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DENDEOCOLAPTIDiE. 



greyish olive ; throat white ; breast slightly mottled with greyish 

 olive : under wing-coverts and inner edges of remigcs bright cin- 

 namomoous ; bill greenish grey, with a white blotch on the lower 

 mandible; feet plumbeous: whole length 0-3 inches, wing 3'1, 

 tail 2-8. 



Hah. British Guiana. 



This species seems to me to bo decidedly different from P. erythro- 

 cercHs, although closely allied. It is distinguished by the want of 

 any sign of the superciliary stripe and by the slightly mottled 

 breast. 



«. c? ad. sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana Sclater Coll. 



( Whitely). 



b. 2 ad. sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana Sclater Coll. (Type 



( Whitely). of the species.) 



c. Jr. sk. Surinam (C. Bartlett). Sclater Coll. 



28. THRIPADECTES. 



Type. 



Thripadectes, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 167 (1862) T. flammulatus. 



This is a rather isolated form, from the Andes of Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, remarkable for its short strong and 

 much compressed beak and flammulated plumage. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Under plumage striped. 



1 15ack flammulated 1. flammulatus, p. 102. 



] Back almost unspotted 2. scrutator, p. 10.3. 



B. Under plumage dull cinnamon-red 3. virgaticeps, p. 103. 



1. Thripadectes flammulatus. 



Anabates flammulatus, Eiiton, Cuntr. Orn. 1849, p. 131 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1855, p. 141. ' 'P ' 



Thripadectes flammulatus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 157 ; Scl. et Salv. 



Nomencl. p. 65 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 521 (Antioquia). 

 Thripadectes briceni, Berl. MS. 



Blackish brown, flammulated above and beneath with long 

 yellowish fulvous shaft-stripes ; wings blackish, margined with dark 

 rufous ; lesser wing-coverts slightly striped : rump, tail, and crissum 

 pure chestnut : Avhole length 9 inches, wing 3*5, tail 4. 



Hab. Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



I am unable to distinguish the Venezuelan form, which Graf v. 

 Berlepsch has named T. hriceni. 



a. Ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela (BriceTio). Sclater Coll. 



{Thri2ia(lectes briceyii, Berl. MS.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Bogota. Eyton Coll. 



(Typo of the species.) 

 d. Ad, sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



