578 ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF SYNALLAXIS. [Juiie 20, 



Parrot received dead from Mr. Jamrach the same was found to be 

 the case. We must therefore conclude, I think, that, exactly contrary 

 to the usual state of the case, it is the female in Poeocephalus ruep- 

 pelli (Plate XLII.) that acquires this additional ornamental colour, 

 and not the male. 



7. On two apparently new Species of the Genus Synallaxis. 

 By P. L. ScLATEK, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to 

 the Society. 



[Eeceived June 19, 1882.] 



(Plate XLIII.) 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman have placed in my hands for deter- 

 mination some additional specimens of birds of the genus Synal- 

 laxis which they have recently received. Amongst these I find two 

 examples of species belonging to the section with ten rectrices^ 

 apparently undescribed, which, with Messrs. Salvin and Godman's 

 kind permission, I propose to characterize as follows : — 



1. Synallaxis fusco-rufa, sp. nov. (Plate XLIII. fig. 1.) 



Suprafusca, pileo, alii extus et cauda iota rufis ; subtus cinnamomea, 

 in ventro medio dilutior, in crisso et hypochondriis in fuscum 

 transeuns, subularibus et remiyum marginibus internis pallide 

 rufis. Long, tola 6"7, alae 2-2, cauda rectr. med. 4, ext. 1'2, 

 tarsi 8. 

 Obs. Species (S. unirufce. et H. castanecB proxima, sed colore dorsi 

 distincta. 



Hab. San Sebastian, Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, alt. 7000 ft. 

 (Simons). 



A single skin of this Synallaxis was in Mr. F. A. A. Simons's last 

 collections-. It is not quite adult, but, though agreeing well with 

 S. unirufa and S. castanea in form, is evidently distinct, as above 

 noted. 



2. Synallaxis GRisEO-MTJRTNA, sp. nov. (Plate XLIII. fig. 2.) 



Supra murino-brunnea, ulis interne nigricantibiis extus dorso con- 

 coloribus ; ciliis oculorum albis ; subtus grisea, in medio ventre 

 dilutior, in lateribus et crisso fuscescentior ; mento albo, sub- 

 ularibus griseis ; rostro nigra, pedibus obscure carneis. Long, 

 tota 7, alcB 2".5, caudce rectr. med. 4*3, ext. \'A, tarsi 1*0. 



Hab. San Lucas, Ecuador (Villagomez per C. Buckler/). 



Obs. Affinis S . fuliginosce et forma omniuo congruens, sed dorso 

 murino uec rufesceute brunneo distingueuda. 



This species is exactly of the same habit as S. fuliginosa of 



• (7/. P.Z.S. 1874, p. 7. 



2 Cf. Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, p. 196 ; 1880, pp. 114, 169. 



