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DENDROCOLAPTID^ . 



p. 102 (Ecuador), et 1874, p. 8 ; Tacz. P.Z. S. 1874, p. 527 (C. 

 Peru) ; id. Oni. Per. ii. p. 124 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 419 (Brit. 

 Guiaii.). 



Above brownish cinereous ; front, cap, and wings externally 

 chestnut-red ; tail brownish rufous : beneath dark cinereous ; flanks 

 and crissum more brownish ; bill strong ; feet thick ; tail rather 

 short : wliole length G inches, wing 2-4, tail 3. Female similar. 



Ilab. Amazonia and British Guiana. 



«. Jr. sk. Zamora, Ecuador (i^/-«ser). Sclater Coll. 



b, c.(S 2 ad. ; Roraima, British Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



<?. cJjr. ; e,f. {Whitely). 



2 jr. sk. 



g, h. (S ad. ; i. Roraima, British Guiana Sclater Coll. 



2ad.;y.c? {Whitely). 



jr. sk. 



Sect. II. Cap and wing-coverts bright rufous ; tail brown like 

 the back. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Front red like the cap 7. ejnxi, p. 42. 



B. Front cinereous or brown, different from 



the cap. 



a. Under surface mainly white 8. albescens, p. 43. 



b. Under surface mainly cinereous. 

 a'. Beneath pale cinereous. 



I Tail short, broad 9. hypospadia, p. 44. 



I Tail elongated 10. subpudica, p. 45. 



b'. Beneath dark cinereous 11. pudica, p. 45. 



7. Synallaxis spixi. 



Parulus ruficeps, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 85, pi. 86. fig. 1. 



Synallaxis ruficapilla, Reichb. Ilandb. p. 158. 



Synallaxis spixi, Sclater, F. Z. »S'. 1856, p. 98 (Brazil), 1859, pp. 192, 



196 (Brazil), et 1874, p. 9; id. Cat. A. B. p. 151; Pelzeln, Sitz. 



Akad. Wien, xxxiv. p. 117 ; id. Orn. Bras. p. 35; Peinli. Fuglef. 



Bras. Camp. p. 193 ; Biirm. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 636 (rep. Arg.) ; Sel. 



et Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 632 (rep. Arg.) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 63; 



Bm-l. J. f. O. 1887, p. 132 (Paraguay) ; Scl. et Huds. Ary. Orn. 



i. p. 179. 

 Synallaxis albescens, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 39 ; Cab. et Ilein. Mus. 



Heiii. ii. p. 27. 



Above mouse-brown ; front, cap, and external margins of wing- 

 coverts bright rufous : tail like the back : beneath cinereous, middle 

 of belly paler ; flanks and crissum brownish : whole length 6-5 

 inches, wing 2-1, tail 3-5. 



Hah. Southern Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, and N. Argentina. 



This species is distinguished from all the rest of this section by 

 the red cap being extended over the front. It appears to be the 

 bird figured by Spix as the male of his Parulus ruficeps. 



