Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1870

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840 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN [DeC. 6, 9. Descriptions of five new Species of Birds from the United States of Columbia. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and O S B E R T SALVIN, M.A., F.L.S. (Plate LIII.) 1. PHEUCTICUS UROPYGIALIS, sp. nov. Pheucticus aureoventer, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 154. Sujrra niger; rectricum alarium fasciis duabus cum speculo albis ; uropygii plumis flavis nigro terminatis : subtus ad medium pectus niger, abdomine flavo, lateribus nigro variegatis; tectricibus subalaribus flavis : cauda nigra, rectricibus lateralibus .- rostro nigro ad basin plumbeo, pedibus nigris: long, 8, alee 4*5, caudee 3*7 poll. Angl. Hab. In int. Columbia. Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G. Obs. Similis P. aureoventri, Lafr. et D'Orb., ex Bolivia, sed uropygio flavo diversus. W e found this species on a " Bogota" skin in Sclater's collection. Mr. C. Wyatt has lately obtained a specimen of the same bird in the Sierra Ocaha of Columbia. It is probable that Fraser's skins from Riobamba, Ecuador, referred by Sclater (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 551) to P. aureoventer may belong here ; but the specimens are not adult, and show no black on the throat. We may also remark that they have the crissum white, and not yellow as in the Bogota bird. There are likewise Bogota skins of this species in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, and in the British Museum. There appear to be now known five species of this form, viz.: - (1) P. chrysopeplus (Vig.). From Western Mexico; lately dis­criminated by Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. z. Bremen, 1870, p. 339. (2) P. tibialis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 478. From Costa Rica and Veragua. (3) P. chrysogaster (Less.); Scl. Cat. A m . B. p. 100 (syn. excl.). From Ecuador and Venezuela. (4) P. uropygialis. From the highlands of Columbia. (5) P. aureiventris, Lafr. et D'Orb. From the highlands of Bo­livia. 2. SYNALLAXIS WYATTI, sp. nov. Supra fusca, nigro striata: tectricum alarium marginibus et remigum macula magna basin occupante cum subalaribus rufis : subtus ochracea, pectore paulo obscuriore ct punctis paucis asperso, gula alba flavicante tincta: caudce rectricibus duodecim, tribus lateralibus rufis, scapis nigris, ceteris nigricantibus paulum variegatis : rostro elongato, acuto, corneo, ad basin : pedibus fuscis: long, tota 6, alee 2, caudce rectr. med. 2'8, rostri a rictu 0*7. Hab. Paramo of Pamplona, New Granada (JVyatt). Mus. P. L. S.