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Show 1867.] MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. 143 This species has not been noticed before as occurring so far south, though specimens of the second Central American bird of this genus (S. guatemalensis) have been sent from Panama. The two examples contained in these collections are neither of them in good condition ; they appear to differ slightly from our Guatemalan specimens, the uropygium being somewhat darker and the bill shorter. 77. SYNALLAXIS ALBESCENS, Temm. Pl. Col. 227. f. 2 ; Scl. Cat. A m . B. p. 151. Santa Fe. A single example of a Synallaxis agrees closely with Sclater's specimen from Trinidad, which he ascribes to S. albescens, Temm. Four species of Synallaxis have been recorded as occurring in Central America, viz. S. erythrothorax, Scl., of South Mexico and Guatemala ; S. pudica, Scl., Panama ; S. albescens, Temm., Veragua ; and S. nigrifumosa, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. viii. p. 180, Greytown, Nicaragua. I have not seen specimens of this last mentioned. It seems to be very closely allied to S. pudica, perhaps the male of that species ; a specimen with the sex so marked from Panama differs from the female in the greater intensity of the smoky-black tinge of the under plumage and in the brighter shade of chestnut, distinctions upon which Mr. Lawrence rests the claim of the species he describes to specific rank. 78. XENOPS MEXICANUS, Scl. Santa Fe'. Also noticed on the Panama Railway. 79. AUTOMOLUS CERVINIGULARIS, Scl. Santa Fe. Mr. McLeannan, according to Mr. Lawrence, also procured this species on the Isthmus of Panama, where, however, another of this form (A. pallidigularis, Lawr.) occurs. 80. PHILYDOR FUSCIPENNIS, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 72. Santiago de Veragua. This is the second species of this genus now known to occur in Central America, the other being P. rufobrunneus, Lawr. (Ann. L. N. Y. viii. p. 127), from Costa Rica. 81. MARGARORNIS BRUNNESCENS, Scl. Cordillera de Tole. A single specimen sent by Arce only differs from Sclater's type of M. brunnescens in having the rump slightly darker rufous, the difference not being sufficient to warrant specific separation. It is probably this bird that Mr. Lawrence refers to (Ann. N. Y. Lye. viii. p. 130), where he suggests the possibility of a Costa Rica specimen being different from brunnescens, and proposes the name brunneicauda should his surmise prove correct. |