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3. Note on Buglodytes albicilius, Bp. 

 By Philip Lutley Sclater. 



Prince Bonaparte, in his " Notės Ornithologiąues sur les collec- 

 tions rapportėes par M. A. Delattre,^' read before the French 

 Academy in 1853, has iustituted a new genus, Buglodytes, allied to 

 Campylorhynchus, Spix, and described but one species as belonging 

 to it under the title of B. albicilius. 



Having had an opportunity of examining this type (which is now 

 in the British Museum), I have to statė, that I beheve that it 

 is the šame bird as was long ago named by Mr. Svvainson " Fur- 

 narius griseus,'' and is the type of Cabanis' genus Heleodytes. It 

 has, however, nothing to do with Furnarius, and seems, as Prince 

 Bonaparte has remarked, intermediate between Campylorhynchus 

 and Donacobius. These forms appear to connect the American 

 Mimince very closely with the Vrens, and to render the position of 

 the former group among the true Thrushes rather doubtful. The 

 synonymy oi Buglodytes albicilius will stand as follows — 



Furnarius griseus, Sw. An. in Men. p. 325. 



Campylorhynchus griseus, Schomb. Reise in Brit. Guian. iii. 

 p. 674. 



Heleodytes griseus, Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 80 ; G. R. Gray, List of 

 Gen. and Subgen. p. 26, no. 404. 



Buglodytes albicilius, Bp. Notės Orn. p. 26 ; G. R. Gray, List 

 of Gen. and Subgen. p. 32, no. 499. 



My specimen of this bird is from Trinidad. Schomburgk's were 

 coUected in British Guiana. The examples upon which the name 

 Buglodytes albicilius was founded were obtained by MM. Verreaux's 

 collector in the vicinity of Santa Martha, on the north coast of Ne\v 

 Grenada. 



From Trinidad also I possess a bird which seems to be the 

 Heleodytes minor of Cabanis. It is so similar to Heleodytes griseus 

 in every respect except in size, that I ąuestion whether it may not 

 be a variety of age or sex of that species. 



4. On some New or Imperfectly-knoavn Species of 

 Synallaxis. By Philip Lutley Sclater. 



1. Synallaxis ruficapilla. 



Synallaxis rufcapilla, Vieill. N. D. d'H, N. xxxii. p. 810 ; Enc. 

 Meth. p. 622 ; Gal. Ois. pi. 174. 



Sphenura ruficeps, Licht. Doubl. p. 42. 



Synallaxis cinereus, Max. Beitr. iii. 685. 



Synallaxis olivascens, Eyton, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 150. 



Olivascenti-brunnea, pileo toto cum nucha, alis extus et cauda 

 rufis : striga superciliari Jlavida : loris et regione auriculari 



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