- (?) Synallaxis brachyura Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1843, 290 (Colombia; types now in coll. Boston Soc. N. H.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 141 (Bogotá, Colombia); 1874, 26 (Bogotá, Colombia; crit.). — Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 322 (crit.).
- Synallaxis pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 191 (Bogotá, Colombia; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1860, 88 (Nanegal, w. Ecuadór), 278 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuadór; crit.), 294 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuadór; crit.); 1874, 10, part (monogr.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 151 (Bogotá; Nanegal and Babahoyo, w. Ecuadór); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, part. — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 354 (Panamá; crit.); 1879, 521 (Remédies, Antioquía, Colombia; descr. eggs). — Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 560 (Chimbo, w. Ecuadór; crit.); 1884, 298 (Cayandeléd, w. Ecuadór, 4,000 ft.). — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 94 (Yaguachi, Ecuadór). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 490 (Chimbo and Paramba, n. w. Ecuadór; crit.). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1899, no. 362, 19 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuadór). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 26 (Loma del León, Panamá).
- S[ynallaxis] pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 192 (Colombia).
- [Synallaxis] pudica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 63, part. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 55, part (Panamá; Colombia; Ecuadór).
- Synallaxis brunneicaudalis (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 319 (Lion Hill, Panamá).
SYNALLAXIS PUDICA NIGRIFUMOSA (Lawrence).
SOOTY SYNALLAXIS.
Similar to S. p. pudica but coloration decidedly darker, the tail very dark sooty brown or brownish black, back, etc., deep sepia brown, slate color of anterior under parts decidedly darker, and rufous-chestnut of pileum and wings deeper.
Young.[1] — Above, including whole pileum, deep olive-brown, the wings, however, mostly rufescent but the color either duller or more tawny than in adults; tail dark sooty brown (as in adults); chin and upper throat dull yellowish white or pale yellowish gray, the lower throat dark yellowish gray or olive-gray; rest of under parts light olive or grayish olive, paling into pale yellowish gray on abdomen, and changing into olive-brown or brownish olive on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts.
Adult male. — Length, (skins), 135-158 (150); wing, 52.5-62 (56.4); tail, 61.5-72.5 (69.6); culmen, 14-15.5 (14.6); tarsus, 20-22 (20.9); middle toe, 15-16 (15.3).[2]
