24. THEIPOPHAGA. 83 



6. Phacelodomus rufipennis. (Plate V.) 

 Phacellodomus rufipennis, &cl. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 33. 



Above reddish earthy brown ; head, rump, -wings, and tail 

 brighter, clear rufous ; lores whitish ; wing-end pale blackish : 

 beneath creamj- white ; breast slightly washed with rufous, and 

 marked with bright shaft^st ripcs ; flanks and crissum pale rufous ; 

 under wing-coverts dark rufous ; bill pale brown, under mandible 

 whiter: feet i)ale brown : whole length 8 inches, wing 2*7, tail 3"7. 



JIab. Bolivia and interior of Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. (Type of 



the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Bolivia {Bridges). Eyton Coll. 



c. Ad. St. Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.]. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. H. Smith). 



24. THRIPOPHAGA. 



Type. 



Thripophaga, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. xiii. pt. i. p. 338 (1847). T. striolata. 



This little group is not very different from Phacelodomus, but has 

 shorter wings and a longer and more graduated tail. It is found 

 in South America from Colombia to Southern Brazil. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Breast striated. 



j Cap striated with rufous 1 . striolata, p. 83. 



) Cap not striated 2. yuttuHgera, p. 84. 



B. Breast not striated. 



a. Front of head rufous. 



( Breast brown 3. eri/throphthalma, p. 84. 



) Breast bright rufous 4. sclateri, p. 84. 



b. Front and head pale ashy brown 5. ftisdceps, p. 85. 



1. Thripophaga striolata. 



Sphenura striolata, Licht. Doiibl. p. 42 (1823). 



Anabates striatus, Spi.v, Av. Bras. i. p. 83. 



Anabates striolatus, Spi.v, Av. Bras. i. pi. 83. fig. 2 ; Temm. PL Col. 



238. fig. 1 ; Ma,v. Beitr. iii. p. 1182. 

 Anabates macrom-us, Max. Beise n. Bras. ii. p. 147. 

 Xenops striolatus, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 318. 

 Xenops ruficollaris, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 101, pi. 36. 

 Thripophaga striolata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 212 ; Bitrm. Syst. TJeb. iii. 



p. 35; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 30; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 15G; 



Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 65. 



Above dark brown, with narrow shaft-stripes of deep rufous on 

 the head and broader shaft-stripes of yellowish rufous on the upper 

 back ; wings blackish, with rufous edgings ; tail uniform pale ferru- 

 ginous : beneath pale brown, breast and belly covered with pale 



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