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yellow: beneath this is a large black space, with a 

 white space on each side : the top of the head and 

 the bend of the wing are chesnut-red : the rest of the 

 upper parts and the feathers of the wings and tail are 

 brown, varied with deep ochraceous, and dashed with 

 dusky : the tail is very long, conical, with brown 

 shafts : the middle of the belly is white ; the breast 

 is clear red ; and the sides as well as the vent are 

 reddish-yellow. 



Sp. 6. Sy. setaria. Temm. PL Col. 311.^ 2. 



Sv? capite subcristato, pennis frontalibus nigris medio alba; pone 

 ocalos strigd alba ; dorso, alls, cauddque riifis ; collo antice 

 pectoreque albis, pennis Jusco marginatis. 



Synallaxis with the head slightly crested, its feathers and those 

 of the forehead black, with the middle white ; behind the eyes 

 a white stripe ; the back, wings, and tail red ; the neck in front 

 and breast white, the feathers edged with brown. 



Length seven inches : the head is adorned with a 

 slight crest ; the feathers of which it is composed, as 

 well as those of the forehead, are black, with a white 

 stripe in the direction of the shaft : behind the eyes 

 is a small white streak : the fore part of the neck and 

 the breast is white, the feathers finely edged with 

 brown : the belly is dull reddish-white : the vent 

 tinged with red : the nape and sides of the neck are 

 ashy striated with whitish : the back, wings, and tail 

 are lively red : the greater quills are dusky, and the 

 tail-feathers are dusky on their inner webs, except 

 the three lateral ones, which are entirely rufous : the 

 under mandible of the beak is white at the base. 



Sp. 7- Sy? stenura. 



Sy? Jerrugineo-ritfus supra nigro striatus;fronte, loris,Jctsciuque 

 oculari albis; capite et nucha pennis nigris alba margitmtis 1 . 



