SYLVIAD^. £^7 



Synallaxis with the upper parts, lower belly, and vent rufous- 

 olive; the liead, sides of the neck, breast, and wing-coverts 

 chesnut-red ; the throat with a black spot. 



Beak stout, silvery at its base and black at the 

 tip; the forehead, eyebrows, cheeks, sides of the 

 neck, the breast, and wing-coverts bright chesnut- 

 red : throat with a longitudinal black spot : wings 

 dusky, edged with chesnut : tail plain dusky : the 

 upper parts of the body, the lower belly and vent, are 

 olive, shaded with deep red. 



Sp. 2. Sy. albescens. Temm. PI. Col. 227./ 2. 



Sy. cinereo-olimceus, suhtus alhus ; vertice occipiteque rufis ; guld 



albidd ; ventre lateribusque nifescentibus. 

 Ashy-olive Synallaxis, beneath white ; with the crown and occiput 



red ; the throat whitish ; the belly and sides reddish. 



Upper mandible of the beak black, lower whitish : 

 throat white, shaded with black : the chin, middle of 

 the abdomen, and the vent white : the rest of the 

 belly and the sides of the body reddish-ash : the top 

 of the head and occiput bright-red : lesser wing-co- 

 verts tinged with the same hue : the forehead, eye- 

 brows, and cheeks are deep grey : the nape, the back, 

 the wings, and tail-feathers are ashy-olive : tail broad 

 and long. 



Sp. 3. Sy. garrula. 



^Y.Juscus, infrd albescentibiis ; plumis Jrontalibus rigidis, acumi- 



natisj rufis ; strigis ante et pone oculos albescentibus ; caudd 



mediocri, rotundatd. 

 Brown Synallaxis, whitish beneath ; with the frontal feathers 



stiff, pointed and rufous; a stripe before and behind the eyes 



whitish ; the tail moderate, rounded. 

 Malurus garrulus. Swain, Zool. Illust. pL 138, 



