18/-1.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE GENUS SYNALLAXIS. 5 



(1843.) Revue Zoologique, p. 290. Lafresnaye describes five new 

 species of Synallaxis in an article upon new Columbian birds : — S. 

 unirufa, fuliginosa, brachyura, gularis, and cinnamomea. These 

 are all good species except <S. brachyura, which I cannot make out. 

 In 1859 I changed the name cinnamomea to Icemosticta, as there 

 was already a S. cinnamomea (Linn.). 



(1846.) Mr. G. R. Gray gives a list of thirty-five (then) described 

 species of Synallaxis in Gray and Mitchell's ' Genera of Birds.' 



(1847.) Sir W. Jardine describes S. terrestris from Tobago. 

 Ann. N. H. xix. p. 80. 



(1848.) Cabanis, in Schomburgk's ' Reisen in Britisch Guiana' 

 (iii. p. 689), mentions only two Synallaxes, S. ruficauda (i.e. S. 

 cinnamomea) and S. rujicapilla, which is =S. frontalis. 



(1850.) Bonaparte, in his ' Conspectus,' gives a list of thirty-two 

 species of Synallaxis. 



(1850.) Sir W. Jardine (Contr. Orn. p. 82, pi. 56) describes and 

 figures S.Jlammulata from Ecuador. 



(1851.) Eyton describes two new Synallaxes in ■ Contr. to Orn.' 

 p. 150, S, olivascens ( = S. rujicapilla) and S. modesta. 



(1852) Reichenbach, in his ' Handbuch d. Speciellen Ornitho- 

 logie,' gives his account of Synallaxis. Being a mere compilation, 

 with little reference to actual specimens, it is, like the rest of this 

 author's work, replete with gross errors. The true Synallaxes are 

 scattered amongst the (so-called) genera Synallaxis, Leptasthenura, 

 Bathmidura, Melanopareia, Cranioleuca, Asthenes, Leptoxyura, and 

 Siptornis. In the middle of these are placed the Australian Ortho- 

 nyx and the Clitonyx (sive Mohoua) of New Zealand! The new 

 species described are Leptoxyura semicinerea and Bathmidura 

 (Forbignii, both which (specific) names are adopted here. 



(1854.) Burmeister gives an account of the Brazilian Synallaxes in 

 his ' Syst. Uebersicht d. Thiere Brasiliens.' Two species of Melano- 

 paria and eight of Synallaxis are given ; but several of these were 

 not met with by the author personally. 



(1855.) P. Z. S. p. 75. I describe S. erythrothorax from Central- 

 American skins. 



(1856.) Ann. N. H. xvii. p. 466. I describe S. castanea from 

 Venezuela. 



( 1856.) Burmeister, in his * Syst. Uebersicht d. Thiere Brasiliens ' 

 (vol. iii. p. 37 et seq.), gives an account of the S.E. Brazilian 

 species, but introduces S. maximiliani, which does not occur in 

 Brazil, referring it and its near ally S. torquata to Melanopareia, 

 Reich. The species met with by Burmeister himself appear to have 

 been only S. torquata, S. spixi (sub nom. S. albescens), S. pallida, 

 and S. cinnamomea (called S. mentalis). These, however, are not 

 very clearly distinguished in every case. 



(1856.) P. Z. S. pp. 25, 97. I describe four new species of Syn- 

 allaxis — S. eleyans, S. mcesta, S. spixi, and $. caniceps. Of these, 

 S. elegans=S. frontalis, v. Pelzeln. 



(1857.) P. Z. S. p. 273. I describe S. multostriata from speci- 

 mens in the Jardin des Plantes. But this = S.Jlammulata, Jardine. 



