150 DENDEOCOLAPTID^. 



and melodious. On the other hand, McLeannan says that it has no song ^°. The 

 iris is noted as reddish ^ and as brown ^^. 



3. Synallaxis erythrothorax. 



Synallaxis cinerascens, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 118 (nee Temm.) *. 



Synallaxis erythrothorax, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 75, i. 86"; 1856, p. 288'; 1859, p. 382'; 1874, 



p. 17 = ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 55 = ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 117 ' ; 1860, p. 35 ' ; 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837'; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 555"; La Nat. v. 



p. 247"; Sanehez, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. i. p. 97"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 335"; 



Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 449 ". 



Supra brunnea, capite summo obscuriore, caada saturate rufo-brunnea : subtus gula nigra, menti plumig 

 lateraliter albo marginatis, pectore et alis extus laete castaneis ; hjrpoohondriis brunneis, abdomine medio 

 griseo-albo variegato : rostro efc pedibus nigris. Long, tota 6'0, alae 2'15, caudse rect. med. 2-6, rectr. lat. 

 0-8, rostri a rictu 0-6, tarsi 0-8. (Descr. maris ex Atoyao, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



2 mari similis. 



Av. juv. subtus pallide brunneua, gula cinerascentiore, abdomine albicantiore, rostri mandibula pallida. (Descr. 

 maris juv. ex EetaUiuleu, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.). 



Hab. Mexico, hot region of the State of Vera Cruz ^^, Uvero ^^, and Omealca ^^ 

 (Sumichrast), Cordova (Salle ^), Atoyac (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Vera Cruz (Sanchez ^\ 

 P. B. G.), Playa Vicente (Boucard \ M. Trujillo), Sochiapa (M. Trujillo), Teapa 

 in Tabasco (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Eastern Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer^^); Beitish 

 HoNDUBAS, Belize (Dyson), Orange Walk (Gaumer), Cayo (F. Blancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala (Velasquez^, Constancia^^), Coban (Belattre^''), Choctum, Chisec, 

 Kamkhal (0. S. & F. B. G.), Yzabal (0. S. % Eetalhuleu (0. S., W. B. Richard- 

 son) ; Honduras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely ^°). 



The first specimens of this Synallaxis sent to Europe were doubtless those that 

 came into Prince Bonaparte's hands from Col. Velasquez, who obtained them in 

 Guatemala ^. They were then supposed to belong to iS'. cinerascens, Temm., a species 

 of South Brazil, but quite a different bird. Mr. Sclater's description was based upon 

 a specimen in the Derby Museum in Liverpool, obtained by Delattre (probably in 1846) 

 near Coban in Guatemala ; other examples being in the British Museum and in his 

 own collection ^. In 1851 Strickland received a specimen from Guatemala ^^ ; the bird 

 was afterwards traced to the State of Vera Cruz by Salle ^^ and Boucard \ and is now 

 known, as Sumichrast says, to be not uncommon in the hot low-lying portions of that 

 State as far north as the town of Vera Cruz, where Godman found it in February 1888. 

 Southwards of Vera Cruz it is common, and probably spreads over the whole ot 

 Yucatan, the State of Tabasco, British Honduras, and Guatemala, to the neighbourhood 

 of the town of Coban, and to Yzabal on the Golfo Dulce ^. On the side of the moun- 

 tains sloping to the Pacific Ocean, aS'. erythrothorax is common about Escuintla and 

 Eetalhuleu, but we have not traced it so far as the State of Chiapas in this direction. 

 Returning to the Atlantic seaboard, the most southern record we have is that of 



