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on the head, clear buff on the mantle, exactly as in eytoni from Borba; underneath 
some are like guttatordes, while others are not distinguishable from eytoni. In 
the shape and colour of the bill they nearly agree with guttatoides, the upper 
mandible being greyish horn-colour, though somewhat darker than in specimens 
from the left bank (Humaytha, Marmellos, ete.), but not black as in eytoni. Of. 
also Nov. Zool. xiv. pp, 59-60. 
184. Dendrornis elegans Pelz. 
Dendrornis elegans Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras, i. p. 63 (1897.—Engenho do Gama, Rio Guaporé *, 
No. 251. ¢ ad., Calama, 22. vii. 1907.—Wing 99 ; tail 83; bill 32 mm. 
Nos. 108, 245, 348, 355. 2 ad., 2 imm. and juv., Calama, 25. vi., 20. vii, 
7, 8. viii. 1907.—Wing 90—96 ; tail 75—80 ; bill 283—30 mm. 
No, 232. ¢ imm., Calama, 15. vii. 1907.—Wing 103; tail 82 ; bill 31} mm. 
Nos. 796, 809. $ ad., 2? imm., Allianca, 20, 30. xi. 1907,—Wing 92—95 ; tail 
76—79 ; bill 294—304 mm. 
No. 1016. ¢ ad., Maruins, 14. vii. 1908.—Wing 101; tail 82; bill 29 mm. 
Nos. 937, 1014. 2 ad., Maruins, 21. vi. 13. vii. 1908.—Wing 89, 96; tail 
74, 80; bill 28, 304 mm. 
“Tris brown, feet plumbeous, bill grey, above darker.” 
Some of these specimens I have compared with the types in the Vienna 
Museum, and found them perfectly agreeing. D. elegans is a strongly marked 
species, not in any way to be confounded with D. insignis Hellm., which has a 
more western range. It is well characterized by having the whole back, from the 
nape down to the chestnut rump, covered with large, pearl-shaped spots of buff, 
and by the distinct, though narrow, buff shaft-lines or subapical dots on the lesser 
and median, sometimes also on the greater upper wing-coverts ; the bend of the 
wing is largely cinnamon-rafous ; the lateral interscapular feathers are spotted with 
buff like the back, all these pale markings being conspicuously edged with blackish ; 
the nearly straight bill is dusky horn-colour, yellowish towards the base of the 
lower mandible. 
D. insignis Hellm.+ has the pale markings above deeper in colour, narrower 
and longer, more tear-shaped, and confined to the upper back; the upper wing- 
coverts are uniform olive-brown ; the bill decidedly curved, with the greater part 
of the upper mandible whitish. This species ranges from Northern Peru through 
Keuador to Eastern Colombia. 
D. juruana Shering,{ from the Rio Jurud, agrees with D. insignis in the 
uniform upper wing-coverts and in the coloration of the upper parts, but the 
wedge-shaped buff markings of the chest are very much smaller and not extended 
over the lower breast, and the bill is shaped and coloured as in D. elegans. I 
am greatly indebted to Prof. von Ihering for the loan of two typical specimens, an 
adult and an immature male. 
D. spixii (Less.)§ is the eastern representative of D. elegans, from which it 
mainly differs in the shape of the pale spots on the mantle, uniform olive-brown 
* Pelzeln mentions also Manaqueri, but there are no specimens from this locality in the Vienna 
Museum. 
T Bull. B. O. C. xv. p. 55 (March 1905.—Samiria, N.E. Peru). 
t Revist. Mus. Paulist. vi. 1904. p. 486: D. ocellata juruana (1905.—Rio Juru4). 
§ Picolaptes Spixii Lesson, Traité d’ Orn. livr. 4. p. 314 (September 1830.—based on Dendrocolapte s 
tenuirostris (nec Licht.) Spix, Av. Bras. i. 1824. p, 88. pl. 91. fig. 2; Brazil). 
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