42. HYLEXETASTES. 



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2. Dendrexetastes devillii. 



Dendi'ocolaptes devillei, Lafr. R. Z. 1850, p. 102 ; Dcs Murs, Votj. 

 Cdstehi., Ois. p. 42, t. xiii. tig. 1 ; Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 22. 

 Cladoscopus devillei, Reichenh. Handb. p. 192. 

 Dendrexetastes devillei, Tacz, Orn. Per. ii. p. 175. 



Above brown ; wings, rump, and tail ferruginous ; head and 

 upper neck with a few pale narrow shaft-stripes, obsolete in some 

 specimeus : beneath pale brown ; throat and fore neck lighter, and 

 marked more or less with pale fulvous shaft-spots, which are slightly 

 margined with black ; bill pale horn-colour : whole length 9 inches, 

 wing 4'2, tail 4-4. Female similar. 



Hub. Upper Amazonia. 



Similar to D. temmincki, but with the throat-spots smaller and 

 narrower, and the belly uniform brown without any indications of 

 cross-bands. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons ( If'/iifcli/). Sclater Coll. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons ( Whitely). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 f. 5ad.sk. Samiria, Upper Amazous (i/f<w.r«-e//j. Salviu-Godman Cull. 



42. HYLEXETASTES. 

 Hylexetastes, Sol. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 34 



Type. 

 H. perroti. 



This monotype from Cayenne connects Dcndrcvefastes with XipJto- 

 colajjtes. The bill is thick as in the former genus, but longer and 

 stouter at the base ; the tip is not so much hooked. But this organ 

 is not nearly so long, slender, and incurved as in Xiphocolcqites. 

 The gonys is nearly straight, the commissure slightly incurved. 



Bill of Hylexetastes perroti. 



1. Hylexetastes perroti. 



Dendrocolaptes periotii, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 80, et 1850, 

 id. May. d. Zool. 1844, Ois. pi. liv. ; Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1852 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 142 (Bogota). 



Dendrocincla peiToti, Bp. Consp. i. p. 209. 



Xipliocolaptes perrotii, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 164. 



Dendrexetastes perrotti, Scl. cf Sal v. Nomencl. p. 68. 



Hylexetastes perroti, Scl. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 34. 



p. 101 ; 

 2, p. 22; 



