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Show 326 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CHILIAN BIRDS. [Mar. 28, everywhere in Chili * ; the latter in the Andes, at a height of from 5000 to 10,000 feet. Genus TEENIOPTERA. Teenioptera pyrope (Kittl.) is the only Chilian bird of this group I am acquainted with. It is found along the coast as far north as Copiapo, but is common in the south (Darwin). It is not a very typical species of the genus ; and Messrs. Cabanis and Heine separate it as Pyrope kittlitzii (Mus. Hein. ii. p. 45). Genus MUSCISAXICOLA. Of this essentially Chilian genus I have lately given a synopsis of all the species known to m e in the 'Ibis'-f. The fine series now transmitted by Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck does not affect the determinations there arrived at upon the faith of skins received from Herr Leybold. The Chilian species of the genus are the following:- 1. M. nigrifrons, Ph. et Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1865, p. 101. 2. M. cinerea, Ph. et Landb. I. c. p. 80. 3. M. mentalis, Lafr. et D'Orb. As I have already pointed out (Ibis, 1866, p. 58), M. macloviana, of the Falklands, is a larger form of this species. 4. M. flavinucha, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 59 = M.flavivertex, Ph. et Landb. I. c. p. 98. 5. M. rubricapilla, Ph. et Landb. I. c. p. 93. 6. M. rufivertex, Lafr. et D'Orb. 7. M. maculirostris, Lafr. et D'Orb. Octhoeca chilensis, Hartl. (Naum. 1853, p. 212), has been already | correctly referred to M. mentalis (jr. av.), as I learn from a communication from Herr Finsch. Centrites niger (Bodd.), a form allied to Muscisaxicola, widely distributed over the southern end of the American continent, occurs, according to Mr. Darwin, as far north as Copiapo. Another isolated type, nearly allied (Muscigralla brevicauda), is found on the coast of Peru and Ecuador, and has been stated to occur in Chili also §, but not upon very good authority. The locality of the skin in m y collection (1254a, Cat. A. B. p. 206) rests merely on dealers' authority. I believe the specimen to be more probably from Western Peru. Mr. Landbeck sends me an example of Arundinicola citreola, Landb. (Wiegm. Arch. 1864, p. 58), which is certainly very closely allied to Hapalocercus flaviventris (Lafr. et D'Orb). But m y single -skin of the latter bird is not in very good condition, and I should be unwilling to unite the two before examining other specimens. * Ph. et Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1863, p. 136 et seq. t Ibis, 1866, p. 56, " Note on the Species of the Genus Muscisaxicola." See also for the description of an additional species (M. fi.uviatilis), P. Z. S. 1866, p. 187. J Cat. Am. B. p. 205. § Cf. Gay, F. C. Zool. i. p. 338. |
