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Hartert has compared our skins with the type of Pkolaptes notata Eyt. iu the 

 British Mnseum, and found them to agree perfectly. 



Berlepsch has compared (!herrie's skins with Natterer's specimens from Mato- 

 grosso (D. similis Pelz.), and has found them also to agree perfectly with the latter. 

 Berlepsch has further examined the type of Dendocolaptes obsoletus of Lichtenstein 

 in the Berlin Museum, and has stated that it comes nearest to our birds, but differs 

 by the rnfescent stripes on the back, being less conspicuously (or not at all) 

 bordered laterally by black. More specimens from Para will show perhaps that 

 this is an individual character, and that D. obaohta is a species inhabiting a large 

 area, viz. Amazonia, Matogrosso, and the Orinoco region. D. midtiguttata Lafr., 

 from Upper Amazonia, united by Sclater with D. similis of Pelzeln, is apparently 

 distinguishable by its slightly more rufescent undersurface of the body, somewhat 

 stronger bill, and longer wing.* 



222. Dendroplex picus (Gm.) 

 Oriolu.'i Picus Gm., Sijst. Nat. i, 1. (1788) p. 384 (ex Buff.— Cayenne). 



Perico : cJc? 20. xi., 23. ix. ; ? ? 24. ix. 20. xi. '98. 



Maipnres : cJc? !S, 10, 14. xii. '98 ; ? ? 12, 23, 31. xii. '98. 



" Iris Vandyke (hazel) ; feet dusky greenish, sage-green, pea-green, greyish 

 pea-green ; bill whitish horn ; dusky grey at base of maxilla ; vinaceous pink, 

 pale greyish horn ; slate-black at base of mandible." 



(Nos. 11201, 11219, 11225, 11289, 11290, 11291, 11391, 11410, 11437, 11469, 

 11689, 11667 Cherrie coll.) 



223. Dendroplex picirostris (Lafr.) 



Dciidriicnhiiites pwirostris Lafr., Rev. Zool. 1847 p. 76 (typ. ex Rio Hacha, Colombia). 



Altagracia : c?c? 9, 16. xi., 1, 7, 15. xii. '97 ; 6, 13, 28. i. '98 ; ? ? 4, 8, 19. xi., 

 11, 14, 15, 21. xii. '97 ; 13, 15, 19. i. '98. 



Caicara: Si ad. 14. ii., 4. iv. '98 ; ?? 14. ii. '98 ; <? jnv. 2. viii. '08. 



" Iris Vandyke, chocolate, seal-brown ; feet sage-green, olive ; bill vinaceous 

 pink, horn-colour, pale horn. 



(Nos. 8466, 8516, 8543, 8675, 8742, 8955, 9071, 9169, 9204, 9233, 9234, 9330, 

 9.543, 9678, 9679, 9680, 9723, 9745, 9883, 9884, 10054, 10055, 10056, 10608, 11067 

 Cherrie coll.) 



Ciudad Bolivar : ? ? (?) 10. 27. xii., 6. viii. '98 (Klages). 



There is a certain amount of variation in the more or less rufous or olive-brown 

 tinge both below and above, and the specimens from Ciudad Bolivar are mostly 

 somewhat more olive. 



The young male from Caicara (no. 11067 in Tring Museum) is like the adult 

 birds, only the bill is much darker (" dusky blackish " !) and much shorter. 



224. Xiphocolaptes orenocensis sp. nov. 



X. corpore supra obscure olivaceo rufo-brunneo, pileo nigrescente, pilei 

 nuchaeque plumis lineis angustis fnlvo-albis scapalibus instructis ; gula rnfescenti 

 alba, corpore inferiore reliquo capitisque lateribus fulvescenti rufo-brunneis, colli 



* The type of D, viultufuttata came from Fonteboa. Berlepsch has a specimen from tiaraya^u, 

 E. Peru, which he believes to be identical with it. 



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