288 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



240. Synallaxis fuscorufa Sclater. 



Synallaxis fusco-rufa Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, 578, pi. 13, 

 fig. 1 (San Sebastian; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus. ; crit.). — 

 Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. f. Orn., XXXII, 1884, 387 (reprint orig. 

 descr.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 53 (San Sebastian).— 

 Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 177 (San Miguel; crit.). — 

 Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 1899, 79 (San Sebastian and El 

 Mamon). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 159 (Sclater's 

 and Bangs' references). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1900, 198 (Santa Marta 

 [region], in range; ref. orig. descr.). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S 

 Am., I, 1912, 231 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Additional records: Chirua, Macotama (Brown). 



Thirty specimens: San Lorenzo, Pueblo Viejo, Cerro de Caracas, 

 Macotama, Paramo de Mamarongo, San Miguel, and Heights of 

 Chirua. 



In adults of this handsome species the wings and tail are deep cin- 

 namon rufous or hazel, with the pileum and nape paler; the under 

 parts are ochraceous tawny, lightening into clay-color posteriorly; and 

 the back is dark olive gray. Young birds (of which there are several 

 specimens, shot in June and July), on the contrary, have the cinnamon 

 rufous pileum merely indicated, usually by a rufescent posterior mar- 

 gin, while the under parts are tawny olive, palest posteriorly, with 

 faint indications of barring. Both adults and young have the inner 

 webs of the rectrices toward the tips dusky brownish. One albinistic 

 adult has numerous white feathers in the body-plumage. 



The type of this Synallaxis was taken by Simons at San Sebastian, 

 on the south slope of the Sierra Nevada, where later Mr. Brown se- 

 cured additional specimens, as well as at El Mamon and San Miguel. 

 In the vicinity of this latter place and Chirua it was probably the most 

 abundant species of its family, according to the experience of the 

 writer. It is restricted to the Santa Marta region, where it is essen- 

 tially a species of the Subtropical Zone, ranging between 2,500 and 

 9,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada, and from 7,000 feet upwards in the 

 San Lorenzo. It is almost entirely confined to the open, preferring 

 bushes and shrubbery and tangled thickets. It is tame and easily ap- 

 proached. 



241. Acrorchilus hellmayri (Bangs). 



Synallaxis antisiensis (not of Sclater) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 170 

 (Santa Marta region; crit.). 



