20 DEKDKocotArriDj;. 



This species comes nearest to U. rvficauda in colour, but has 

 the whole tail rufous, and the bill shorter. 



a. Ad. 8t. Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.J. 



h, c. Ad. sk. Int. of Bolivia. T. Bridges 1_C.]. (Types of the 



species.) 



7. TJpucerthia Inscinia. 



Ochetorhynchus luscinia, Biirm. J.f. 0. 1860, p. 249; id. La-Plata 



Reise, li. p. 4G4 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 148. 

 Upucerthia luscinia, Scl. et Scdv. Komeiicl. -p. 62; Sah. Ibis, 1880, 



p. 358 (rep. Arg.); White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 610 (rep. Arg.) ; 



Scl. et Huds. Afff. Orn, i. p. 171. 



Above earthy brown : frout, lores, and sides of the head rufous ; 

 wing-feathers at the base rufous, tipped and edged like the back ; 

 lateral tail-feathers dark rufous, centre tail-feathers like the back : 

 beneath pale cinereous, throat white ; flanks and lower belly tinged 

 with rufous ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers 

 rufous ; bill horn-colour, base of the lower mandible pale ; feet 

 brown : whole length 7 inches, wing 3, tail 2'9. Female similar. 



Hah. Western Argentina. 



The red front and sides of the head and white throat are the dis- 

 tinguishing features of this species. 



a. (S ad. sk. Mendoza, Arg. Rep. ( Weiss- Sclater CoU. 



haiqjt). 



b, c. Ad. sk. Mendoza, Arg. Rep. Purchased. 



d. Ad. siv. Mendoza, Arg. Rep. {Bur- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



7)teister). 

 €. (S ad. sk. Pampas of the Argentine Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Rep. (Let/hold). 

 f, g. S ? ad. sk. Catamarca, Arg. Rep. Sclater Coll. 



{White). 

 h. $ ad. sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Arg. Sclater Coll. 



Rep. ( WMte). 

 i. Ad. sk. Bolivia ? Sclater Coll. 



k. S ad. ; /. Ad. Salta, Arg. Rep. H. Durnford [C.]. 



8k. 



8. Upucerthia ruficauda. 



OchetorhjTichus ruficauda, Mei/en, Act. Acad. L. C. xvi. Suppl. p. 81 , 



pi. xi. ; Burin. J. f. O. 1860, p. 248 ; id. La-Plata Beise, ii. p. 463 ; 



Scl. Cat. A.B.J,. 148. 

 Uppucerthia montana, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. ii. p. 22 ; d'Orb. Voy. 



Ois. p. .371, pi 56. f. 1. 

 Cinclodes montanus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 214; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 108. 

 Upucerthia ruficauda, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 62 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 619 (Bolivia) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 398 (N. Chili). 



Above earthy brown, passing into rufous on the rump and wing- 

 coverts ; superciharies whitish ; wings ashy black, margined with 

 rufous, and with a rufous band at the base of the secondaries ; 

 lateral tail-feathers with the inner webs black and the outer deep 



