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SAUMNOTKS. 



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TrnijIiKh/fea leuco(]axtra (It'Hcrll)oil by Mr. OoiiM on the sumo i)ttf?e, 

 it is rortainly tlio hiuiu', as the C. hrunneicapillus is the churacU'ristic 

 species uf thut region of Alexieo. 



iuiiipylorliyiicliUH iiiKiicepH, Sci.atbk, P. Z. S. 18C0, 4G1.— lu. 

 Catal. 18, no. 112 (uenr V«ni Crux, Mex.)- 



This spcx'ies has a hhieiv lieud and post-ocular Htripc like capis- 

 Iruliiti ttiiil rufmuvha, but dilTcrs in the black nape Wka jovohuh. Tlie 

 buck is reddish, barred transversely with black. The budy is un- 

 spotted white l)eneath, reddish jxjsteriorly ; the tail feathers black, 

 liarn'tl on the outer webs, and more obsohjtely on the iniu'r web of 

 the lateral, with fulvous, but without the white tips Bceu in the allies. 





C'amiiylorhyncliiiH {(Ularis, Sclatkr, P. Z. S. 1860, 402 (Mexico). 



This is a very short-billed species, closely allied to C. humilis in 

 this respect, as well as in the r"ddisli-brown head. The post-ocular 

 stripe, however, is said to be black, as well as a rictal oiw. The 

 tail is broadly tipped with white. The two lateral tail feathers have 

 large white spots on both webs (not on the outermost only). The 

 under part, except the throat, with rouud black spots ; iu this also 

 dilfering from humilis. 



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8ALPINCTBS, Cab. 



Salpinctea, Car. Wiegiuaun's Arohiv, 1847, i, 323. (Type Troglodytes 

 obsoletus, Say.]" > 



This genus is sufficiently characterized in the " Birds N. Am.," as 

 well as in the general synopsis of the family in the preceding pages, 

 for my present purposes. It is, however, especially peculiar among 

 all its cognate genera by having the usual two continuous plates along 

 the posterior half of the inner and outer faces of the tarsus divided 

 transversely into seven or more smaller plates, with a naked interval 

 between them and the anterior scutelloe. At the upper end of the 

 outer plate these divisions or lines of junction are obsolete, becoming 

 more distinct below, and near the inferior extremity the plates are 

 reduced to oval scales. The plate along the inner face is also divided 

 into two or three plates, sometimes more, usually less distinct than on 

 tiie outer. The posterior edge of the tarsus, instead of being sharp, 

 is usually, though not always, blunted by the bending round of the 

 outer plate. The lateral toes are quite disproportionate in size, the 

 inner with its claw scarcely reaching beyond the end of the second 



