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B. DENDEOCOLAPTES. 



6. Dendrocolaptes certhia. 



Le Picucule de Cayenne, Daub. PL Enl. 621. 



Picus certhia, Bodd. Tall. d. Tl. Enl. p. 38 (1783). 



Gracula cayennensis, Gin. 8. N. i. p. 399 (1788). 



Dendrocolaptes cayennensis, Liclit. Abh. Akad. Bed. 1820, p. 201 ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 206; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 265 (Upp. 



Amazons) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 162 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 575 



(Lower Amazons), et 1868, p. 56. 

 Dendrocops cayennensis, Lafr. It. Z. 1851, p. 320. 

 Dendrocolaptes communis. Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 312. 

 Gracula scandens. Lath. Lid. Oni. i. p. 193 (1790). 

 Deudrocopus scandens, Vieill, Nouv. Diet. xxvi. p. 115: id. Enc. Met/i. 



p. 623. 

 Premnocopus undulatus. Cab. in Schomh. Guian. iii. p. 689. 

 Dendrocolaptes undulatus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 35. 

 Dendrocolaptes certhia, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 56, et 1879, 



p. 622 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 67 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p, 421 



(Brit. Guiana). 

 Le Grimpar Picucule, Levaill. Prom. p. 67, t. xxvi. (?). 

 Dendrocolaptes obsoletus, Ridr/iv. Pr, U. S. N, M. x. p. 527; -Sc^. 



Ibis, 1889, p. 354. 



Above brown ; head and neck with light shaft-spots edged with 

 blackish ; wings, rump, and tail ferruginous : beneath brown, 

 obsoletcly crossed by numerous narrow blackish bands ; throat much 

 paler, Avhitish ; under wing-coverts ochraceous ; bill reddish horn- 

 colour : whole length 10 inches, wing 4-7, tail 4-5. Female 

 similar. 



Hah. Guiana, Lower Amazonia, and Eastern Brazil. 



The type of D. ohsoletus, which Mr. Eidgway has kindly sent to 

 me for examination, is somewhat divergent towords I), concolor, the 

 bars beneath being rather more obsolete. This, however, is more or 

 less the case in all the Amazonian sjiecimens. 



