192 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(?) Sijnallaxis hrachyura Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1843, 290 (Colombia; types no-w- 

 in coll. Boston Soc. N. H.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 141 

 (Bogota, Colombia); 1874, 26 (Bogota, Colombia; crit.). — Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 

 322 (crit.). 



Synallaxis pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 191 (Bogotd, Colombia; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater); 1860, 88 (Nanegal,w. Ecuad6r), 278 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuad6r; 

 crit.), 294 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador; crit.); 1874, 10, part (monogr.); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 151 (Bogota; Nanegal and Babahoyo, \v. Ecuad6r); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, part. — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1864, 354 (Panamd; crit.); 1879, 521 (Remedies, Antioquia, Colombia; 

 descr. eggs). — Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 

 560 (Chimbo, -w". Ecuador; crit.); 1884, 298 (CayandelM, w. Ecuaddr, 4,000 

 ft.). — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 94 

 (Yaguachi, Ecuador). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 490 (Chimbo and 

 Paramba, n. w. Ecuador; crit.). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., 

 etc., Torino, xv, 1899, no. 362, 19 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuador). — 

 Bangs, Proc. Ne-w Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 26 (Loma del Leon, Panamd). 



S[ynallaxis] pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 192 (Colombia). 



[Synallaxis] pudica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 63, part. — 

 Sharpe. Hand-list, iii, 1901, 55, part (Panama; Colombia; Ecuador). 



Synallaxis brunneicaudalis (not of Sclater) La-wrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 

 319 (Lion Hill, Panama). 



SYNALLAXIS PUDICA NIGRIFUMOSA (Lawrence). 



SOOTY SYNALLAXIS. 



Similar to S. p. piulica but coloration decitledly darker, the tail 

 very dark sooty brown or broAniisli black, back, etc., deep sepia 

 brown, slate color of anterior under parts decidedly darker, and 

 rufous-chestnut of pileum and Anngs deeper. 



Young."- — Above, including whole pileum, deep olive-bro\\'n, the 

 wings, however, mostly rufescent but the color either duller or more 

 tawny tlian in adults; tail dark sooty bro^v^l (as in adults) ; chin and 

 upper throat dull yellomsh wliite or pale yellowish gray, the lower 

 throat dark yellowish gray or oHve-gray ; rest of under parts light olive 

 or grayish olive, paling into pale yellowish gray on abdomen, and 

 changing into olive-brown or brownish olive on sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 135-158 (150); %ving, 52.5-62 (56.4); 

 tail, 61.5-72.5 (69.6); culmen, 14-15.5 (14.6); tarsus, 20-22 (20.9); 

 middle toe, 15-16 (15.3).^ 



a I have not been able to examine the young of S. p. pudica. 

 6 Fifteen specimens. 



