Species of the Family Pteroptochidae. 193 



1. SCYTALOPUS MAGELLANICUS. 



Sylvia magellanica, Lath. Ind, Orn. ii. p. 528. 



Scytalopus magellanicus, Darwin, Voy, Beagle, Zool. iii. 

 p. 74; Gray, Faun. Chil. i. p. 307; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 385; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1868, p. 187, et Nomencl. 

 p. 7Q. 



Scytalopus fuscus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 89; Jard. et 

 Selb. 111. Orn. n. s. pi. 12; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 116, 

 pi. 77 ; Bridges, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 94 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. 

 p. 68. 



Platyurus niger, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 323 ; Pucli. Voy. au 

 Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 91, Atlas, pi. 19. fig.^i: 6"" 



Scytalopus fuscus et S. niger, Bp. Consp. p. 206. / 



Pteroptochus albifrons, Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1857, p. 273. 



Scytalopus albifrons, Ph. et Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 15. 

 Nigro-plumbeus unicolor : verticis plumis interdum albo ter- 

 niinatis : rostro nigro : pedibus corylinis : long, tota 4*4, 

 alse 2*2, caudae 1'5. 



Hab. Chilia et fr. Magellan. : Valdivia {Landbeck)-, ins. 

 Chiloe, Chonos arch., Port Famine, et ins. Falklandicse 

 {Darwin) ; Ecuador {Mus. P.L.S.). 



Mus. P. L. S. 



I have three Chilian skins of this bird, and two from 

 Ecuador which I cannot distinguish except in the legs being 

 rather darker. One of my Chilian skins was received from 

 Landbeck as his Pteroptochus albifrons. But the white ter- 

 minations of the head-feathers, which are very slight, are, in 

 my opinion, only sexual^ and perhaps seasonal. 



I have not seen the young of this species ; but it probably 

 has a brown plumage, as in other species of the genus. 



2. Scytalopus spelunc^e. 



Malacorhynchus speluncce, Men. Mem. Acad. St. -Pet. ser. 6, 

 Sc. Math, et Phys. t. iii. pt. 2, p. 527, pi. 13. fig. 1 ; Lafr. 

 Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 148. 



Suprk cserulescenti-miirinus ; subtiis pallidior ; gutture, collo 

 pectoreque albo-cinereis : alis caudaque fusco-nigri- 

 cantibus: long, tota 4*5, caudae 2*0, tarsi 0'9. {Mene- 

 tries, I. c). 



