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BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
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S[ynallaxis] erythrothorax Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 192 (s. Mexico; Guatemala).
[Synallaxis] erythrothorax Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 168, no. 2228. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 63. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 57.
Synallaxis erytrothorax Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, 1878, 37 (Guatemala).
Synallaxis cinerascens (not of Temminck) Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 118 (Guatemala).

SYNALLAXIS PUDICA PUDICA Sclater.

SLATY SYNALLAXIS.

Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead, sides of head (including loral, superciliary, auricular, suborbital and malar regions) and sides of neck plain dull slate color or dark mouse gray, the first rather darker and slightly tinged with brownish; whole crown and occiput deep cinnamon-rufous or reddish chestnut; hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain olive, grayer on hindneck, more strongly olive posteriorly; tail olive-brown or warm-sepia, the shafts of rectrices black; wings bright cinnamon-rufous or rufous-chestnut, the terminal portion of remiges (extensively) and whole of tertials deep olive-brown or sepia, the outermost primaries also mostly of this color; underparts mostly plain dull slate color or dark mouse gray, paler posteriorly, where strongly tinged with olive on flanks and under tail-coverts, the chin and upper throat narrowly streaked with white; in certain lights, a darker spot at junction of lower throat and chest; under wing-coverts light ochraceous-rufous, paler and duller on under primary-coverts; inner webs of remiges (except outermost primaries) broadly edged with vinaceous-cinnamon for basal half (approximately); maxilla blackish horn color, mandible light grayish horn color; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn color (in dried skins). Length (skins), 148-164 (155); wing, 55-60 (57.8); tail, 67.5-75 (71); culmen, 14.5-16 (15.2); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); middle toe, 15-16.5 (15.9).[1]

Adult female. — Length (skins), 151; wing, 55-55.5 (55.2); tail, 65-67 (66); culmen, 14-15 (14.5); tarsus, 21; middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).[2]

Eastern Panamá (Lion Hill; Panamá) and southward through Colombia (Bogotá; Remédios, Antioquía) to Ecuadór (Babahoyo; Nanegál; Esmeraldas; Chimbo; Cayandeléd; Yaguachi; Paramba; Foreste del Rio Peripa).[3]


  1. Five specimens, from Panamá.
  2. Two specimens, from Panamá.
  3. The birds of this species from western Ecuadór may be different from true S. pudica of Colombia, but I am unable to compare specimens.