1889.] AND GENERA OP DENDROCOLAPTIDjE. 33 



2. Phacellodomus rufipennis, sp. nov. 



Above reddish earthy brown ; head, rump, wings, and tail brighter, 

 clear rufous ; lores whitish ; wing-end pale blackish : beneath creamy 

 white ; breast slightly washed with rufous, and with bright shaft- 

 stripes ; flanks and crissum pale rufous ; under wing-coverts dark 

 rufous; bill pale brown, under mandible whiter; feet pale brown. 

 Whole length 8-0 inches, wing 2-7, tail 37. 



Hub. Bolivia. 



Mus. Brit, et P. L. S. 



This species has a general resemblance to P. ruber, but is dis- 

 tinguished by its earthy-brown back and by the breast being suffused 

 with rufous and marked by very narrow bright shaft-stripes. In 

 P. ruber the breast is of a pure white. 



It should be remarked that, as I have lately ascertained by ex- 

 amination of the specimens at Paris, the ordinary Phacellodomus 

 of the Argentine Republic, which I have hitherto followed Burmeister 

 and others in referring to P. ruber, is not P. ruber, but P. striati- 

 collis (d'Orb. et Lafr.). 



3. Thripophaga fusciceps, sp. nov. 



Above earthy brown ; head paler, somewhat cinereous ; interscapu- 

 lium washed with rufous ; edgings of wings and whole tail chestnut- 

 red : beneath yellowish earthy brown, with very narrow brighter 

 shaft-stripes on the breast ; under wing-coverts bright rufous ; bill 

 yellowish brown ; feet pale brown. Whole length 6*7 inches, wing 

 •9, tail 3-3. 



Hab. Bolivia {Bridges). 



Mus. Brit. 



The earthy-brown cap at once distinguishes this well-marked 

 species from its congeners. 



4. PhILYDOR CERVICALIS, Sp. HOV. 



Philydor erythrocercus, Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 420 (?). 



Above uniform dark olive ; rump and tail chestnut-red : beneath 

 pale greyish olive ; throat white ; breast slightly mottled with greyish 

 olive ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of reraiges bright cinna- 

 momeous ; bill greenish grey, with a white blotch on the lower man- 

 dible; feet plumbeous. Whole length 6*3 inches, wing 3*1, tail 2"8. 



Hab. British Gruiana. 



Mus. P.L.S. 



This species seems to me to be decidedly different from P. erythro- 

 cercus, although closely allied. It is distinguished by the want of 

 any signs of the superciliary stripe and by the slightly mottled 

 breast. My specimens were obtained at Bartica Grove and at 

 Camacusa in British Guiana by Mr. Whitely. 



5. PiCOLAPTES PARVIROSTRIS, Sp. UOV. 



Above earthy brown ; rump, margins of wing-feathers and tail 

 bright ferruginous ; head aud neck behind, down to middle of the 

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