170 BENDKOCOL.VPTID^. 



Kejj to tJie Sj^ecies. 



A. Bill narrower at the base, more compressed. 



(Deiidnicops.) 

 a. Breast with pale fulvous shaft-stripes. 



«'. Bill black 1. picunuui.^, p. 170. 



b'. Bill light horn-colour. 



Head blackish, with narrow shaft- 

 stripes 2. imncticoUis, p. 171. 



Head brown, with linear shaft- 

 stripes 3. pallescens, p. 171. 



h. Breast with black rounded spots 4. validus, p. 172. 



c. Breast with distinct black cross bands . . 5. plagosus, p. 172. 



B. BiU wider at the base, more depressed. 



(^Dendrocolaptes. ) 



d. Bdlly indistinctly barred with black. 



) Back faintly barred with black 6. certkin, p. 173. 



) Back uniform 7. concolor, p. 174, 



e. Belly distinctly barred with black. 



(Bars on throat obsolete 8. radlolatm, p. 174. 



I Bars on thi-oat well defined' 9. sancti-thomce, p. 174. 



A. DENDROCOPS. 



1. Dendrocolaptes picumnns. 



Dendrocolaptes picumnus, Licht. Abh. Akad. Berl. 1820, p. 202; 

 Cab. et Hein. Mus. Ilein. ii. p. ?,o ; Scl. Vat. A. B. p. 162; Scl tt 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. oG ; iid. Nomencl. p. 67 ; Berl. J. f. 0. 1873, 

 p. 253, et 1887, p. 132 (Paraguay) ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 613 

 (rep. Arg.) ; Scl. et Huds. Art/. 6rn. i. p. 199. 



Dendrocolaptes cayennensis, Licht. Abh. Ak. Berl. 1821, p. 264. 



Dendrocolaptes platyrostris, Spi.v, Ad. Bras. i. p. 87, pi. 89. 



Dendrocops platyrostris, Sw. Class. Birds, ii. p. 314 ; Lafr. Rev. 

 Zool. 1851, p. 326 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 207. 



Dendrocolaptes melanoceps, Zess. Bev. Zool. 1840, p. 269. 



Dendrocolaptes platyrhynchus, Beichh. Handb. p. 194. 



Dendrocopus platyrhynchus, Burni. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 9. 



Above fulvous-brown ; head blackish, with paile fulvous shaft- 

 stripes, which are continued more sparingly down to the inter- 

 scapulium ; outer secondaries tinged with ferruginous ; tail ferru- 

 ginous : beneath brighter ; throat fulvous, with slight blackish 

 edgings ; breast marked with pale fulvous shaft-stripes, which are 

 laterally margined obsoletely with black ; belly crossed by numerous 

 black cross bands ; under wing-coverts fulvous, with black cross 

 bands ; bill black : whole length 10'5 inches, wing 4"6, tail 4'4. 

 Female simliar. 



Bab. S.E. Brazil. 



a. Ad. St. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



b, c. (S ad. sk. Sao Paulo, Brazil (Joj/ner). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. (J ad. sk. Bio Claro, Goyaz, Brazil {Joy- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ner). 



e. Ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(//. H. Smith). 



