Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Genus Grallaria. 
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v 
Peruvian skins of this species from Cachupata ( Whitely ) 
are rather duller above, and show less of the paler colour of 
the abdomen ; but I cannot undertake to separate them from 
the Columbian form. 
Prom the skin of an immature bird (from Bogota) in my 
collection the young plumage of this species would appear 
to be of a blackish grey, with long white shaft-spots. 
Sect. D. Grallaria: flammulatas. 
19. Grallaria ruficapilla. 
Grallaria ruficapilla, Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1842, p. 333; Sclater, 
P. Z. S. 1855, p. 145, 1857, p. 18, et 1858, p. 282, et Cat. A. 
B. p. 192; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 781, et Nom. Av. 
Neotr. p. 75. 
Hypsibemon ruficapillus , Cab. Orn. Not. i. p. 217; Bp. 
Consp. p. 204. 
Olivaceo-brunnea, pileo toto et lateribus capitis castaneo-rufis : 
subtus alba, pectore et lateribus nigricanti-brunneo 
flammulatis; sub alaribus p abide rufis: long, tota 8’0, 
alee 4*0, caudse 2'0, tarsi 1*9. 
Hab. Venezuela, Columbia et iEquatoria. 
Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G. 
This fine and well-marked species has a wide distribution. 
Goering obtained it in the wood-region of Merida, Sal¬ 
mon in Antioquia, and Buckley more recently in Ecuador. 
It is also not uncommon in collections from Bogota and 
Quito. There is no apparent difference in skins from these 
several localities. 
A nestling of this species {Mus. S.-G.) is of a nearly uni¬ 
form pale fulvous, crossed above and on the chest with nu¬ 
merous transverse bars ; throat and lower belly white; wings 
and tail olivaceous. It is a most singular-looking bird. 
20. Grallaria brevicauda. 
Le Beffroi de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 706. fig. 1. 
Formicarius brevicauda , Bodd. Table d. PI. Enl. p. 44. 
Turdus tinniens, Gm. S. N. i. p. 827. 
Grallaria timiens , Bp. Consp. p. 204; Burm. Syst. Ueb. 
iii. p. 51; Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 334; Tsch. Faun. Per. 
p. 182. 
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