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Show 1874.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE GENUS SYNALLAXIS. 5 (1843.) Revue Zoologique, p. 290. Lafresnaye describes five new species of Synallaxis in an article upon new Columbian birds:-S. unirufa, fuliginosa, brachyura, gularis, and cinnamomea. These are all good species except S. brachyura, which I cannot make out. In 1859 I changed the name cinnamomea to Icemosticta, as there was already a S. cinnamomea (Linn.). (1846.) Mr. G. R. Gray gives a list of thirty-five (then) described species of Synallaxis in Gray and Mitchell's ' Genera of Birds.' (1847.) Sir W . Jardine describes S. terrestris from Tobago. Ann. N . H. xix. p. 80. (1848.) Cabanis, in Schomburgk's ' Reisen in Britisch Guiana' (iii. p. 689), mentions only two Synallaxes, S. ruficauda (i.e. S. cinnamomea) and S. ruficapilla, which is -S. frontalis. (1850.) Bonaparte, in his 'Conspectus,' gives a list of thirty-two species of Synallaxis. (1850.) Sir W . Jardine (Contr. Orn. p. 82, pi. 56) describes and figures S.flammulata from Ecuador. (1851.) Eyton describes two new Synallaxes in ' Contr. to Orn.' p. 150, S. olivascens ( = S. ruficapilla) and <S1. modesta. (1852) Reichenbach, in his ' Handbuch d. Speciellen Ornitho-logie,' gives his account of Synallaxis. Being a mere compilation, with little reference to actual specimens, it is, like the rest of this author's work, replete with gross errors. The true Synallaxes are scattered amongst the (so-called) genera Synallaxis, Leptasthenura, Bathmidura, Melanopareia, Cranioleuca, Asthenes, Leptoxyura, and Siptornis. In the middle of these are placed the Australian Ortho-nyx and the Clitonyx (sive Mohoua) of New Zealand! The new species described are Leptoxyura semicinerea and Bathmidura d'orbignii, both which (specific) names are adopted here. (1854.) Burmeister gives an account of the Brazilian Synallaxes in his ' Syst. Uebersicht d. Thiere Brasiliens.' Two species of Melano-paria and eight of Synallaxis are given ; but several of these were not met with by the author personally. (1855.) P. Z. S. p. 75. I describe S. erythrothorax from Central- American skins. (1856.) Ann. N. H. xvii. p. 466. I describe S. caslanea from Venezuela. (1856.) Burmeister, in his ' Syst. Uebersicht d. Thiere Brasiliens * (vol. iii. p. 37 et seq.), gives an account of the S.E. Brazilian species, but introduces S. maximiliani, which does not occur in Brazil, referring it and its near ally S. torquata to Melanopareia, Reich. The species met with by Burmeister himself appear to have been only S. torquata, S. spixi (sub nom. S. albescens), S. pallida, and S. cinnamomea (called S. mentalis). These, however, are not very clearly distinguished in every case. (1856.) P. Z. S. pp. 25, 97. I describe four new species of Synallaxis- S. elegans, S. moesta, S. spixi, and S. caniceps. Of these, S. elegans=S. frontalis, v. Pelzelu. (1857.) P. Z. S. p. 273. I describe S. multostriata from specimens in the Jardin des Plantes. But this =S.fiammulata, Jardine. |