1. SCYXALOl'US. 341 



colour; feet pale brovirn : whole length \-h inches, wing 2-4, tail 1"7. 

 Female (apparently) similar. Young. Above rusty brown, with 

 numerous narrow undulated black cross bands : beneath paler, 

 similarly banded, but bands obsolete on throat and chest. 

 Jfab. Highlands of Colombia and Venezuela. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Scytalopus sylvestris. 



Scvtalopus sylvestris, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 138, 531 (C. Peru) ; 

 'id. Orn. Ph: i. p. 631; Scl. Ibis, 1874, p. 195 (C. Peru) ; Scl. et 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 626 (BoHvia). 



Above dark grej- ; rump, wings, and tail brownish ; outer secon- 

 daries and rump crossed by numerous black bars : beneath rather 

 lighter; flank.s and crissum brown, with narrow black cross bars; 

 bill horn-colour ; feet light brown : whole length 4*5 inches, 

 wing 2-1, tail 1-3. 



Bab. BoliN-ia, Peru, and Colombia. 



The Bolivian specimen of this species is not very satisfactory, and 

 may be only a young example of Sci/faloims analis. It has, how- 

 ever, been examined and recognized by Taczanowski. 



a. Ad. sk. Yuugas, Bolivia {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



7. Scytalopus indigoticus. 



Myiotbera indigotica. Max. Beitr. iii. p. 1091. 



Malacorhynchus indigoticus, Menetr. Mem. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb. s€v. vi. 



{Sci. Nat.) i. p. oi'O. 

 Scytalopus inditjoticus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 200 ; Cab. et Hein. Mas. 



Hein. ii. p. 20; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 168; id. Ibis, 1874, p. 195 



(Brazil) ; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 46; Scl. et Salv. Nommcl. p. 76. 

 Malacorhvnchus albiventris, Menetr. Mem. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb. ser. vi. 



(Sci. Nat.) i. p. 525, pi. 13. fig. 2 (1835). 

 Scytalopus albogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 90 (Brazil). 

 Scytalopus albiventris, Jard. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 118, pi. 76. fig. 2. 

 Scytalopus undulatus, Jard. et SeW. 111. Orn. u. s. sub tabb. xix. et 



XX. ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 117, pi. 76. fig. 1. 



Above dark plumbeous ; feathers of lower back and rump very 

 dense and lengthened, and broadly tipped with rufous : beneath, 

 throat, breast, and middle of belly pure white ; sides of neck and 



