840 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN [ Dec. 6, 
9. Descriptions of five new Species of Birds from the United 
States of Columbia. By P. L. Scrarur, M.A., Ph.D., 
F.R.S., and Osserr Satvin, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Plate LIL.) 
1. PHEUCTICUS UROPYGIALIS, Sp. nov. 
Pheucticus aureoventer, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1855, p. 154. 
Supra niger; rectricum alarium fasciis duabus cum speculo atari 
albis ; wropygit plumis flavis nigro terminatis : subtus ad medium 
pectus niger, abdomine flavo, lateribus nigro variegatis ; tectricibus 
subalaribus flavis : cauda nigra, rectricibus lateralibus albo ter- 
minatis: rostro nigro ad basin plumbeo, pedibus nigris: long. tota 
8, ale 4°5, caude 3°7 poll. Angl. 
Hab. In int. Columbia. 
Mus. P.L. S. et 8.-G. 
Obs. Similis P. aureoventri, Lafr. et D’Orb., ex Bolivia, sed 
uropygio flavo diversus. 
We found this species on a ‘‘ Bogota”’ skin in Sclater’s collection. 
Mr. C. Wyatt has lately obtained a specimen of the same bird in 
the Sierra Ocafia of Columbia. It is probable that Fraser’s skins 
from Riobamba, Ecuador, referred by Sclater (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 551) 
to P. aureoventer may belong here ; but the specimens are not adult, 
and show no black on the throat. We may also remark that they 
have the crissum white, and not yellow as in the Bogota bird. 
There are likewise Bogota skins of this species in the collection of 
Messrs. Salvin and Godman, and in the British Museum. 
There appear to be now known five species of this form, viz. : — 
(1) P. chrysopeplus (Vig.). From Western Mexico ; lately dis- 
criminated by Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. z. Bremen, 1870, p. 339, 
(2) P. tibialis, Lawr. Ann. Lye..N. Y. viii. p. 478. From Costa 
Rica and Veragua. 
(3) P. chrysogaster (Less.); Sel. Cat. Am. B. p. 100 (syn. 
excl.). From Ecuador and Venezuela. 
(4) P. uropygialis. From the highlands of Columbia. 
(5) P. aureiventris, Lafr. et D’Orb. From the highlands of Bo- 
livia. 
2. SYNALLAXIS WYATTI, sp. nov. 
Supra fusca, nigro striata: tectricum alarium marginibus et remigum 
macula magna basin occupante cum subalaribus rufis: subtus pal- 
lide ochracea, pectore paulo obscuriore et punctis paucis nigris 
asperso, gula alba flavicante tincta: caude rectricibus duodecim, 
tribus lateralibus rufis, scapis nigris, ceteris nigricantibus rufo 
paulum variegatis : rostro elongato, acuto, corneo, ad basin palli- 
diore : pedibus fuscis : long. tota6, ale 2, caude rectr. lat, 1°6, 
med. 2°, rostri a rictu 0°7. 
Hab. Paramo of Pamplona, New Granada (Wyaét). 
Mus. P. L. 8. 

