[210.] PHACELLODOMUS STRIATICOLLIS (d’Orb. et Lafr.).
(RED-WINGED THORN-BIRD.)
Anumbius striaticollis, d’Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 255 (Buenos Ayres). Phacellodomus striaticollis, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 65.
Description.—Above, forehead and crown rufous; lores white; sides of head, neck, and back brown; whole wing chestnut, the feathers tipped with blackish; tail chestnut; beneath white, clearer on the throat and breast, which are marked with slight white shaft-spots; sides of breast and flanks washed with reddish brown; under tail-coverts brown; under wing-coverts cinnamon; bill and feet horn-colour: whole length 8·0 inches, wing 2·9, tail 3·1. Female similar.
Hab. Argentina and Uruguay.
D’Orbigny, who discovered this species in Uruguay, and found it also near Buenos Ayres, remarks that it lives in pairs in the thorny bushes, and resembles its congeners in habits. It is, however, certainly not common in the vicinity of the Argentine capital, for Hudson has never met with it.
[211.] PHACELLODOMUS RUBER (Vieill.).
(RED THORN-BIRD.)
Phacellodomus ruber, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 467 (Paraná, Cordova); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 65; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 183 (Buenos Ayres); Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. viii. p. 210 (Entrerios). Phacellodomus maculipectus, Cab. J. f. O. 1883, p. 109 (?).
Description.—Above olive-brown, front chestnut; tail brownish chestnut; beneath whitish, throat, breast, and flanks washed and mottled with bright reddish brown; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers bright cinnamon; bill and feet horn-colour: whole length 7·3 inches, wing 2·6, tail 3·2. Female similar.