2. OEOSITTA. 



This is a very distinct species, easily known by its white rump 

 and the uniform colour of the remijjes. 



rt. rf ad. sk. 



Juuin, Peru (Jelski). 



Sclater CoU. 

 (Authentic specimen.) 



7. Geositta tenuirostris. 



Certhilauda tenuirostris, d'Orb. et Lufr. Sun. Av. i. p. 72; d'Oib. 



Voy. Ois. p. 359, t. 43. f. 2. 

 Geositta tenuirostris, Burm. J. f. 0. 1860, p. 249 (Buenos Avres) ; 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 18G9, p. 153 (Peru), et 1879, p. 619 (Bolivia) ; 



lid. Nomencl. p. 61 ; Tacs. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 624 (0. Peru), et 1880, 



p. 20 (N. Peru); t'd. Orn. Per. ii. p. 96; White, P.Z.S. 1882, 



p. 609 (rep. Arg.). 



Above sandy brown; lores, eye-region, and superciliaries reddish 

 fulvous ; wing- coverts and outer secondaries blackish, edged with 

 pale sandy buff ; rest of secondaries and inner primaries chestnut- 

 red, with an irregular subapical blackish band ; outer primary 

 hiackish, next three chestnut, edged externally and tipped with 

 blackish ; tail chestnut-red, with a blackish subapical band, which 



Bill of Geositta tenuirostris. 



becomes obsolete on the outer rectrices ; two middle rectrices 

 blackish, tipped with fulvous : beneath buffy white, throat clear 

 white ; breast mottled with brown ; under wing-coverts and inner 

 margins of wing-feathers reddish ochraceous ; bill and feet black, 

 base of lower mandible carneous : whole length 7'4 inches, wino- 

 4*5, tail 2-6, hill from gape 1-4. Female similar. 



Hah. Bolivia and Peru. 



The long curved bill at once distingaishes this species from all the 

 preceding. 



a. c? ad. sk. Tungasuclia, Pern ( Wkiteli/). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Tiuta, Peru ( Tfliifeh/). 



c. cJ ad. sk. Tinta, Peru ( Whiteiii). 



d. 2 ad. sk. Tinta, Peru ( ffliiteii/). 



e. Ad. sk. Bohvia. 



f. Ad. St. Bolivia. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 E.Wilson, Esq. [P.], 

 T. Bridges [C.]. 



