Be. Sokal | 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
SYNALAXIS FLAMMULATUS, Jarp. 
Tus bird, which formed a part of our last collection from Quito, 
we have been unable to reconcile with any described or figured 
species. It “frequents the lofty table-lands of the Andes, at an 
elevation of 14,000 feet.” 
The general colour above is a pale umber brown, and each feather 
has in the centre a broad somewhat lanceolate streak along the 
shaft of yellowish-white, on the forehead and crown’ tinted with 
ochraceous; the edges of this stripe are bordered irregularly with 
a deeper tint of umber brown, relieving the white, and at the same 
time making the entire plumage appear darker than it really is 
when separated. On the wings the colours become more rufous, 
maintaining the same central streak ; the quills are umber brown, 
having at the base a pale sienna band, distinctly marked across. 
The tail is much graduated, the feathers slender and disunited at 
the tips; the centre feathers are umber brown, paler on the outer 
edges ; those to the outside become paler and more clouded towards 
the shafts with umber; underneath, the chin and upper part of the 
throat is pale yellow, and on the other parts the ground colour is a 
paler umber brown; the centre of the feathers broadly marked with 
yellowish-white, giving to the centre of the belly and vent a pre- 
ponderance of that colour. The tarsi and feet appear to have 
been bluish-gray or lead colour, and the latter are long in proportion 
to the size of the bird. 
The entire length is, 6.5 ; of bill to forehead, 3; of wing, 2.4: 
of tarsus, 9, 
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