BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 191 
S{ynallazis] erythrothorax ScuateR and Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 192 
(s. Mexico; Guatemala). 
[Synallaxis] erythrothorax Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 168, no. 2228.—Sciarer and 
Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 63.—SuHarpr, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 57. 
Synallaxis erytrothorax Boucarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, 1878, 37 (Guatemala). 
Synallaxis cinerascens (not of Temminck) Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1837, 118 (Guatemala). 
SYNALLAXIS PUDICA PUDICA Sclater. 
SLATY SYNALLAXIS. 
Adults (sexes alike).—¥Yorehead, sides of head (including loral, 
superciliary, auricular, suborbital and malar regions) and sides of 
neck plain dull slate color or dark mouse gray, the first rather darker 
and slightly tinged with brownish; whole crown and occiput deep 
cinnamon-rufous or reddish chestnut; hindneck, back, scapulars, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts plain olive, grayer on hindneck, more 
strongly olive posteriorly; tail olive-brown or warm-sepia, the shafts 
of rectrices black; wings bright cinnamon-rufous or rufous-chestnut, 
the terminal portion of remiges (extensively) and whole of tertials 
deep olive-brown or sepia, the outermost primaries also mostly of this 
color; underparts mostly plain dull slate color or dark mouse gray, 
paler posteriorly, where strongly tinged with olive on flanks and 
under tail-coverts, the chin and upper throat narrowly streaked 
with white; in certain lights, a darker spot at junction of lower throat 
and chest; under wing-coverts light ochraceous-rufous, paler and 
duller on under primary-coverts; inner webs of remiges (except out- 
ermost. primaries) broadly edged with vinaceous-cinnamon for basal 
half (approximately); maxilla blackish horn color, mandible light 
grayish horn color; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn color (in 
dried skins). Length (skins), 148-164 (155); wing, 55-60 (57.8); 
tail, 67.5-75 (71); culmen, 14.5-16 (15.2); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); 
middle toe, 15-16.5 (15.9).¢ 
Adult female—Length (skins), 151; wing, 55-55.5 (55.2); tail, 
65-67 (66); culmen, 14-15 (14.5); tarsus, 21; middle toe, 15-15.5 
(15.2).° 
Eastern Panama (Lion Hill; Panama) and southward through 
Colombia (Bogoté; Remédios, Antioquia) to Ecuadér (Babahoyo; 
Nanegél; Esmeraldas; Chimbo; Cayandeléd; Yaguachi; Paramba; 
Foreste del Rio Peripa).¢ 
@ Five specimens, from Panamé. 
6 Two specimens, from Panamé4. 
¢ The birds of this species from western Ecuadér may be different from true 8, 
pudica of Colombia, but I am unable to compare specimens. 
