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Key to the Species. 



A. Snieiller : bill shorter; middle rectrices fulvous. 1. spinicauda,'^.'iO. 



B. Laig-er : bill longer ; middle rectrices partly 



blackish 2. mamfuerce, p. 30. 



1. Oxyurus spinicauda. 



Motanilla spinicauda, Gyn. S. N. i. p. 978 ; Lath. G. H. vii. pi. 107. 

 Motaeilla seticauda, Forst. Descr. An. p. 328. 

 Oxyurus ornatus, Siv. An. in Menag. p. 324. 

 Oxyurus australis, Sm. N. H. Birds, ii. p. 313. 

 Synallaxis tupinieri, Less. Voy. Coq., ZuoL pi. 29. fig. 1. 

 Oxvurusspinieanda, Bp. Consj). i. p. 212 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 149 ; id. 



P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 324 (Chili) ; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1868, p. 187 (Str. 



Magellan) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 62 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 433 ; Cab. et 



Eeich. J.f. 0. 1876, p. 323 (,Str. Magellan) ; Salv. Cat. Strick. Coll. 



p. 3-34. 

 Sjnallaxis spinicauda, Gay, Faun. Chil., Aves, p. 292 ; Fraser, 



P. Z. S. 1843, p. 112 (Chili) ; PhiUppi, An. Univ. Chil. xxxi. p. 253. 



Above pale brown : head black, with broad superciliary stripes of 

 pale fulvous over each eye ; rump bright rufous ; wings blackish, 

 secondaries edged externally with white, and crossed at the base by 

 a bright rufous band ; lateral rectrices rufous, crossed obliquely by 

 a broad black baud ; central rectrices pale rutbus ; ends of all rec- 

 trices denuded and slightly spiny : beneath white ; flanks and cris- 

 sum dusky ; bill black, yellowish at the base ; feet brown : whole 

 length 6 inches, wing 2-4, tail 3. Female similar. 



I[ab, Chili and Patagonia. 



a. Ad. sk. Chili (Philippi). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Santiago, Chili {Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Chili {Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Chili (Peed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 g. Ad. sk. Falkland Island.s. The Admiralty [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Port Eio Frio. Patagonia. Dr. Coppiuger [C.]. 

 i. Ad. St. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.J. 



J. Ad. sk. Trinidad Channel, Magellan Straits. Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 



A;. 2 ad. sk. Porto Bueno, Magellan Straits. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



/. (S ad. sk. Port Churrincha, Magellan Straits. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



m. 5 ad. sk. Port Otway, Magellan Straits. ' Challenger ' Exped. 



n. Ad.sk. Straits of Magellan. Burnett & Fitzroy 



[P.]. 



0, p. Ad. sk. Hermit Island, Tierra del Fuego. The Admiralty [P.]. 



2. Oxyurus masafuerse. 



Synallaxis masafuerse, Ph. et Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1866, pt. i. p. 127 ; 



Philippi, An. Univ. Chil. xxxi. p. 253. 

 Oxyurus masafuera, Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 180, pi. vii. fig. 2 (Masafuera) ; 



Reed, Ibis, 1874, p. 84 (Juan Fernandez); Salv. Ibis, 1875, pp.370, 



376 (Masafuera). 



