ir>6 DEXrROCOI.APriD.IS. 



Picolaptes bivittatus, Lafr. liev. Zool. 1850, p. 152 ; Eytun, Contr- 

 Oni. \Srr2, p. 22 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 107 ; Scl. et Salv. Noviend- 

 p. (3U; ii(L F. Z. S. 1879, p. 623 (Bolivia). 



Picolaptes coronatiis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. ol4. 



Above chestnut-red ; bead blackish, with very narrow shaft- 

 stripes of fulvous ; broad supcrciliarics white ; patch behind tlie 

 eye black : beneath pale cinnamomeous ; throat white ; crissum 

 rufescent ; bill pale whitish horn-colour : whole length 7 inches, 

 wing 3"S, tail 3-1. Female similar. 



Hah. Southern Brazil. 



The Bolivian skins show the under surface dirty white without 

 the cinnamomeous tinge, and may be different. 



a. Ad. sk. Babia, Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b, c. cJ $ ad. Coruraba, ^fatto Grosso, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. (H. II. Smith). 



d, e,f. Ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



c/. Ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Purchased. 



'h. Ad. ,sk. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. 



i,j. Ad. St. Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.]. 



45. NASICA. „ 



Type. 



Nasica, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 311 (18ol) N. longirostris. 



The long, compressed, and but slightly incurved bill at once 

 distinguishes this rather conspicuous monotype of Guiana and 

 Amazonia. 



1. Nasica longirostris. 



Le Grimpar Nasican, Levaill. I'rom. p. 65, pi. xxiv. 



Deudrocopus loiigiro.<tris, Vieill. Nouv. Did. xxvi. p. 117 ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 625. 

 Dendror^olaptes longirostris, Licht. Abh. Akad. Berl. 1820, p. 200, et 



1821, p. 26.S. 

 Nasica nasalis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 311. 

 Nasica albicollis, Less. Suppl. a Buff. p. 280. 

 Nasica longirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 207; Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1850, 



p. 383 ; Set. Cat. A. B. p. 163 ; Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 23 ; 



Set. d, Salv. Nomend. p. 67 ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 373 (Upp. 



Amazons) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 171. 



Above clear deep ferruginous ; head and neck behind dark brown, 

 with narrow pale ochraceous shaft-stripes on the head, and broader 

 white shaft-stripes on the neck ; long superciliary stripe white : 

 beneath, throat and neck clear white ; abdomen wood-brown ; 

 breast and upper belly marked with large, broad, pointed, white 

 shaft-spots, which are slightly margined with darker brown ; under 

 wing-coverts clear ochraceous ; bill pale horn-colour ; feet brown : 

 whole length lo inches, wing 5-3, tail 4-8. Feinale similar. 



Bah. Cayenne, Guiana, Amazonia, and Eastern Ecuador. 



