192 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
(?) Synallazxis brachyura LAFRESNAYE, Rev. Zool., 1843, 290 (Colombia; types now 
in coll. Boston Soc. N. H.).—Scrater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 141 
(Bogota, Colombia); 1874, 26 (Bogota, Colombia; crit.) —Sauvin, Ibis, 1874, 
322 (crit.). 
Synallazis pudica ScuaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 191 (Bogoté, Colombia; 
coll. P. L. Sclater); 1860, 88 (Nanegal,w. Ecuadér), 278 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuadér; 
crit.), 294 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuadér; crit.); 1874, 10, part (monogr.); Cat. 
Am. Birds, 1862, 151 (Bogot4; Nanegal and Babahoyo, w. Ecuadér); Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, part.—Sciater and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1864, 354 (Panamé4; crit.); 1879, 521 (Remédios, Antioquia, Colombia; 
descr. eggs).—BERLEPscH and TaczaNnowskI, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 
560 (Chimbo, w. Ecuadér; crit.); 1884, 298 (Cayandeléd, w. Ecuadér, 4,000 
ft.)—Taczanowsk1 and Beruepscu, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 94 
(Yaguachi, Ecuadér).—Harrert, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 490 (Chimbo and 
Paramba, n. w. Ecuadér; crit.)—Satvapori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., 
etc., Torino, xv, 1899, no. 362, 19 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuadér).— 
Banas, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 26 (Loma del Leén, Panamé4). 
S[ynallaxis] pudica ScratER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 192 (Colombia). 
[Synallaxis] pudica ScLaTeR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 63, part.— 
Sarre, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 55, part (Panam4; Colombia; Ecuadér). 
Synallaxis brunneicaudalis (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 
319 (Lion Hill, Panamé). 
SYNALLAXIS PUDICA NIGRIFUMOSA (Lawrence). 
SOOTY SYNALLAXIS. 
Similar to S. p. pudica but coloration decidedly darker, the tail 
very dark sooty brown or brownish black, back, etc., deep sepia 
brown, slate color of anterior under parts decidedly darker, and 
rufous-chestnut of pileum and wings deeper. 
Young.*—Above, including whole pileum, deep olive-brown, the 
wings, however, mostly rufescent but the color either duller or more 
tawny than in adults; tail dark sooty brown (as in adults); chin and 
upper throat dull yellowish white or pale yellowish gray, the lower 
throat dark yellowish gray or olive-gray; rest of under parts light olive 
or grayish olive, paling into pale yellowish gray on abdomen, and 
changing into olive-brown or brownish olive on sides, flanks, and 
under tail-coverts. 
Adult male —Length (skins), 135-158 (150); wing, 52.5-62 (56.4); 
tail, 61.5-72.5 (69.6); culmen, 14-15.5 (14.6); tarsus, 20-22 (20.9); 
middle toe, 15-16 (15.3).° 
2 have not been able to examine the young of S. p. pudica. 
b Fifteen specimens. 
