324 MR. P. L- SCLATER ON CHILIAN BIRDS. [Mar. 28, 



Philippi and Landbeck, at any rate until I have an opportu- 

 nity of inspecting typical examples of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny's 

 species. 



Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck place this bird in Burmeister's 

 genus Geobmnon. What this genus may be it is difficult to say from 

 the very short characters given ; but the present species seems to me 

 to go very well as a Geositta, being hardly distinguishable in any 

 respect except by its straighter and rather stouter beak. 



Certhilauda nigrifasciata, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1836 (not 1863, 

 as given by Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck), which these authors 

 take so much pains to discriminate from the present bird, is nothing 

 more than C. cunicularia. The name is dropped altogether by 

 Lafresnaye in the Synopsis of D'Orbigny's birds, published in the 

 ' Magasin de Zoologie' for 1837 ; but I have seen specimens of C. 

 cunicularia marked with it. 



Ujmcerthia dumetoria was observed by Mr. Darwin near Co- 

 quimbo. I have not seen typical specimens of TJ. atacamensis of 

 Philippi (Reise d. d. Wiiste Atacama, p. 162, pi. 3) ; but it is pro- 

 bably the same as my Cinclodes bifasciatus (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 448). 



Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus is described by JNIeyen from examples 

 obtained at a height of 10,000 feet, on the Volcano of Maypu, 

 Central Chili*. It is doubtful whether Cinclodes can be maintained 

 as a separate genus from this. Three species of the latter group 

 occur in Chili, namely : — 



(1) C. nigrifumosus (Lafr. et D'Orb.). Northern Chili, near 

 Coqnimbo {Darwin) . 



(2) C patachonicus (Gm.). Chiloe and Central Chili {Darwin). 



(3) C. minor. Cab, et Heine. Araucana {Heine). 



Of all these three species I have specimens in my collection re- 

 puted to be Chilian. 



Of Synallaxinse, the Chilian species are — 



Sylviorthorhynchus des mursi. 



Oxyurus spinicauda (Gm.). 



Phleocryptes nielanops (Vieill.). 



Leptasthenura cegithaloides (Kittl.). 



S'j nail axis humicola, Kittl. 



iS. anthoides. King. 



S. sordida. Less. 



Of the last species I have a skin, received from Leybold of San- 

 tiago, marked S. rvfa, Landbeck, nov. sp. My specimen of the 

 nearly allied S. modest a, Eyton, distinguishable by its red throat- 

 spot and the black inner webs of the rectrices, is likewise marked 

 •' Chili ;" but as the skin was purchased of a dealer, I am not sure 

 of the locality. 



Of the typical Dendrocolaptinse, Pygarrhichus albigularis (King) 

 of Southern Chili is, as far as I know, the only species that occurs 

 in the country. 



* This species is erroneously inserted in my American Catalogue. I do not 

 possess it, and have never met with authentic examples of it. 



