104 DENDKOCOLAPTlDiE. 



Above olivaceous brown, darker on tbe head and upper back, and 

 marked with narrow shaft-stripes of palo fidvous ; wings blackish 

 with chestnut margins ; tail chestnut : beneath pale fulvous white, 



Beak of Ancistrops strigilahis. 



with obsolete cinereous striations on the breast and sides of belly ; 

 under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-ieathers cinnamo- 

 meous: whole length 7"5 inches, wing 3'6, tail 3. Female similar. 



Hah. Upper Amazonia and Eastern Ecuador. 



Graf V. Pelzeln has examined the type of Spix's ThamnopMlus 

 stfigilatus, and ascertained that it is referable to this species. Spix 

 gives no locality. 



a. Ad. sk. Eastern Peru. Sclater Coll. 



(Type of A. lineaticeps.) 



b. Ad. ?k. Eastern Peru. Purchased. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Nauta, Peruvian Amazons Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Bartlett). 



d. (S ad. sk. Chamicui'os, Peruvian Amazons Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Bartlett). 



e. Ad. sk. Chamicuros, Peruvian Amazons Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Hauxwell). 



f. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



30. HELIOBLETUS. 



Type. 

 Heliobletus, Reichenh. Hanclh. sp. Orn. p. 201 (1853). II. superciliosus. 



This is a small form closely allied to AnabazenojJS, remarkable for 

 its weak feet and small pointed bill, with the gonys slightly as- 

 cending. It is restricted to S.E. Brazil. 



1. Heliobletus superciliosus. 



Dendrocolaptes superciliosus, Zicht. Abh. Akad. Berl. 1818, p. 204. 



Dendrocopus pyrrhopliius, Vieill. Enc. Mith. p. 02(3. 



Heliobletus superciliosus, Beichenb. Handb. p. 201 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. 



iii. p. 32 ; 8cl. Cat. A. B. p. 156 ; 8cl. etSalv. Nomencl. p. 66. 

 Anabates xeuops, Temm. in Mus. Lugd. 

 Anabates coutaminatus, Licht. in Mus. Berol. ; Felz. Sitz. Akad. 



Wien, xxxiv. p. 129. 

 Heliobletus contaminatus, Bei-l. J.f. O. 1887, p. 119 (Paraguay). 



Above earthy brown ; broad superciliaries pale fulvous ; cap 

 blackish brown, with earthy-brown shaft-spots ; wings blackish, with 

 edgings like the back : tail chestnut : beneath pale fulvous, middle 



