166 DEXDROCOLAPTID,^. 



Above olive-brown ; lores, slight suporciliaries, and sides of head 

 pale fulvons; wing-covorts nearly like the back, but sliglilly darker; 

 margins of wiug-feathers, npper tail-coverts, and tail clear ferrn- 

 giuous : beneath ratlier lighter ; throat more or less varied with 

 pale fulvous ; under wing- coverts light ochraceoiis ; bill dark 

 brownish black : whole length 8'5 inches, wing 4-3, tail 3'9. 

 Fcnude similar. 



Hah. Lower Amazonia and Guiana. 



It is perhaps onlj- traditionally that this species can be recognized 

 as the original of Levaillant's figure upon which the name '\f'uU- 

 qinosa " was based ; but such is the case in many other instances. 

 The type of Mr. Ridgway's Dendrocinda rufo-olivacea (which he has 

 kindly sent to me for examination) belongs, in my opinion, to this 

 species. 



a. S fid. sk. Roraima, Brit. Guiana ( W/iifeli/). Sclater Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Koraima, Brit. Guiana ( TfVi/^f/y). Salviu-Godnian Coll. 

 c,d. c? ad.sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana (7r7»Vc///). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. iS ad. sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiaua Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitehj). 



f. 2 ad.; (/. Para, Lower Amazons ( Tr(///«ce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ■ Ad.sk. 



h. S ad.sk. Para, Lower Amazons ( 7F<(/i'«ce). Sclater Coll. 

 i. Ad. st. Brazil (?). Purchased. 



7. Dendrocinda olivacea. 



Dendrocops atrirostris, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 466 (part.) ; Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 66, 278, 203 (Ecuador). 

 Dendrocolaptes atrirostris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 63 (Rio Napo). 

 Dendrocinda atrirostris, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 162 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 54; iid. Nomenol. p. 67 (part.); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, 



p. 332 (Ecuador) ; Berlepsch, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 563 (Ecuador). 

 Dendromaues atrirostris, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 355 (Panama) ; 



Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 193 (Veragua). 

 Dendrocinda olivacea, Laivr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 466 (Panama) ; 



Rlilyw. Pr. U. S. N. M. x. p. 492. 



Above olive-brown, wing-coverts like the back, but margins of 

 secondaries more or less tinged with ferruginous ; tail ferruginous : 

 beneath brighter; throat slightly freckled with pale fulvous ; breast 

 with very fine bright shaft-stripes, in some specimens evanescent ; 

 under wing-coverts ochraceous ; bill black, but often blotched with 

 ■white on the lower mandible : whole length 8 inches, wing 4*3, 

 tail 3"7. Female similar. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



This species has been usually identified with Dendrocops atrirostris 

 of Lafresnaye, but as Mr. Ridgway has recently examined the 

 typical specimen of that species, and has found it to be distinct 

 (Proc. U. S. N. M. X. p. 493), it becomes necessary to use Mr. Law- 

 rence's name for it, based on Panama specimens. 



In general appearance D. olivacea comes nearest to D. fuVajinosa, 

 but is rather smaller in size and darker beneath ; besides which the 



