124 DENDROCOLAPTID^. 



with large shaft-spots of pale fulvous, which are slightly margined 

 with blackish ; upper tail-covcrts and tail ferruginous ; wings black, 

 slightly margined with ferruginous : beneath brown, throat pale 

 fulvous white, breast and belly covered with large oval spots of pale 

 fulvous, which are slightly margined with blackish ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers fulvous : whole length 

 5-8 inches, wing 2-6, tail 2'8. 



Hah. Colombia and Ecuador. 



This species is at once distinguishable from all the preceding by 

 its clearly-spotted back. 



37. GLYPHORHYNCHUS. .j^^p^ 



Glyplioryuchus, Hfa.r. Beitr. iii. p. 1149 (1831) CI. cuneatus. 



Sphenorvuehus, Max. op. cit. p. 1278 (1831) G. cuneatus. 



Zenophasia, Siv. An. in Menag. p. 351 (1838) G. cuneatus. 



Sittacilla, Less. Compl. de Buff", ix. p. 135 (1837) G. cuneatus. 



Glyphorliynclius is at once recognizable amongst the other Dendro- 

 colaptino' by its short stout wedge-like biU and upturned gonys. 

 It ranges from Southern Mexico to S.E. Brazil. 



1. Glyphorhynchus cuneatus. 



Uendrocolaptes cuneatus, Licht. Abh. Akacl. Berl. 1820, p. 204, t. 2. 



fig. 2, et 1821, p. 266; id. Doubl. p. 17; Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 89, 



pi. 91. fig. 3. 

 Glyphorynchus ruiicaudus, Ma.v. Beitr. iii. p. 1150. 

 Zenophasia platyryncha, Sio. An. in Menay. p. 352. 

 Glyphorhynchus cuneatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 28 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 209 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 19 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 142 



(Bogota), 1&58, p. 63 (S. Mexico) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 101; Laivr. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 320 (Colombia) ; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1860, 



p. 35 (Guatemala) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 574 (L. Amazon), 1873, 



p. 270 (E. Peru), et 1879, p. 523 (Antioquia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 67; 



Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 205 (Guatemala), et 1885, p. 421 (Brit. Guiana); 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 331 (Colombia) ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 385 



(Para) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 60 (Costa Eica) ; Taez. P. Z. S. 



1882, p. 27 (N.E. Peru); mdte, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 613 (rep. Arg.); 



Ilidytv. P. U. S. N. M.Vi. p. 404 (Nicaragua) ; Berl. J.f. O. 1887, 



p. 132 (Paraguay) ; Scl. et Huds. Ary. Orn. i. p. 199. 

 Glyphorhynchus pectoralis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 299 (Ecuador) ; Scl. 



et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 354 (Panama) ; Laivr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



viii. p. 180 (Nicaragua), et ix. p. 106 (Costa Rica); Frantz. J.f. 0. 



1869, p. 305 (Costa Rica); Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 192 (Veragua). 

 Glvi^horhyuchus major, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 369 (Mexico) ; id. Cat. 



A. B. p. 161. 

 Glyphorhynchus castelnaudi, Des Murs, Voy. Casteln., Ois. p. 47, 



pi. 15. fig. 2 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 141 (Ecuador) ; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 101 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 750 (E. Peru). 

 Glyphorhynchus cuneatus castelnaudi, Bei-l, et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, 



