205 
Species of the Family Pteroptochidae. 
bula inferiore ad basin flavida: long, tota 8*0, alae 3*8, 
caudae 3*2. 
Hah. Columbia int. et rep. ^Equator. 
Mus. P. L. S. 
Genus 8. Triptorhinus. 
Triptorhinus, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. Jahrg. x. i. p. 219 (1847). 
This type is perhaps more like Scytalopus in general ap¬ 
pearance, but has, although to a lesser degree, the same curi¬ 
ous development of the culmen. The hind claw is moderately 
long and curved. 
1. Triptorhinus paradoxus. 
Troglodytes paradoxus, Kittl. Mem. pres. Acad. St. Pet. 
1831, p. 184, pi. v. 
Malacorhynchus chilensis, Menetr. Mon. des Myiotheres, 
p. 85. 
Platyurus lepturus, Sw. Class, ii. p. 319. 
Leptonyx paradoxus, IPOrb. Voy. Ois. p. 197. 
Triptorhinus paradoxus, Cab. Orn. Not. p. 219 : Bp. Consp. 
p. 205 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 20; Scl. et Salv. 
Nomencl. p. 77. 
Merulaxis paradoxus, Lafr. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 146. 
Pteroptochus paradoxus, Gay, Paun. Chil. p. 305. 
Scytalopus magellanicus, Ph. et Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. 
p. 14. 
Schistaceus, subtus paulo dilutior: uropygio ventre imo et 
crisso rufis : rostro nigro, mandibula inferiore ad basin 
flavida : pedibus flavicanti-corylinis : long, tota 5‘0, alse 
2*4, caudae 1*8. Fem . mari similis. Jun. Fuscus, fasciis 
transversis rufescentibus : subtus magis ochraceus nigro 
transfasciatus et punctatus. 
Hah. Chilia merid., Valdivia (Landbeck). 
Appendix of Houbtful Species. 
(1.) Sylviaxis guttatus, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 274, is 
apparently founded upon the young of some species of Scyta¬ 
lopus. No locality is given. 
(2.) Scytalopus femoralis, Tsch. Faun. Per. Aves, p. 182. 
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