142 DENDROC0L.VPTID.T5. 



Brown : wings, rump, and tail ferruginous re 1 : beneath paler ; 



throat whitish ^ hill reddish : whole length lO'S inches, wing 5-3, 

 tail 4-G. 



Hab. Cayenne. 



a. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Eyton Coll. 



v.',. XIPHOCOLAPTES *. „ 



Type. 



Xiphocolaptes, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 269 X. albicollis. 



This gjnus embraces the largest and strongest members of the 

 subfamily. The species are at once recognizable by their great 

 size, long, strong, compressed bill, with the gonys slightly incurved, 

 the commissure much so, and the tip acute. They are spread over 

 the wooded districts of the Neotropical Region from Southern 

 Mexico to Paraguay, but, except in the case of X. major., the repre- 

 sentative species are very imperfectly differentiated, and there is 

 much individual variation. 



Key to the Species. 



Above brown ; riunp rusty red. 



a. Belly with blackish cross bars. 



) Cross bars very distinct 1 . alhicullis, p. 142. 



I Cross bars less distinct 2. sclateri, p. 143. 



b. Belly with blackish spots 3. promeropirhi/nckus, 



[p. 144. 



c. Belly uniform 4. e/nn/irais. p. 145. 



Above nearly uniform ferruginous 5. major, p. 145. 



1. Xiphocolaptes albicoUis. 



Dendrocopus albicoUis, Vieill. Nom\ Diet. xsvi. p. 117 (1818); /(/. 



Enc. Meth. p. 625. 

 Dendrocolaptes decumanus, Licht. Abh. AJuid. Bcrl. 1821, p. 256, 



pi. i. %. 1, et 1821, p. 263; id. Boiibl. p. 16; Sjn.v, Av. Bras. i. 



p. 86, pi. Ixxxvii. ; Burtn. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 10 ; Less. Rev. Zool. 



1840, p. 269. 

 Dendrocolaptes guttatus, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 1120. 

 Dendrocolaptes albicollis, Bp. Consp. p. 207 ; Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1850, 



p. 98; Bi/fon, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 22. 



* Refer also to : — 



1. X.fortis, Heine f., J. f. O. 18(>0, p. 185 (loc. ign.). 



2. X. crassirostris, Tacz. et Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 113 (W. Peru). 



3. X. simjjlkkeps (Lafr.), Rev. et Mag. Zool. 18.')0, p. 100 (Bolivia). 



4. X. viryatus, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. N. M. xii. p. 1 1 (loo. ign.). 



5. X. iynotus, Ridgw. op. cit. p. 13 (loe. ign.). 



G. X. saturatus, Ridgw. op. cit p. 14 (Ecuador). 

 7. A', cinnamomcus, Ridgw. op. cit. p. 15 (E. Brazil). 



