158 DKxnuocor.APTin.i;. 



47. XIPHORHYNCHUS * ^ 



Type. 



Xiphorhynchus, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. p. ^i'A (1827) .... X. procurvns. 



The peculiar structure of the bill, which is long, thin, and very 

 much compressed and incurved, renders this group of the Dendro- 

 colaptince easil)' recognizable. The five species which I am able to 

 recognize extend from Costa Rica to Southern Brazil and Bolivia. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



A. Bill lonfrer, more abruptly incurved ; uo 



white subocular spot. 



a. Bill dark liorn-colour 1. procurvus, p. 158. 



b. Bill reddish. 



I Bill rather shorter 2. trochilirostris, p. 159. 



I Bill rather longer 3. lafresnayanus, p. 160. 



c. Bill pale hazel 4. pusil/us, p. 160. 



B. Bill shorter, not so abruptly incurved; a 



white subocular spot 5. puchcrani, p. 161. 



1. Xiphorhynchus procurvus. 



Dendrocolaptes procurvus, Temni. PI. Col. 28 (1824). 

 Xiphorhynchus procurvus, Sic. Class. Birds, ii. p. .314 ; Cab. et Hein. 



Mus. Hein. ii. p. 39 ; Eytoii, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 23 ; Sclater, 



Cat. A. B. p. 167 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 69. 

 Xiphorhyuchus trochilirostris, Lafr. Rev. ZooL 1850, p. 374 (nee 



Liclit.) ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 16. 



Above fulvous brown ; head blackish, covered with clear elongated 

 shaft-spots of pale fulvous, which extend more or less on to the 

 nape ; outer secondaries, upper tail-coverts, and tail ferruginous : 

 beneath paler, throat pale fulvous ; neck and breast more or less 

 striated with narrow shaft-stripes of pale fulvous ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers ochraceous ; bill dark 

 horn-colour: whole length 10 inches, wing 4-2, tail 3' 7. Female 

 similar. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil. 



The synonymy of this species and K. trochilirostris has been much 

 confused. There seems to bo no doubt that this is the bird called 

 X. trocliilirostris by Lafresuaye in his Monograph. 



a. Ad. st. Brazil. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Novo Fribourgo, Rio Janeiro, Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Brazil {Youds). 



c. Ad. sk. Rio Janeiro, Brazil {Youds). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Rio, Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil. Sclater Coll. 

 /, g. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 

 h. Ad. sk. Brazil. Eyton Coll. 



* Refer also to X. dorso-immaculatus, X. venezuelensis, and X. rufodorsalis. 

 Chapman, Bull. A. M. N. H. ii. pp. 153 ef seqq. (1889). 



