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28. CINNICERTHIA. ^ 



Type. 



Cinnicerthia, Lesson, Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 286 (1847) C. uuirufa. 



Presbvs, Cah. Miis. Ileii). Th. i. p. 80 (1850) C. unirufa. 



Thelvdrias, Beichenb. Sijd. Av. (^1853, teste Grai/). 



Head of Cinnicerthia unirufa. 

 Range. Confined to South America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Quills almost uniform below, not distinctly 

 barred. 

 a'. General colour ligbt cliestnut or bay ; the 

 flanks of the same bay-colour as the 



tack tininifa, p. 182. 



b'. General colour rufous-brown above; lower 

 flanks and thighs dusky brown, more 



dingy than the upper surface unihrunnea, p. 183. 



h. Quills distinctly barred below on both webs ; 



head, neck^ and imderp^rts olive-brown . . oUvascens, p. 184. 



1. Cinnicerthia unirufa. 

 Limnomis nninifus, Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1840, p. 105; Graij, Gen. B.'i. 



p. 134; B}}. Consp. i. p. 215. 

 Limnornis canifrons, Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1840, p. 105 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 134; Bp. Consp. i. ^. 215. 

 Cinnicerthia unicclor. Less. Descr. Mcnnm. et Ois. p. 286 (1847). 

 Limnornis cinnamomea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 215. 

 Presbys canifrons, Cab. Miis. Hein. Th. i. p. 80. 

 Cinnicerthia uuirufa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 143 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 18 ; Sel. (§• Salv. Komencl. Av. Neotr. p. 6. 

 Cyphorhinus nnirufus, Grat/, Hand-1. B. i. p. 194, no. 2676. 

 C^-phorhinus canifrons. Gray, torn. tit. p. 194, no. 2677. 



Adult. General colour above light rufous or baj', paler on the 

 hind neck, and deepening towards the lower back and rump ; fore- 

 head hoary grey, paling off on the nape ; wing-coverts rather darker 

 rufous than the back, as also the external aspect of the quills, 

 ■which are dusky brown on the inner webs, with a few indistinct 

 dusky bars towards the tips of the outer webs of the primaries and 

 on both webs of the secondaries ; tail-feathers bay, with faint indi- 

 cations of dusky cross bars ; lores and feathers in front of the eye 

 blackish ; ear-coverts very pale rufous ; fore part of cheeks and chin 



