44. prcoLAPTEs. 147 



b*. Back of neck sliglitly striped. 



a'. Breast-stripes very narrow . . 5. warceiviezi, p. 149. 

 ¥. Breast-stripes rather wide. 



j Bill normal 6. affinis, p. 149. 



\ Bill very short 7. parvirostris, p. l-')0. 



6'". Smaller : wing- 3-.5 8, puncticepn, p. 151. 



d". Head spotted ; back densely striped . 9. fenuirostris, t^. lol. 

 e". Head striped. 

 c'". Stripes of head extended over neck. 



j Head-stripes very narrow .... 10. albolineatus, p. 152. 



( Head-stripes broader 11. soulei/eti, p. 152. 



d'". Stripes of head extended oa to 

 mid-back. 

 rBreast-sti'ipes wider; bill longer. 12. compressus,^p. 153. 

 < Breast-stripes narrower ; bill 



(^ shorter 13. gracilis, p. 154. 



b. Cap uniform brown. 



j Larger : breast-stripes naiTower 14. fuscicnpillus, p. 154. 



I Smaller : breast-stripes wider 15. lai/ardi, p. 155. 



B. With distinct superciliaries, 



j Breast flammulated 16. angustirostris, p. 155. 



j Breast uniform 17. bivittatun, p. 155. 



1. Picolaptes leucogaster. 



Xiphorhynelius leucogsister, Sw. Phil. Mag. 1827, i. p. 440. 

 Picolaptes leunogaster, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1850, p. 150; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1858, p. 297 (S. Mexico); id. Cat. A. B. p. 166; Scl. et Salv. 



Nomencl. p. 68. 

 Thripobrotus leucogaster, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 37. 

 Picolaptes atripes, Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 76, et 1852, p. 22. 



Above olive-brown ; head darker, covered with pale fulvous 

 shaft-spots, which are margined with black ; edgings of wing- 

 feathers, rump, and tail ferruginous : beneath, throat white ; breast 

 and belly covered with broad white shaft-stripes, which are edged 

 with blackish, and are not so well developed on the lower belly, 

 flanks, and crissum ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of 

 wing-feathers cinnamomeous ; bill horn-colour ; feet black : whole 

 length 9 inches, wing 4'8, tail 4*2. Female simUar. 



Hah. Southern Mexico. 



a. Ad. St. Mexico (?). Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Near city of Mexico. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Parada, Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Ciudad Durango, Mexico Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Forrer). 



e. Ad. sk. Mexico (Sam). Sclater Coll. 

 /, Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



2. Picolaptes sqiiamatus. 



Dendrocolaptes squamatus, Licht. Abh. Akad. Berl. 1820, p. 258, 



pi. ii. fig. 1, et 1821, p. 265 ; id. Doubl. p. 17. 

 Dendrocolaptes wagleri. Spur, Av. Bras. 1. p. 88, pi. 90. fig. 2. 



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