112 BENDEOCOLAPTID^. 



Above ferruginous brown ; head blackish, with fulvous striations ; 

 superciliaries fulvous white ; wings black, crossed by a median band 

 of ferruginous and tipped with the same colour ; outer secondaries 

 like the back ; tail bright ferruginous, third and fourth and some- 

 times fifth outer pairs of rectrices with large black blotches on their 

 inner webs : beneath greyish olive, definitely striated with white ; 

 throat white ; stripe beneath the cheeks pure white ; under wing- 

 coverts pale cinnamomeous : whole length 5 inches, wing 2*6, tail 

 2*2. Female similar. 



Hab. Costa Eica, Veragua, and South America down to S. Brazil. 



a. (S ad. sk. Costa Ilica (Carmiol). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Southern slope of the Volcano Salvin-Godman Coll. 



of Chiriqui {Arce). 



c. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Medellin, U. S. C. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(Salmon). 



d. Ad. sk. Santa Elena, Autioquia. T. K. Salmon [C.]. 

 (>. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Balzar Mountains, Ecuador Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{lUinr/ioorth). 



ij. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'h. $ ad. sk. Nauta, E. Peru. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



?'. Ad. sk. Tambillo, Peru ('S'tofcH»«««). Sclater Coll. 



j,k,l,m. Ad.sk. Bahi a, Brazil (TFMc/uve?-). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



n. Ad. sk. Rio, Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



0, p. Ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. H. Smith). 



q, r. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



s, t. Ad. sk. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. 



u. Ad. st. Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.]. 



33. ANABATOIDES. 



Type. 

 Anabatoides, Barm. Si/st. Ueb. iii. p. 23 (1856) A. fuscus. 



This Brazilian monotype combines the general plumage of Auto- 

 molus with the bill of Xenops, from which, however, it may be 

 distinguished by the slightly sloping culmen and the comparatively 

 larger feet. 



1. Anabatoides fuscus. 



Sitta fusca, Vieill. Anal. p. 68. 



Sphenura albicollis, Licht. Doubl. p. 41. 



Xenops anabatoides, Temm. PI. Col. 150. fig. 2 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 211. 



Xenops fuscus, Lufr. Mag. de Zool. 1832, Ois. sub tab. 7. 



Anabazenops fuscus, Hnrtl. Verz. Mvs. Brem. p. 27. 



Anabatoides fuscus, Burm. Syst. Ueh. iii. p. 24 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. 



p. 158 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 66 ; Bed. J. f. 0. 1873, p. 253 



(S. Brazil). 

 Xenicopsis fusca. Cab. et Hein. Mzis, Hem. ii. p. 32, 



Above brown ; long superciliaries white ; tail chestnut : beneath 

 paler, more yellowish in the middle : throat and sides of neck white ; 



