14= STITALLAXIS. 3/ 



4. Leptasthenura fuliginiceps. 



Synallaxis fulir^uiceps, Lafr. etcVOrb. Syn. i. p. 23; d'Orh. Voy. Ois. 



p. 342, pi. 17. fig. 1 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 212 ; Biirm. La-Plata Rvise, 



ii. p. 400 ; id. J. f. O. 1860, p. 250 (rep. Arg.). 

 Leptasthenura parauensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 377 (rep. Arg.). 

 Leptasthenura fuliginiceps, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 03 ; iid. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 020 (Bolivia) ; Wkite, P. Z. S'. 1882, p. 611 (rep. Arg.) ; 



Scl. et Hudson, Arg. Orn. i. p. 177; £erl. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 132 



(Paraguay). 



Above palo earthy brown ; forehead and slightly crested crown 

 rufous-brown ; wings blackish, edges of outer webs of all the wing- 

 feathers and basal part of the secondaries chestnut ; tail chestnut- 

 brown : beneath paler, of a uniform smoky brown ; bill and feet 

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



Rab. Bolivia and N. Argentina. 



a. Ad. sk. Parana, rep. Arg. {Burmeistev). Sclater Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Parana, rep. Arg. (Burmeister.) Salvin-CTodiuan Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Mendoza, rep. Arg. {Weisshaupt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. § ad. sk. Sierra de Totoral, Catamarca, Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



rep. Arg. (TF/u'te). 

 e,f. Ad.sk. Tilotilo, Yungas, Bolivia (i?McZ;- Salvin-Godman Coll, 



ley), 

 g. Ad. sk. Int. of Bolivia {Bridges). Eyton Coll. 



14. SYNALLAXIS*. 



Synallaxis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. xxxii. p. 309 Type._ 



nsiO) S. ruficapilla. 



Anabates,' Temm. Man. cVOm. i. p. Ixxxii (1820) . . S. guianensis. 



Parulus, Spi.v, Av. Bras. i. p. 85 (1824) S. spixi. 



Leptoxyura, Reichenh. Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 170 (1853) S. ruficauda. 



Melanopareia, Reichenb. op. cit. p. 104 (1853) S. maximihaui. 



The area occupied by this genus is nearly that of the whole Neo- 

 tropical Eegion from Southern Mexico to the Argentine l^cpublic. 

 In Mexico and Central America generally but one species is found, 

 S. enjthrothorax. It is not until we arrive at Costa Eica and 

 Veragua that we meet with others, aS. albescens and S. enjthrops, 

 intruders from the South, and S. riif;/enis, an apparently endemic 

 species. In the Colombian and Peruvian Andes fSynnlkLvis appears 



* The following species referred to this genus are unknown to mc :— 



1 Si/nalla.ris leuroccphalus, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. i. p. 24 ; d'Orb. Voy., Ois. 



p. 244 ; Scl. P.Z. S. 1874, p. 26. (Patagonia, no specimens obtained.) 



2. Synalla.i-is troghdytoidcx, d'Orb. Toy. Ois. p. 238 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, 



