44. PICOLAPTES. 155 



15. Picolaptes layardi. 



I'icolaptes layardi, Scl. Ibis, 1873, p. ^86 ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 386, 

 pi. xiv. (Para) ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 69. 



Above brown, head rather darker; edgings of wing-feathers, 

 rump, and tail ferruginous: beneath greyish, densely covered with 

 broad white shaft-stripes which are edged with black ; throat white ; 

 under wing-coverts cinnamomeous ; bill pale horn-colour : whole 

 length 7 inches, wing 3-2, tail 2-8. 



Hah. Lower Amazonia. 



This species is closely allied to P. fuscicaj^iillus, but seems to 

 differ in its small size and in the broader shape of the white shaft- 

 stripes beneath. 



a. 5 ad. »k. Para {Layard). Sclater Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



16. Picolaptes angustirostris. 



Trepadore comun, Azara, Apxnf. ii. p. 270. 



Deudrocopus antrustirostris, Vieill. Xouv. Diet. xxvi. p. 116; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 624." 

 Picolaptes angustirostris, Bj). Consp. i. p. 208 ; Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1850, 



p. 151 ; Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 22 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 167 ; 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 161 (rep. Arg.) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 69 ; 



White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 433 (rep. Arg.}; Bert. J. f. O. 1887, 



pp. 15, 119 (Paraguay); Scl. et Huds. Ary. Orn. i. p. 201. 

 Le Grimpar maille, Levaill. Prom. p. 73, t. xxix. fig. 2 (?). 

 Lepidocolaptes atripes, Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 21. 



Above brown ; broad superciliaries white ; head and neck blackish, 

 with numerous pale fulvous shaft-spots ; secondaries, rump, and 

 tail ferruginous : beneath dirty white, the feathers obsoletely mar- 

 gined with blackish ; throat nearly pure white : under wing- 

 coverts cinnamomeous ; bill pale horn-colour : whole length 8 inches, 

 wing 3*8, tail 2-9. Female similar. 



Hab. Paraguay, Uruguay, Northern Argentina, and Bolivia. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Uruguay. Alan Peel [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Paysandu, Uruguay. Alan Peel [C.J. 



d. Ad. sk. Corrientes. Sclater Coll. 



e. 2 fid. sk. Fuerte de Andalgala, Catamarca Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( White). 



f. g. <S 9- •'id. sk. Meudoza, Arg. Rep.f Weisshaupt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. c? ad. sk. Mendoza, Arg. Eep.( TrmsAa?/;^''). Salvin-Goduian Coll. 

 1. Ad.sk. Vicinitv of Buenos Avres (Zfasfc- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



hust). 

 J, A;. Ad. sk. Bolivia? (^m/yw). Eyton Coll. 



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



17. picolaptes bivittatus. 



Dendrocolaptes bivittatus, Licht. Ahh. Akad. Berl. 1820, p. 258, pi. ii. 

 fig. 2, et 1821, p. 266; Spiv, Av. Bra». i. p. 87, pi. xc. tig. 1. 



