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Show 1874.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW SPECIES OF SYNALLAXIS. 445 black. The rings on the body do not extend across the ventrals, which are white, and, like the white interspaces between the black rings, irregularly spotted with black. This is a slender species with narrow head, and with the body somewhat compressed. Total length 15 inches, the tail being 4 inches. 6. Descriptions of three new Species of the Genus Synallaxis. B y P. L. S C L A T E R , M.A., Ph.D., F.B.S., Secretary to the Society. [Eeceived June 9, 1874.] (Plate LVIII.) Among the birdskins collected by M. Jelski in Central Peru, and lately submitted to m y examination by our Corresponding Member M. Taczanowski, of Warsaw, are specimens of four species of Synallaxine birds which had not occurred in his previous collections, and were therefore not included in m y synopsis of the genus, published in the first part of the Society's ' Proceedings ' for the present year. What is still more remarkable is, that three of these species (all referable to the Synallaxis proper according to m y views) appear to be new to science. Certainly they cannot be referred to any of the fifty-eight species which I have described in the above-mentioned memoir. The fourth is Leptasthenura andicola (Sclater, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 636, pi. xlix. fig. 2), which I had not met with previously in Peruvian, collections, although its occurrence there was by no means unlikely from its having been obtained at a high elevation in the Andes in the neighbouring republic of Ecuador. Of the three new species of Synallaxis, with M . Taczanowski's kind sanction, I proceed to offer the following descriptions. 1. SYNALLAXIS PUDIBUNDA, sp. nov. (Plate LVIII. fig. 1.) Supra murino-brunnea, in dorso inferiore rufescens ; alis et cauda luride rufis, hujus rectricibus quatuor mediis inpogonio interiore nigricantibus : superciliis indistinctis, capitis lateribus et corpore toto subtus cineraceo-fuscis; gula media pallide fulva, punctis indistinctis nigris circumdata : hypochondriis et crisso rufescente lavatis : subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis rufis: rostro obscure corneo, mandibula inferiore ad basin albicante, pedibus obscure corylinis: long, tota 5-8, ala 2'\, cauda rectr. med. 2-9, rectr ext. \'7. Hab. Obraillo, Peru (Jelski). Mus. Varsoviano. There is but one specimen of this species, which, however, seems quite distinct from any of those that I am acquainted with. It belongs to the section with twelve rectrices, and will stand best, I think, near S. modesta and its allies, having a pale fawn-coloured gular patch, round which, on the sides of the face and neck, are indistinct |
