89. idiopsar. 797 



Sycalis ervthronota, Scl. Ibis, 1872, p. 48 ; Tacz. 0>-n. Perou, iii. 



p. 62 (1886). 

 Phrygilus dorsalis, Cab. J. f. 0. 1883, p. 109. 



Adult. General colour above chestnut, including the scapulars ; 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts slaty grey, slightly washed with 

 chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts slaty grey ; median and greater 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, edged with 

 slaty grey, the primaries with hoary whitish, the inner greater 

 coverts and inner secondaries broadly edged with chestnut ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, edged with ashy ; crown of head and hind 

 neck slaty grey; lores ashy whitish; feathers round eye and 

 ear-coverts ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and 

 tbroat whitish ; fore neck and breast ashy grey ; lower breast and 

 abdomen, sides of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts isabelline or 

 creamy white ; thighs browner ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ashy grey, rather hoary towards the ends ; quills below dusky 

 brown, ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total length 6 - 5 inches, 

 culmen 06, wing 3*95, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-95. 



Bab. Tucuman to Andes of Southern Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Cerro Voyo, Tucuman (Schtdz). Salvin-GodmanColl. 



b. Ad. sk. Tucuman (Schulz). Sclater Coll. 



89. IDIOPSAR. 



Type. 

 Idiopsar, Cassin, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1866, p. 414 .... I. bracliyurus. 



Range. Bolivia. 



1. Idiopsar brachyurus. 



Idiopsar brachyurus, Cass. Proc. PhUad. Acad. 1866, p. 414 ; Sclater, 



Ibis, 1884, p. 240, pi. vii. 

 Scolecophagus brachyurus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 39, no. 6543 



(1870). 



Entire plumage of the head and body bluish cinereous or 

 plumbeous, darker on the upper parts, and lighter on the under- 

 parts, nearly white at the base of the under mandible ; quills dark ashy 

 brown, primaries edged externally with light ashy, nearly white ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, nearly black, edged with light ashy. 

 Lower abdomen or ventral region light ashy, nearly white. Bill dark 

 horn-colour, under mandible lighter, especially at the base. Tarsi 

 and toes light brown. Total length about 7£ inches, wing 4, tail 2f , 

 bill 1. (Cassin.) 



Bab. La Paz, Bolivia. 



