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1-sr. ] PROCEEDINGS OE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 1 T) I 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEV7 GENUS OF DBNDROCOLAPTINE BIRD 

 FROM THE LOWER AMAZON. 



My KOnEKT tiimiW W. 



Berlepschia, gen. uov. 



Generic Characters. — Most like rseudocoJaptcH liEiciiENiiACii,* 

 but witli wing- more pointed (first quill lougcr than iUlh instead of 

 shorter than tenth), feet much weaker (tarsus not lonj^er than bill from 

 froutal leathers), tail-feathers narrower and more pointed at tii)s, and 

 coloration very different (type species with lower parts stieaked and 

 spotted with black and white, top of head and hindueck black streaked 

 with white, back scapulars, greater })ortion of wings, rump, upper tail- 

 co verts, and tail plain cinnamon-rufous or rusty). 



Type, Ficolaptes rikeri RiDGW.t 



The type species of this new genus was at (irst referred to Ficolapfes, 

 but Count von Berlepsch, to whom it was sent for examination, has 

 kindly pointed out its radical differences from that genus and its reia- 

 tionshi[) to Pseudocolaptes^ facts which are at once obvious wii^n tiie 

 proper com[)arisou is made. Ju selecting a name for this new genus, I 

 can think of none more fitting than that given at the head of tliis articjle 

 as a slight recognition of Count von Berlepsch's eminent services in 

 the careful elucidation of ISIeotropical ornithology. 



Smithsonian Institution, March 9, 1887. 



* r.seudocolapies Reich., Haiulb. Orn., i, 185".?, 209. Type, i'. vemichvximnmeuft Rkicu., 

 = Anahatcs hoissorieantii Lafr. 

 \ PieoJnplcs rikeri Ridgw., Proc. IT. S. Nat,. Mns., ix, NovcniLcr 'JO, 188(5. r>2'.i. 



