140 DENDROCOLAPTID^. 



/. cJad.sk. San Esteban, Venezuela (Goer%). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (I. cS ad. sk. Niieva Andalusia, Venezuela Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Goen'itff). 



41. DENDREXETASTES. ^^^^ 



Dendrexetastes, Ei/ton, Contr. Orn. 18.')1, p. 76 D. tenuuincld. 



Cladoscopus, Hcic'hciib. Handh. d. sp. Orn. jj. 102 (1853; D. tenimiucki. 



Bill of Beiidrcxetastes deviUii. 



This curiously modified form of Dendrocolaptimi', with a short 

 stout bill and the upper mandible slightly hooked, occurs in two 

 phases in Cayenne and Amazonia. The gonys is quite straight, the 

 commissure slightly incurved. 



Key to the Species. 



A. BeUy with blackish cross hands 1. temminchi, p. 140. 



B. Belly uniform brown . , 2. deviJlii, p. 141. 



1 . Dendrexetastes temmiucki. 



Dendrocolaptes temminckii, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 14-5, t. iv. ; 



Ei/fon, C'tmfr. Orn. 1852, p. 21. 

 Dendrexetastes temmincki, Sclater, P. Z. S. 185.5, pp. 77, 142 (Bogota) ; 



Set. et Salv. Nomoicl. p. 68. 

 Oladoscopus temmiucki, JReichb. Handb. p. 192. 

 Dendrexetastes capitoides, Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 76, et 1852, 



p. 25. 



Above brown ; wings, rump, and tail ferruginous brown ; a few 

 narrow shaft-stripes on the iuterscapulium white: beneath brown; 

 breast marked with large and conspicuous white shaft-stripes 

 which are slightly margined with black ; belly crossed by narrow 

 blackish cross-bands : under wing-coverts and inner margins of 

 wing-feathers rich cinuamomcous ; bill pale plumbeous white : whole 

 length 9 inches, wing 4*2, tail 4*5. 



Hah. Cayenne. 



a. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Purchased. 



