55.2); tail, 

 65-67 (66); culmen, 14-15 (14.5); tarsus, 21; middle toe, 15-15.5 

 (15.2). '> 



Eastern Panama (Lion Hill; Panama) and southward through 

 Colombia (Bogota; Remedios, Antioquia) to Ecuador (Babahoyo; 

 Nanegal; Esmeraldas; Chimbo; Cayandeled; Yaguachi; Paramba; 

 Foreste del Rio Peripa).*^ 



« Five specimens, from Panamd. 

 ^ Two specimens, from Panama. 



c The birds of this species from western Ecuador may be different from true S, 

 pudica of Colombia, but I am unable to compare specimens. 



