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Show 86 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CERTAIN DENDROCOLAPTIDEE. [Jan. 17, the ear-coverts are not black, and the feathers in the middle of the throat are tipped with white. The Smithsonian skin of this species is from Savanilla, collected by Mr. Ashurst. 2. ANABATES OCHROL_EMUS, Tschudi, Faun. Per. Aves, p. 240, tab. xx. fig. 2. A typical specimen of this bird received by the Smithsonian Institution from Neuchatel in exchange enables m e to identify this species with Anabates turdinus of Natterer's M S . (Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 41). It agrees very nearly with a Nattererian example in m y own collection, and with a second specimen in the Smithsonian collection from the Huallaga. Mr. E. Bartlett obtained the same species on the Upper Ucayali (see Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 184). This species must therefore now stand as Philydor ochrolcemus (Tsch.). I should remark that I have also one of Tschudi's original specimens of this species in m y own collection (Automolus ochrolcemus of m y C. A. B. p. 158), but had not previously recognized the identity of the two species. 3. ANABATES MONTANUS, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 240, tab. xx. fig. 1. A typical example of this species acquired from the same source proves its identity with Philydor striaticollis of m y American Catalogue. As the latter M S . name of Lafresnaye was only published by me in 1857, Tschudi again has priority, and the species must stand as Philydor montanus. 4. DENDROCOLAPTES CHUNCOTAMBO, Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 241, tab. xxxii. fig. 1. A typical specimen of this species is likewise in the Smithsonian collection. It is the same as Dendrocolaptes ocellatus of Spix (Av. Bras. i. p. 88). At least it agrees with the specimens now thus determined in m y own collection, which are four in number, namely : - a. Gualaquiza, Ecuador (Fraser) 1 =D.palliata, Scl. Cat. A. B. b. R. Huallaga (Hawxwell) j p. 164. c. Rio Negro (Natt.) = D. ocellata of Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 45. d. Xeberos (Bartlett). Since I published m y catalogue I have compared specimens a, c and d with the marked types of D. weddelli * in the Paris Museum and found them identical with it, and not with D. palliata, as I had formerly supposed. It is with great satisfaction, therefore, that I am able to say that Tschudi's ugly name is merely a useless synonym of Dendrornis ocellata. * Des Murs, in Castelnau's Voy. Ois. p. 46. |