Species of the Family Pteroptochidae. 205 



bula inferiore ad basin flavida : long, tota 8'0, alae 3'8, 



caudae 3 2. 

 Hab. Columbia int. et rep. Equator. 

 Mus. P. L. S. 



Genus 8. Triptorhinus. 



Triptorhinus, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. Jahrg. x.i. p. 219 (1847). 



This type is perhaps more like Scytalopus in general ap- 

 pearance, but has, although to a lesser degree, the same curi- 

 ous development of the culmen. The hind claw is moderately 

 long and curved. 



1. Triptorhinus paradoxus. 



Troglodytes paradoxus, Kittl. Mem. pres. Acad. St. Pet. 

 1831, p. 184, pi. V. 



Malacorhynchus chilensis, Menetr. Mon. des Myiotheres, 

 p. 85. 



Platyurus lepturus, Sw. Class, ii. p. 319. 

 Leptonyx paradoxus, D'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 197. 

 Triptorhinus paradoxus, Cab. Orn. Not. p. 219 : Bp. Consp. 

 p. 205 j Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 20; Scl. et Salv. 

 Nomencl. p. 77. 



Merulaxis paradoxus, Lafr. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 146. 

 Pteroptochus paradoxus, Gay, Faun. Chil. p. 305. 

 Scytalopus magellanicus, Ph. et Landb. Gat. Av. Chil. 

 p. 14. 



Schistaceus, subtus paulo dilutior : uropygio ventre imo et 

 crisso rufis : rostro nigro, mandibula inferiore ad basin 

 flavida : pedibus flavicanti-corylinis : long, tota 5*0, alse 

 2"4, caudae r8. Fern, mari similis. Jun. Fuscus, fasciis 

 transversis rufescentibus : subtus magis ochraceus nigro 

 transfasciatus et punctatus. 

 Hab. Chilia merid., Valdivia {Landbeck) . 



Appendix of Doubtful Species. 



(1.) Sylviaxis guttatus. Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 274, is 

 apparently founded upon the young of some species of Scyta- 

 lopus. No locality is given. 



(2.) Scytalopus femoralis, Tsch. Faun. Per. Aves, p. 182. 



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