49. BENDEOCOLAPTES. 



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49. DENDEOCOLAPTES *. rr 



Type. 



Dendrocolaptes, Ilerviann, Obs. Zool. p. 135 (1804) . . U. certhia. 



Dendrocopus, Jlvill. Analyse, p. 45 (LslG) D. certhia. 



Dendrocops, Sic. Class. li.'ii. p. 314 (1837) 1). picumnus. 



Orthocolaptes, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 269 D. certhia. 



Premnocopus, Cab. in Schomb. Gidan. iii. p. 689 (1848) D. certhia. 



Head, wiug, and foot of Bendrocolaptes puncticollis. (P. Z. S. 1868, p. 55.) 



The original term Denclrocolcqjtes, it is now agreed, must be 

 restricted to the broad-billed group with more or less strongly- 

 developed transverse radiations, allied to D. certhia. This is 

 divisible into two subgeneric sections — (1) Dendrocops, with the 

 bill narrower and more compressed, and (2) Dendrocolaptes proper, 

 with the rostrum more expanded. 



The nine species of this geuus range from Guatemala to Southern 

 Brazil. 



* See also D. intermedius, Berl. Ibis, 1883, p. 141 (Brazil). 



