i 50 hr.NDRocoJAvnDA-:. 



p. 117, et I860, p. iiH (Guatemala); iid. Numend. p. 68; Laior. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 107 (Costa Rica) ; Frcmtz. J. f. O. 18G9, 

 p. 305 (Costa Rica) ; finlv. P. Z. S. 1«70, p. 193 ( Veragua) ; 

 Ridtjw. P. U. S. y. M. V. p 497 (Co&ta Rica), et ix. p. 156 

 (Mexico). 

 Thripobrotus affinis, Cab. et Htin. Mng. Ifeiu. ii. p. 38. 



Above brown ; head spotted with pale fulvous shaft-spots edged 

 with blackish ; upper back with similar linear striations ; rump, 

 outer margins of wing-feathers, and tail ferruginous : beneath 

 brown, with numerous somewhat broad but elongated shaft-spots of 

 pale fulvous margined with black ; throat pale fulvous ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers einnamomeous ; 

 bill pale horn-colour : whole length 8*3 inches, wing 4, tail 2-5. 

 Female similar. 



Hah. Southern Mexico and Central America down to Veragui. 



This is a northern fonn of P. lacrifmigcr, distinguishable by the 

 broader shape of the shaft-spots on the lower surface and their 

 more fulvous tinge. 



Salvin-Cxodmau Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Sclater CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



O. Salvin, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Picolaptes parvirostris. 

 Picolaptes parvii'ostris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 33. 



Above earthy brown, rump, wing-edgings, and tail bright ferru- 

 ginous ; head and neck behind down to middle of the back spotted 

 with well-marked yellowish shaft-spots, which are short and trian- 

 gular on the head and long and thin on the neck ; the shaft-spots 

 on the head slightly margined with blackish : beneath earthy brown, 

 densely spotted with elongated ochraceous shaft-spots, which are 

 distinctly edged with blackish; flanks and crissum less marked; 

 chin and middle of throat pale ochraceous, unspotted ; bill very 

 short, slightly incurved, pale brown ; feet dark : whole length 

 8 inches, wing 4, tail 3-8, bill from gape 0-9. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil. 



The single specimen of this species is not unlike some examples 

 of P. affiiiis, but is at once distinguishable by its shortened and 



