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e'^ Bill with lower mandible entirely whitish or pale yellowish, the upper 

 brown or horn-color edged with paler; top of head and fore-neck (es- 

 pecially former) distinctly streaked with bnffy. Ilahilat. — North- 

 eastern Brazil (Bahia, &c.) 7. D. iiirdina (LiciiT.)- 



d^ Exposed snrface of remiges not conspicuously less rufesceut or castaneous 

 than tail, but couspicuouly different in color from back. 

 eK Bill wholly black or dusky, or with only a little whitish on gonys. 

 /'. Larger (wing 3.90 or more, tail 3.60 or more, exposed culmen .95 or more); 

 a distinct postocular (or supra-auricular) streak of huffy, and fore- 

 neck with narrow huffy streaks. 

 gK Pileum, hiud-ueck, back, scapulars, and rump raw-umber brown, the 

 under parts similar but paler ; supra-auricular streak broader, deep 

 buff or ochraceous; wing 3.90-4.00, tail 3.70-4.00, exposed culmen 

 .95-1.05, tarsus .92. Habitat.— Bolivia. 8 I), atrirontris Lafr. & D'Orb. 

 g''. Pileum, etc., clear olive-brown ; snpra-auricular streak narrower, pale 

 huffy ; wing 4.00-4.20, tail 3.60-4.15, exposed culmen 1.00-1.10, tarsus 

 .92-.95. Habitat. — Lower Amazon (Diamantina). 



D. 7-ufo-oUvacea Ridgw. 

 f*. Smaller (wing not more than 3.70, tail less than 3.25, exposed culmen 

 not more than .90); no trace of postocular (or supraloral) streak, nor 

 of paler streaks on fore neck. Pileum, hind-neck, back, scapulars, 

 and rump deep biater-brown ; remiges deep dark chestnut ; wing 

 3.65-3.70, tail 3.15-3.20, exposed culmen .85-.90, tarsus, .92-.98. Habi- 

 tat.— Lower Amazon (Diamantina) 10. D. casfanoptera Rivow. 



^. Bill with lower mandible chiefly whitish or pale yellowish (the basal por- 

 tion and upper edge brown or dusky). 

 /•. Larger (wing more than 4.00). chin and upper throat whitish in strong 

 contrast wuth circumjacent umber-brown, under parts dull raw- 

 umber brown, changing abruptly to rufous-chestnut on under tail- 

 coverts, the greater and middle wing-coverts deep chestnut, like sec- 

 ondaries; length about 7.75, wing 4.10, tail 3.60, exposed culmen 

 .93, gouys .60, depth of bill at nostrils .25, tarsus 1.00. Habitat.— 



Guiana; Upper Amazon ? 11. D. merula (hiCHT.). ? 



/2. Smaller (wing less than 4.00), chin and upper throat dull grayish 

 tawny-brown, under parts tawny -brown only slightly more rufescent 

 on under tail-coverts, the greater and middle wing-coverts interme- 

 diate in color between chestnut of secondaries and deep tawny-brown 

 of back; length about 6.80, wing 3.70-3.95, tail 3.10-3.40, exposed 

 culmen .88-. 98, gonys .55-.60, depth of bill at nostrils .25-28, tar- 

 sus .85-.95. ifa&i^af.— Guiana, Trinidad, and Tobago. 



12. D. vieruloides (Lafr.). 



SYNONYMY AND REMARKS. 



1. Dendrocincla anabatina Scl. 



onjrncincla aiinbatina ScL., P. Z. S., 1859, 54, pi. 150 (Omoa, Brit. Honduras).— 



Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1868, 54 (Mexico and Guat. ; subgen. Dendromanes) ; 



Norn. Neotr., 1873, 67 (Mexico-Panama). 

 Dendromanes anabatiiius Scl., P. Z. S., 1859, 382 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; 



Catal., 1862, 161 (Oaxaca).— ScL. «& Salv., Ibis, 1860, 35 (Coban, Guat.). 

 Dendrocops anabatimia Scl. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 118 (Omoa). 



Specimens examined are from Mirador, Vera Cruz (1) ; Protrero, Vera 

 Cruz (1); Guatemala (2— one from Cboctun, Vera Paz) ; Los Sabalos, 

 Nicaragua (1), and Chiriqui, Veragua (1). These exhibit some differ- 



