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Show 324 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CHILIAN BIRDS. [Mar. 28, Philippi and Landbeck, at any rate until I have an opportunity of inspecting typical examples of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny's species. Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck place this bird in Burmeister's genus Geobamon. What this genus may be it is difficult to say from the very short characters given ; but the present species seems to me to go very well as a Geositta, being hardly distinguishable in any respect except by its straighter and rather stouter beak. Certhilauda nigrifasciata, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1836 (not 1863, as given by Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck), which these authors take so much pains to discriminate from the present bird, is nothing more than C. cunicularia. The name is dropped altogether by Lafresnaye in the Synopsis of D'Orbigny's birds, published in the 'Magasin de Zoologie' for 1837 ; but I have seen specimens of C. cunicularia marked with it. Vpucerthia dumetoria was observed by Mr. Darwin near Coquimbo. I have not seen typical specimens of U. atacamensis of Philippi (Reise d. d. Wiiste Atacama, p. 162, pl. 3) ; but it is probably the same as m y Cinclodes bifasciatus (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 448). Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus is described by Meyen from examples obtained at a height of 10,000 feet, on the Volcano of Maypu, Central Chili*1*. It is doubtful whether Cinclodes can be maintained as a separate genus from this. Three species of the latter group occur in Chili, namely :- (1) G. nigrifumosus (Lafr. et D'Orb.). Northern Chili, near Coquimbo (Darwin). (2) C. patachonicus (Gm.). Chiloe and Central Chili (Darwin). (3) C. minor, Cab. et Heine. Araucana (Heine). Of all these three species I have specimens in m y collection reputed to be Chilian. Of SynallaxinBe, the Chilian species are- Sylviorthorhynchus des mursi. Oxyurus spinicauda (Gm.). Phleocryptes melanops (Vieill.). Leptasthenura cegithaloides (Kittl.). Synallaxis humicola, Kittl. S. anthoides, King. S. sordida, Less. Of the last species I have a skin, received from Leybold of Santiago, marked S. rufa, Landbeck, nov. sp. M y specimen of the nearly allied S. modesta, Eyton, distinguishable by its red throat-spot and the black inner webs of the rectrices, is likewise marked " Chili;" but as the skin was purchased of a dealer, I am not sure of the locality. Of the typical Dendrocolaptinse, Pygarrhichus albigularis (King) of Southern Chili is, as far as I know, the only species that occurs in the country. * This species is erroneously inserted in m y American Catalogue. I do not possess it, and have never met with authentic examples of it. |
