34 DENDR0C0LAPTIDJ3. 



stripes ; lower back and rninp, also sides of head and neck, light 

 brown ; wings lilackish, mottled with light chestnut on the coverts, 

 and a broad band of the same colour occupying the basal half of the 

 wing-feathers; tail blackish, the two middle feathers brownish 

 grej-, the others slightly tipped with the same colour : beneath 

 white, more or less tinged on the throat, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts with pale brown ; under wing-coverts fulvous ; bill and feet 

 pale horn-colour : whole length 5'8 inches, wing 2-3, tail 1*6. 

 Female similar. 



Bah. Western Peru, Chili, Patagonia, Argentina, Uruguay, and 

 Paraguay. 



a. Ad. st. Maldonado, Uruguay. Burnett & Fitzroy [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Maldonado, Uruguay. Burnett & Fitzroy [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Punta Lara, Buenos Ayres. H. Durnford [C.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. Conchitas, Buenos Ayres Sclater Coll. 



(I£udso7i). 



e. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres. Alan Peel [C.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



y. Ad. sk. Chili. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Lima, Peru {Nation). Sclater Coll. 



2. Phlceocryptes schoenobsenus. 



Phleocryptes schoenoba;mis, Cab. vt llein. Mm. Ilein. ii. p. 26. 



Like P. meIanojf)s, but larger ; bill longer ; above darker ; tips of 

 rectrices olive-brown ; superciliaries cinereous : beneath whitish ; 

 throat more obscure. 



Hab. Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. 



Only known from a specimen in the Museum Heineanum, obtained 

 at Lake Titicaca by Warcewicz. 



13. LEPTASTHENURA*. 



Type. 

 Leptastheuura, Enchvnb. Handb. p. IGO (185.3) .... L. gegitlialoides. 

 Bathmidura, Iteichenb. ibid. p. 16.3 L. setaria. 



This genus is barely separable from some of the forms of Si/nal- 

 la.vis, but has a small, short, straight beak, and the central tail- 

 feathers more pointed and produced than is usual in that group. 

 Its range is from Patagonia and Chili along the Andes to Colombia. 



Eefer also to : — 



(1) Synallaxis setaria, Teinm. PI. Col. 311. fig. 2 (Brazil). 



(2) & striolafa, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 38 (Brazil). 



(3) S. striata, Ph. et Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 18G3, i. p. 119 (Peru). 



(4) Leptasthevura fuscescens, Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H. ii. p. 90 (Bolivia). 



(5) L. fuliginiceps boliviana, Allen, op. cit. p. 91 (Bolivia). 



