(WHITE'S SPINE-TAIL.)
+Synallaxis whitii+, _Scl. Ibis_, 1881, p. 600, pl. xvii. fig. 2;
_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 611 (Salta).
_Description._--Above dark brown, lores, and superciliaries white;
wings and tail chestnut red; beneath cinnamomeous, paler on the
middle of the belly; large spot in the middle of the throat black;
inner margins of wing-feathers and under wing-coverts cinnamomeous;
bill black, feet pale hazel: whole length 5·7 inches, wing 2·5, tail
2·6.
_Hab._ Northern Argentina.
White obtained a single example of this new species near Oran in
November 1880. It is most nearly allied to _S. scutata_ of Brazil.