62 DENBEOCOLAPTIB^. 



Sect. II. Cap like the back, but more or less striated ; wiugs or 

 wing-coverts externally and tail rufous. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Beneath pale olive-brown. 



I Primaries edged with rufous 8. suhcristata, p. 62. 



I Primai'ies not edged with nrfous 9. ruticiHu, p. (52. 



B. Beneath white. 



i Head slightly striated ; edges of secondaries 

 brown . .' 10. striaticeps, p. 63. 

 Head definitely striated ; edges of second- 

 aries rufous " 11. rufijjennis, p. 63. 



8. Siptornis subcristata. (Plate IV.) 



Synallaxis inornata, Scl. et Sah. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 1G7 (Venezuela) 



(err.). 

 Synallaxis subcristata, Scl P. Z. S. 1874, p. 20, pi. iv. fig. 1 ; Scl. et 



Sale. Nometicl. p. 64. 



Above olive-brown ; head slightly crested, rather darker ; wings 

 externally and tail bright rufous : beneath paler ; under wing-coverts 

 cinnamomeous : whole length 5-8 inches, wing 2-1, tail 2-7. 



Hah. Venezuela. 



The nearest ally of the present bird is S. ruticiUa, from which it 

 may be distinguished by the want or very slight indication of the 

 white eyebrows, by the red colour of the wings extending over the 

 out«r edges of the primaries aud secondaries, by the crested head, 

 and by the stronger bill. 



a. cJ ad.sk. Caracas, Venezuela (Goe>'%). Sclater Coll. _ (Type 



of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela. Purchased. 



9. Siptornis ruticilla. 



Sphenura ruticiUa et S. guajacina, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 

 Synallaxis ruticilla, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 27 (1859) ; Scl. et 



Salv. Nomencl. p. 64 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 21. 

 Synallaxis fitis, Pelz. Sits. Ak. Wien, xxxiv. p. 123 (1859) ; id. Orn. 



'Bras. p. 38. 

 Leptoxyura obsoleta, Reichb. Handb. p. 171 (?). 



Above brown ; edges of wing-coverts and whole tail rufous ; lores 

 and long superciliaries white ; front and sides of the head whitish, 

 obscurely striated with brown : beneath ochraceous, middle of throat 

 tin'^ed with yellowish : belly and flanks somewhat cinereous : whole 

 length 5-8 inches, wing 2-2, tail 1-4. 



Hah. S.E. BrazU. 



Hr. V. Pelzeln having sent me for examination one of the types of 

 his S.Jitis, I have little hesitation in associating it with S. ruticilla, 

 of which I have examined the typical examples in the Berlin 

 Museum. 



Hr. V. Pelzeln is probably correct in referring Eeichenbach's 



