86 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CERTAIN DENDROCOLAPTIDjE. [Jail. 17, 



the ear- coverts are not black, and the feathers in the middle of the 

 throat are tipped with white. 



The Smithsonian skin of this species is from Savanilla, collected 

 by Mr. Ashurst. 



2. Anabates ochrol^emus, Tschudi, Faun. Per. Aves, p. 240, 

 tab. xx. fig. 2. 



A typical specimen of this bird received by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution from Neuchatel in exchange enables me to identify this spe- 

 cies with Anabates turdinus of Natterer's MS. (Pelz. Orn. Bras, 

 p. 41). It agrees very nearly with a Nattererian example in my own 

 collection, and with a second specimen in the Smithsonian collection 

 from the Huallaga. Mr. E. Bartlett obtained the same species on 

 the Upper Ucayali (see Scl. et Sal v. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 184). 



This species must therefore now stand as Philydor ochrolcemus 

 (Tsch.). I should remark that I have also one of Tschudi' s original 

 specimens of this species in my own collection (Automolus ochro- 

 lcemus of my C. A. B. p. 158), but had not previously recognized the 

 identity of the two species. 



3. Anabates montanxjs, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 240, tab. xx. fig. 1. 



A typical example of this species acquired from the same source 

 proves its identity with Philydor striaticollis of my American Cata- 

 logue. As the latter MS. name of Lafresnaye was only published 

 by me in 1857, Tschudi again has priority, and the species must 

 stand as Philydor montanus. 



4. Dendrocolaptes chuncotambo, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 241, 

 tab. xxxii. fig. 1. 



"B" 



A typical specimen of this species is likewise in the Smithsonian 

 collection. It is the same as Dendrocolaptes ocellatus of Spix (Av. 

 Bras. i. p. 88). At least it agrees with the specimens now thus de- 

 termined in my own collection, which are four in number, namely : — 



a. Gualaquiza, Ecuador {Fraser) \ =D. palliata, Scl. Cat. A. B. 



b. R. Huallaga {Hawxwell) J p. 164. 



c. Rio Negro (Natt.)=D. ocellata of Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 45. 



d. Xeberos {Bartlett). 



Since I published my catalogue I have compared specimens a, c, 

 and d with the marked types of D. weddelli * in the Paris Museum 

 and found them identical with it, and not with D. palliata, as I had 

 formerly supposed. 



It is with great satisfaction, therefore, that I am able to say that 

 Tschudi's ugly name is merely a useless synonym of Dendrornis 

 ocellata. 



* Des Murs, in Castelnau's Voy. Ois. p. 46. 



