15. SIPT0ENI8. 67 



Above mouse-brown, indistinct superciliaries whitish ; wings 

 blackish, with a transverse fulvons band across the bases of the 

 remiges on their inner webs : tail black, outer rectrices tipped and 

 margined with fulvous : beneath pale cinereous, with au ochraceous 

 tinge, guttural spot pale rufous : whole length 6 inches, wing 2-3, 

 tail 2-5. Female similar. 



Hah. Chili, Argentina, and N. Patagonia. 



a. Ad. sk. Chili {Reed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Chili (Reed). Sclater CoU. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



e,f. (S ad. sk. Pampas of the Argentine Re- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



pubUe (Lei/bold). 

 g. (S ad. sk. Mendoza, Arg. Kep. ( Weiss- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



haupt). 

 h. Ad. sk. Mendoza, Arg. Eep. {Bur- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



vieister). 

 i,j. 6 2 ad.sk. Rio Negro, Patagonia {Hud- Sclater Coll. 



.so;/) . 

 h, I. Ad. sk. Bolivia (?). Eyton Coll. 



(Tvpes of the species.) 

 t. Bridges I""' ^ 

 n. Ad. St. Bolivia (?;. T. Bridges ] 



m. Ad. sk. Bolivia (.=). t. Bridges [C.]. 



,to.j. 



18. Siptornis htunilis. 



Synallaxis humilis, Cab. J.f. O. 1873, p. 319 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 

 p. 64; Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 23; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 527 

 (C. Peru) ; id. Oni. Per. ii. p. 138. 



Above brown ; wings and tail blackish brown edged with brown ; 

 lateral rectrices paler in the centre and tinged with rufous ; long 

 superciliaries, sides of head, and throat white with brown striations : 

 beneath ochraceous white, guttural spot rufous ; under wing-coverts 

 and blotch at the base of the wiug-feathers rufous ; bill rather long 

 and straight : whole length 6 inches, wing 2-8, tail 2-Q. 



Hah. Western Peru and Bolivia. 



Like S. modesta, but without the rufous tips to the external 

 rectrices, the bill stronger, and superciliaries different. 



a. Ad. St. Bolivia (imp. spec). T. Bridges [C.]. 



19. Siptornis pudibunda. 



Synallaxis pudibunda, Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 445, pi. Iviii. fitr. 1 

 (Peru); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 627 (C. Peru); id. Orn. Per. ii. 

 p. 142. 



I have examined the single specimen of this species, which, 

 however, seems quite distinct from any of those that I am ac- 

 quainted with. It belongs to the section with twelve rectrices, and 

 will stand best, I think, near S. modesta and its allies, having a 

 pale fawn-coloured gular patch, rouud which, on the sides of the 

 face and neck, are indistinct blackish freckles. There is a pale 

 superciliary stripe, but very indistinct. The wings externally and 



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