Scytalopus (sitalopus)

[NL. (J. Gould, 1836), Gr. σκυτάλη, a kind of serpent, lit. a staff, a cudgel (see scytale ), + (ποδ-) = Ε. foot.] A genus of South American form i car i IMG:content-0418.jpg:[graphic][merged small] oid pa erine birds, of the family Pteroptochidæ. There are several species, as S. magellanicus, curiously similar to wrens in general appearance and habits, though belonging to a different suborder of birds. Also called Sylviaxis.