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The naino wliu-li has so universally Ikvii iiscil for Teimninck's 

 Sapphire-wing unfortunately cannot pre\ ail on aceount of preoecupa- 

 tion, and Fraser's cynnopicrus app(\irs to he the first available for it. 



Synallaxis BKACHYiRUS BRACHYURUS Lafrcsnaye. 



Synnalaxis brachi/unis Lafr., Rev. zool., 1S43, p. 290 (Colombia). 



Type— M. ( '. Z. 77;2:^{\, Lafr. coll. 2,4.')«). 



Synallaxis pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 18o9, p. 191 

 (Bo'irotii). 



We have carefully conijiared the type, an immature bird with a 

 short, undeveloped tail, with the various forms of Syiiallaxis pudica 

 and with Synallaxis subimdica Sclater. We find Synallaxis pudica 

 Sclater identical with 8. hrachyunis hrachyurus Lafr. 



The subspecies now become : — 



Syualhxis brachyurus brachyurvs Lafresnaye. 



Synall<u:is brachyurus iiigriftiiuosa LawTcnce. 



Synallaxis brachyvrvs caiicae Chapman and 



Synallaxis brachy'URUS ch.apm.ani, subsp. nov. 



Typc.— ^L C. Z. 124,478. Adult cf. Colombia: Jiminez, 

 tropical zone of Pacific slope. 6 April, 1904. M. G. Palmer. 



Characters. — Most nearly like .S. 6. nigrifiwiosa, but back less oliva- 

 ceous, more grayish, and under parts much paler and grayer. Chest- 

 nut of pileum and wings darker than in S. b. brachyurus and very much 

 darker than in S. b. caucae. Size large. Type, adult cf ; "wing, 66; 

 tail, SO; tarsus, 23; exposed culmen, 15. 



Chapman (Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., 1917, 36, p. 404) has already 

 called attention to this race from western Colombia, but has not 

 named it. We consider it quite as well marked as any of the other 

 subspecies. 



Dendrocixcla lafresnayei christlvni, subsp. nov. 



Typc.— ^L C. Z. 124,522. Adult 9. Colombia: near Pavas, 

 Pacific slope of western Andes. 10 March, 1908. M. G. Palmer. 



Characters. — Similar to D. I. Icjresnayei Ridgway of eastern Colom- 

 bia, and of about the same size, but much darker in color, and more 

 olivaceous, less brownish throughout; darker and more ofivaceous 

 even than S. /. ridgwayi Oberholser of Panama and Costa Rica. 



