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Pseudochloris aureiventris ince, subsp. nov. 
_ Sycalis lutea (nec @Orb. & Lafr.), Gosse in Fitzgerald’s 
‘Highest Andes,’ p. 852, 1899. 
Adult male. Similar to P. aureiventris aureiventris Phil. & 
Landb., but differs in having the top of the head, sides 
of face, throat, breast, and under tail-coverts old-gold 
yellow, instead of primuline yellow. ‘Iris blue-black ” 
(P. H. Gosse). 
Total length 132 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 96, 
tail 58, tarsus 20. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having 
the top of the head, back, and upper wing-coverts rust- 
brown with a very slight tinge of citron on the upper 
tail-coverts ; under surface dark vinous-grey with a slight 
trace of yellow on the throat, middle of breast, middle 
of abdomen, and under tail-coverts. Wing 91 mm. 
Hab. Aconcagua Valley, Chilian Andes. 
The types of the male and female, which are in the 
British Museum, were collected at Puente del Inca in 
the Aconcagua Valley, at an altitude of 9170 feet, by 
Capt. P. H. Gosse, R.A.M.C., in December 1896, during 
My. E. A. Fitzgerald’s. expedition to the Chilian Andes. 
Myrmornis Hermann, Tab. Affin. Anim. p. 188 (1783), 
based on Le Fourmillier de Cayenne, Buff. tom. vi. p. 462; 
Daubent. Pl. Enl. v. pl. 700. fig. i.= MM. torquata (Bodd) has 
priority over Rhopoterpe Cabanis, 1847, and must be used. 
The genus Picolaptes Lesson, 1830, which was based on 
P. spizi, is, according to Hellmayr, “ Revision de Spix’schen 
Typen brasilianischer Vogel,’ Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. 
Wiss. ii. KI. xxii. Bd. ili. p. 634 (1906), Dendrornis. spixii 
— (Less.), but Dendrornis of Eyton 1852 is also a synonym of 
Xyphorhynchus Swainson, 1827. 
. Thripobrotus Cab., 1847, appears to be the next earliest, 
founded on 7’. Puticite (Lickin 1820=T. fuscus (Vieill.), 
1817. 
It may be mentioned that Picolaptes is used in the 
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