ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
narrow scales, like the abdominal scales of snakes ; hind toe long 
and rather stout, claw long; middle toe long and slender, and with 
the other two fore toes furnished with fine nails.” 
SCYTALOPUS EFUSCUS, Gov. 
Puate LXXVILI. 
Scytalopus fascus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. October, 1836, p. 89. — Jard. and Selby, 
Illust, of Ornith. N.S. pl. xix. Bonap. Consp. Av. p. 206.— (Bonap. gives 
as a syn. Malacorhynchus spelunce? Ménét.) 
“ At the plumage of a uniform sooty black, the head in some 
specimens having each feather margined with. beautiful silvery 
gray; bill black; feet brown. Total length two inches and three 
quarters; bill half an inch; wing an inch and seven-eighths ; tail 
an inch and a quarter; tarsi seven-cighths. Habitat, Straits of 
Magellan, Chili.” 
SCYTALOPUS ALBOGULARIS, Govtp. 
Prats LXXVIII. 
Scytalopus albogularis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. October, 1836, p. 90. — Jard. and 
Selby, Must. of Ornith. N.S. pl. xx. 
Tue Prince of Canino, in his Conspectus Generum Avium, quotes 
as synonymous with this species, Myothera indigotina, Leichten- 
stein, which we have had no opportunity to verify, and also Mala- 
corhynchus albiventris and indigotinus, Ménétries, On our next 
plate we have figured what we consider to be identical with the 
figure of Ménétries, and both these, we think, are different from the 
bird which served for our figure in the “ Illustrations” of S. albo- 
gularis. We regret to say, that neither of the original specimens of 
S. fuscus and albogularis, which at the time of description formed 
part of Mr, Gould’s private collection, are now accessible, nor cal 
Mr. Gould inform us of their destination, and we cannot too much 
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