NO. 1281. BIRDS COLLECTED IN PARA G ITA Y—OBERHOLSER. 133 



De><c7'iption. — Type, adult male, No. 173384, U.S.N, M.; Sai)ucay, 

 Paragua}', June 11, 1900; William T. Foster. Upper surface almost 

 uniform dull, dark olive o^reen, many of the feathers with very narrow 

 dusky margins producing a slight squamate effect; tail bright chestnut, 

 unmarked; wings dark brown, the innermost secondaries, outer vanes 

 of primaries and exposed surface of all the superior wing-coverts 

 rufescent olive brown, the inner margins of all the quills deep 

 ochraceous; lores and superciliaiy stripe rich ochraceous, the former 

 mixed with olive, the latter somewhat paler posteriorly; sides of head 

 and neck dull olive green, much streaked with vellowish and ])uffy 

 white; chin and upper throat pale naples yellow, the feathers with 

 small terminal spots of olive; rest of lower surface dull olive green, 

 streaked with yellowish white, greenish white, and pale ochraceous, 

 most broadly along the median line, most narrowly on flanks and sides 

 where restricted to line shaft lines, all this streaking distinct, as in 

 Xenlcopsls oleaghieus; crissum with a rufous tinge; lining of wing 

 dark ochraceous. "Iris brown." Length of wing, 75 mm. ; tail. 7»') mm. ; 

 exposed culmen, 16 mm.; tarsus, 23 mm.; middle toe, 17 nun. 



This new species, of which l)ut a single specimen is in the collection, 

 is apparently most closely allied to Xenicopsis oleaglneux (Sclater),^ 

 but compared with some of the original specimens of that species it 

 differs as above stated. With X. rufosiqx'rcilicUiin (Laf resnaye) " it 

 can scarcely be confused, ])eing so very different in its dull olive green 

 instead of rufescent olive ]>rown, both al)Ove and below% and in the 

 very much more sharply defined markings of the ventral surface. 

 Reichenbach's Clchlocolaptes ochrohlejjharus^ and his Cichlocolaptes 

 adKjyersns^ belong undoubtedly under Xenicopsh rvfosiq^erciUattis, so 

 that the present bird appears never to have been described. 



The type of the genus Anahme7wps is clearly Sitta fu)<ca Vieillot 

 { = Anabatoides fuscus Auct.) for which this name should be used, 

 leaving, as Dr. Sharpe has indicated,-^ Xeiricopsis Cabanis and Heine 

 for the group commonly known as A?i(ihaze?top.s. 



PHILYDOR RUFUS (Vieillot). 



Dendrocopus rufus Y1EIL1.0T, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVI, 1818, p. 119. 

 P/aZ?/dor ru/n.s- Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., II, 1859, p. 29. 



One specimen, apparently identical with a Brazilian example. " Iris 

 brown." 



iProc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 188.3, p. 654. 



•^Mag. de Zool., 1882, Ois., pi. vii. 



^Handbuch der Spec. Orn., 1851, p. 174, i-l. nwvii, t\<s. :5H88. 



*Idem, p. 174. 



=^Hand-Li.«t Gen. and Spec. Birds, III, 1901, p. 70. 



