14 EEVIEW OF THE GENUS XIPHOCOLAPTES RIDGWAY. 



of brown; middle of belly broadly ockraceous, spotted with black; 

 stripes of the breast margined with black lines; under tail-coverts 

 brownish rusty, varied with black; wings and tail darker." (Taczan., 

 P. Z. S., 1882, 28; translation.) 



Adult male. — " Entirely similar to X. promeropirhynchus, but differing 

 in several details, particularly in the general coloration of the plumage 

 being deeper ; the rusty on the top of the head and neck much narrower, 

 reduced to the shaft alone, and slightly enlarged on the barbels on the 

 tip ; the front part of the back would be almost unstriped did not the yel- 

 lowish shafts of the feathers of this part produce some indication of 

 stripes; throat uniform fulvous, crossed for whole length by two stripes 

 formed by a series of brown spots ; on the lower part of the throat, the 

 breast, the upper abdomen, and the flanks rusty stripes, bordered on 

 both sides by a well-defined black line; the middle of the abdomen 

 mostly covered by feathers of an ochreous fulvous, of which each one is 

 variegated by a series of black transverse stripes interrupted in the 

 middle, so as to form a pronounced spotting; the under tail-coverts 

 deeper and more rusty than the preceding [belly] and equally varie- 

 gated with black; size somewhat larger [than X. promeropirhynchus], 

 bill less long, more elevated and more compressed. Upper mandible 

 of a horny-gray, with the tip black, lighter along the tomia, the lower 

 one horn-blackish, passing gradually into plumbeous-gray towards the 

 base; feet of an olive-plumbeous; iris deep brown. 



"Total length, 342-350""" [13.42-13.78 inches]; extent, 458-4G0 ram 

 [18.00-18.11 inches]; wing, 152""" [5.94 inches]; tail, 135""" [5.31 inches]; 

 bill, 52 mm [2.00 inches]; height of bill opposite nostrils, 12" im [.47 inch]; 

 lengih of tarsus, 3-1"" [1.25 inches]; external toe without claw, 28 mm 

 [1.10 inches]." (Taczan., Orn. du Perou, I, 1884, pp. 172, 173; trans- 

 lation.) 



I refer with some doubt to this species a fine specimen from Guaya- 

 quil, Ecuador, iu the National Museum collection (No. 101287, 1884, 

 Dr. William H. Jones, U. S. Navy). It agrees with the above descrip- 

 tion so far as coloration is concerned, except that the back has narrow, 

 pale, sbaft-streaks, and the throat has four instead of two brown stripes. 

 But the bill, instead of being shorter and more compressed than in X. 

 promeropirhynchus, is longer and every way thicker, the culmen meas- 

 uring 2.20, the depth at gonydeal angle .40, while it is also much more 

 decurved. 



Should this bird prove to be distinct from X. compressirostris, it might 

 be appropriately named X. saturatus ; and in view of the possibility of 

 this proving to be the case, I append the following description: 



Adult (No. 101287, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1884 ; Dr. William H. Jones, 

 U. S. Navy). — Pileum rather deep bistre (paler than in most examples 

 of X.promeropirliynclius), each feather with a very fine mesial line or 

 shaft-streak of buff; hind-neck and upper back similar, but rather 

 lighter and brighter, with the streaks still narrower; scapulars, wing- 



