DENDROCOLAPTID.*:. 



b'. Tarsal scutes divided. 



I Bill longer, more incurved 4. Upucerthia, p. 10. 



I Bill shorter, less incurved 5. Cxnclodes, p. 21. 



( Bill quite straight 6, Henicobnis, p. 2(). 



d. Rectrices slightlj' spiny. 



( Tail long; tarsal scutes divided 7. Clibanounis, p. 27. 



) Tail short ; tarsal scutes uuited 8. I.ochmias, p. 28. 



1. GEOBATES. 



Type. 



Geobates, Sio. An. in Men. p. 322 (1838) G. poecilopterus. 



The short tail and short beak are the chief structural characters 

 of this genus. The secondaries are much lengthened and nearly as 

 long as the primaries, and give it a Lark-like appearance. 



The form is peculiar to the campos of S.E. Brazil. 



Under surface of left wing of Geobatcs 2)(ecilopterus. 



1. Geobates poecilopterus. 



Anthus poecilopterus, Max. Beifr. iii. p. 633 (1830). 



Geobates pcEcilopterus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 205, pi. xxi.; Pelz. Orn. 



Bvaa. p. 35 ; Scl. et Sah: Nomencl. p. 61 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 332. 

 Geobates brevicauda, Sw. An. in Men. p. 322 (1838) ; Cah. Mus. 



Ilein. ii. p. 22 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 215; Rdchenb. Handb. p. 215. 

 Geositta brevicauda, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 131. 

 Anthus fuscus, Bttrm. Sijst. Ueb. iii. p. 120. 



Above brown ; lores and sides of head whitish ; superciliaries 

 pale fulvous; rump more rufous; remiges bright rufous, the pri- 

 maries tipped and banded with blackish, secondaries with a broad 

 subapical blackish baud ; coverts and outer secondaries like the 

 back; tail bright rufous, with a broad, blackish, subapical band: 

 beneath fulvous ; throat white ; breast minutely freckled with 

 brown ; flanks ferruginous ; under wing-covcrts ferruginous red, 



