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Show 578 ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF SYNALLAXIS. [June 20, Parrot received dead from Mr. Jamrach the same was found to be the case. W e must therefore conclude, I think, that, exactly contrary to the usual state of the case, it is the female in Paocephalus rueppelli (Plate XLII.) that acquires this additional ornamental colour, and not the male. 7. O n two apparently new Species of the Genus Synallaxis. B y P. L. S C L A T E R , M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received June 19, 1882.] (Plate XLIII.) Messrs. Salvin and Godman have placed in my hands for determination some additional specimens of birds of the genus Synallaxis which they have recently received. Amongst these I find two examples of species belonging to the section with ten rectrices1 apparently undescribed, which, with Messrs. Salvin and Godman's kind permission, I propose to characterize as follows:- 1. SYNALLAXIS FUSCO-RUFA, sp. nov. (Plate XLIII. fig. 1.) Supra fusca, pileo, alis extus et cauda tota rufis ; subtus cinnamomea, in ventro medio dilutior, in crisso et hypochondriis in fuscum transeuns, subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis pallide rufis. Long, tota 6*7, ala 2*2, cauda rectr. med. 4, ext. 1*2, tarsi 8. Obs. Species S. unirufa et S. castanea proxima, sed colore dorsi distincta. Hab. San Sebastian, Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, alt. 7000 ft. (Simons). A single skin of this Synallaxis was in Mr. F. A. A. Simons's last collections2. It is not quite adult, but, though agreeing well with S. unirufa and S. castanea in form, is evidently distinct, as above noted. 2. SYNALLAXIS GRISEO-MURINA, sp. nov. (Plate XLIII. fig. 2.) Supra murino-brunnea, alis interne nigricantibus extus dorso concoloribus j ciliis oculorum albis; subtus grisea, in medio ventre dilutior, in lateribus et crisso fuscescentior ; mento albo, subalaribus griseis ; rostro nigro, pedibus obscure carneis. Long. tota 7, ala 2*5, cauda rectr. med. 4*3, ext. 1*4, tarsi 1*0. Hub. San Lucas, Ecuador ( Villagomez per C. Buckley). Obs. Affinis S. fuliginosa et forma omnino congruens, sed dorso murino nee rufescente brunneo distinguenda. This species is exactly of the same habit as S. fuliginosa of 1 Cf. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 7. 2 Cf. Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, p. 196; 1880, pp. 114, 169. |