146 DENDROCOLlPTIUiE. 



Dendrocolaptes rublginosus, Lafr. Mag. cle Zool. 1833, Ois. pi. 16. 

 Dendrocolaptes cyanotis, Burm. Si/st. Ueh. iii. p. 11. 

 Xiphocolaptes major castaneus, liidyw. Pr. U. S. N. M. xii. p. 17. 



Above nearly uniform rusty red, rather duller on the head and 

 with some indications of light shaft-stripes : beneath similar ; throat 

 dull brown ; breast with narrow shafts-stripes of pale fulvous ; belly 

 with black cross bands more or less developed ; bill pale horn- 

 colour : whole length 11*10 inches, wing 5-5, tail 4. Female similar. 



Hah. Northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 



This is quite a distinct species, at once recognizable by its nearly 

 uniform rusty red plumage. In some Bolivian specimens {X. major 

 castaneus, .Uidgw.) the black spots on the belly are nearly or quite 

 obsolete. 



a. Ad. St. Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.]. 



b. c? ad. sk. Bolivia. Salvin-Godraan Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Eyton Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Tucuman, rep. Arg. II. Durnford [C.]. 



44. PICOLAPTES*. 



Type. 



Picolaptes, Lesson, Tr. d' Orn. p. 313 (1831) P. tenuirostris. 



Lepidocolaptes, Reichenb. Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 183 



( 1853) P. squamatus. 



Dacryophorus, Bp. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, Zool. i. p. 133 



(1854) P. lacrymiger. 



Thripobrotus, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 339. P. tenuirostris. 



Of this very difficult group of the Dendrocolaptince I am able to 

 recognize seventeen species, which are distributed over the Neotro- 

 pical Eegion from Mexico to Paraguay. Ficolaptes is characterized 

 by its slender incurved bill, which is about as long or not much 

 longer than the head. The culmen, commissure, and gonys are all 

 slightly incurved. 



Ke^/ to the Species. 



A. Without distinct white superciliaries. 

 a. Cap striped or spotted. 



a'. Breast-stripes very broad, clear white 

 like threat. 



a". Larger : back olive-brown 1. leucogaster, p. 147. 



b" . Smaller: back cinnamomeous brown. 



I Ilead-stripes rounded 2. squamaftis, p. 147. 



I Ilead-stripes elongated 3. falcineUus, p. 148. 



h'. Breast-stripes narrow, whitish or ful- 

 vous, 

 c". Head spotted ; back uniform, or very 

 thinly striped, 

 a'". Larger: wing 4"0. 



G*. Back of neck not striped 4. lacrymiger, p. 148. 



* Refer also to : — 



(1) Picolaptes lineaticeps, Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1850, p. 277 (loc. ign.). 



(2) P. ohfertii.-.; Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H. ii. p. 94 (lof. ign.). 



