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upper wing-coverts, and in having the foreneck and breast marked with broad, 
oblong spots of buff. Moreover, there is hardly any rufescent tinge on the bend 
of the wing. The shape of the bill is exactly alike in the two species. D. spixit 
ranges from Parad westwards to Santarem, right bank of the Rio Tapajéz. Thanks 
to the kindness of Dr. Charles W. Richmond, I have been enabled to examine the 
type of D. fraterculus Ridgw.,* and found it identical with Parad examples. On 
the left bank of the Rio Tapajéz, however, D. elegans is met with, for Miss 
Snethlage has lately obtained a specimen at Villa Braga (Journ. f. Orn. 1908. 
p- 508). 
The range of D. elegans is thus as follows: 
Right bank of the Rio Madeira: Calama, Allianca; Maruins, Rio Machados 
(Hoffmanns); Engenho do Gama, Rio Guaporé (Natterer). Left bank of the 
Rio Tapajéz : Villa Braga (Snethlage). 
Although I expect that D. elegans, D. juruana, D. spixii, and D. insignis 
will prove to be geographical modifications of a single species, it would be unwise 
to use trinomials until their relations are better understood. D. pardalotus 
(Vieill.), from the Guianas, Orinoco region, and Rio Negro, appears also to belong 
to this group. 
[185. Dendrornis ocellata (Spix). 
“ Dendrocolaptes ocellatus (guttatus)” Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 88. tab. 91. fig. 1 (1824.—“in sylvis 
Piauhy,” errore! cf. Hellmayr, Abhandl. Bayer. Ak. Wissensch. II. Cl. xxii. 3. 1906. p. 634). 
Dendrornis ocellata Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras. i. p. 45 (Borba). 
Natterer obtained a good series near Borba, lower Rio Madeira. The 
specimens ate practically identical with Spix’s type in the Munich Museum. 
Though agreeing in shape and colour of bill, D. ocel/ata undoubtedly is specifically 
distinct from D. elegans and its allies. The uniform brown back, with hardly a 
few, hair-like buff shaft-lines on the nape and adjoining portion of the upper mantle, 
serves, together with other characters, to distinguish it at first sight.] 
186. Dendrornis obsoleta multiguttata (Lafr.). 
[Dendrocolaptes obsoletus Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Akad, Wissensch. Berlin a. d. Jahren 1818-19. 
p- 205 (1820.—Pard ; cf. idem, /.c. a. d. J. 1820-21. p. 265).] 
Nasica multiguttatus Lafresnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) ii. p. 417 (1850.—“De Fontiboa, haut 
Amazone et du Brésil”) ; cf. Ménégaux & Hellmayr, Mém, Soc. d’Hist. Nat. Autun xix, 
p. 105 (crit.), 
Dendroplex similis Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras. i. pp. 46, 64 (1867.—Engenho do Gama, Rio Guaporé ; 
Borba, Rio Madeira ; Rio Negro). 
Nos. 124, 278. ? ad. ? imm., Calama, 29. vi., 27. vii. 1907.—Wing 95, 90 ; 
tail 75; bill 25 mm. 
‘Tris dark brown, feet greyish brown, bill grey.” 
Specimens from the Rio Madeira (Calama, Borba) agree perfectly with the types 
from Fonteboa. The original example of D. obsoletus said to be from “ Para” 
differs by the pale stripes on the mantle being not or very indistinctly bordered 
with dusky. Until more specimens with definite localities come to hand it 
cannot be said with certainty whether this character is of any value. Miss Snethlage f 
has lately recorded D. obsoleta from the Tapajéz and Tocantins Rivers, unfortunately 
without any further comment. 
* Dendrornis fraterculus Ridgway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. x. 1887. p. 526 (1888.—Diamantina, near 
Santarem). 
¢ Journ. f. Orn, 1908. pp. 508, 530, 
