/ O DENDKOCOLAPTIDJE. 



hnrcU'iied. It is quite a different form from the preceding genera, 

 imd is found only in the elevated Andean districts of tSouth and 

 Central America. 



Key to the Sjpccies. 



A. Neck-tufts white ; primaries and wing-coverts 



feiTuginous-uniber 1. boissoiieauti, p. 78. 



B. Neck-tufts creamy buff ; primaries and wiug- 



coverts brownish black 2. laivreyicii, p. 79. 



1 . Pseudocolaptes boissoneauti. 



Anabates boissoueautii, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 104 ; <SW. P. Z. S. 

 1855, p. 141 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 211. 



Anabates auritus, Licht. in Mas. Berol. ; Tsch. Wieym. Arch. 1844, 

 i. p. 294 ; id. Fmm. Per. p. 239. 



Pseudocolaptes semicinnamomeus et Pseudocolaptes auritus, Jieichb. 

 Handb. p. 210. 



Pseudocolaptes boissoneautii, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 88 (Ecuador) ; id. 

 Cat. A. £. p. 156; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 192 (Veragua) ; Sd. et 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 781 (Venezuela), et 1879, p. 521 (Antio- 

 quia), p. 621 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 65 ; Bouc. P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 59 (Costa Eica) ; Pidqiu. P. U. S. K. M. i. p. 254 (Costa Eica) ; 

 Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 528, et 1880, p. 200 (Peru) ; id. Oni. Per. 

 ii. p. 145 ; Berl. J. f. O. 1884, p. 307 (Bucaramanga) ; Berl. et 

 Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 299, et 1885, p. 96 (Ecuador). 



Otipne boissoneaui, Cab. et Hcin. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 30, 



Above dark brown ; head blackish ; upper back covered with 

 large yellowish shaft-spots ; lower back bright rusty red ; wings 

 dark brown, with lighter brown edgings ; tail uniform chestnut- 

 rufous : beneath, throat and lengthened ear-coverts white ; breast 

 more or less varied with blackish feather-margins ; abdomen and 

 under wing-coverts ferruginous : whole length S inches, wing 4, 

 tail 3-8. Female similar. 



Hah. Andes of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. 



a. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Medellin, Antioquia, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. C. {Salmon). 



Santa Elena, U. S. C. (Salmo7i). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Antioquia, U. S. C. (Sahnon). Sclater Coll. 



Bogota. ■ Sclater Coll. 



Bogota. A. G. More, Esq. [P.]. 



Bogota. Salvin-Gudman Coll. 



Colombia. Salvin-Godman Cull. 



Sierra Nevada, Merida, Venezuela Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Goerinff). 



Venezuela {Goerinf/). Sclater Coll. 



Venezuela. Purchased. 



Venezuela. C. Dyson [C.]. 



Puellaro, Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



Vicinity of Quito, Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



San Lucas, Ecuador ( Villagomez). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Andes of Ecuador (Jameson). Jardiue C';"!!. 



Tilotilo, YuDgas, Bolivia (Buchlei/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



