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coverts, and middle back Vandyke-brown ; lower back, ramp, upper 

 tail coverts, and reruiges deep chestnut, the inner webs of longer prima- 

 ries with terminal portion abruptly dusky (for the distance of 1.50 on 

 third quill); tail very dark chestnut or chocolate. Supra-auricular re- 

 gion buff, streaked with deep brown ; upper portion of auriculars deep 

 brown narrowly streaked with brownish buff; a broad band of uearly 

 plain buff on side of head, extending from lores beneath eyes over lower 

 half, or more, of auriculars ; beneath this a broad malar stripe of dark 

 brown, streaked with buff; chin and throat dull buffy, tbe lower por- 

 tion of the latter with several lines of dark brown ; rest of lower parts 

 deep raw-umber (inclining to burnt- umber laterally and posteriorly), the 

 chest and breast very broadly streaked with buff, each buff streak mar- 

 gined on each side by a narrower streak of black; whole belly spotted 

 with black, the median portion of each feather deep buff; under tail- 

 coverts lighter burnt-umber, less distinctly spotted with dusky and 

 streaked with buffy or light rusty. Bill deep horn-color, strongly de- 

 curved; feetdusky. Length (skin), 10.20; wing, 5.80; tail, 4.60; culmen, 

 2.20 (exposed part 1.90); bill from nostril, 1.55; depth of bill at angle of 

 gonys, .40 ; tarsus, 1.28. 



Speaking of a " female from San Rafael [Ecuador] collected on the 

 1st of March," Taczanowski (P. Z. S., 1885, pp. 9S,99) says: 



This bird is intermediate between those collected in Peru and the X. promeropi- 

 rhynchus (Less.) from New Granada, but more nearly allied to the, former in many re- 

 spects. It has the two brownish stripes on the throat well pronounced. The middle 

 of the abdomen is equally strongly spotted in its whole extent up to the breast, on 

 the middle of which, even, there are also some black spots. The bill is intermediate, 

 almost as high as in the Peruvian birds, but not quite so compressed. It seems to be 

 even broader than in the six birds from New Granada (museums of Warsaw and von 

 Berlepsch), with which it has been compared. The color of the bill is also interme- 

 diate, darker thau that of the bill of the Peruvian bird, but not black as in X. pro- 

 meropirhynchus. 



Xiphocolaptes cinnamomeus, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. — Smallest of the genus (wing 5.20, tail 4.30). Pileum cin- 

 namon-brown (not very different from color of the back), narrowly 

 streaked with cinuamou-buffy ; lower parts light wood-brown, broadly 

 streaked with pale dull buffy, the belly marked with small, rather in- 

 distinct transverse spots of dull grayish-brown, the breast with a few 

 similar markings; chin, upper throat, lores, supra-auricular stripe, and 

 broader stripe beneath eyes, buff. 



Hab. — Eastern Brazil (Bahia?). 



Adult (Type, No. 7868, Mas. Comp. ZooL, " Bahia, Brazil ; A. de 

 Lacerda"*). — Pileum and hiud-neck cinnamon-browu, each feather with 

 a narrow and not very distinct mesial streak of pale cinnamon or cin- 

 namonbuffy; back and scapulars cinnamon-brown, tinged with rusty, 

 the former with narrow shaft-streaks of pale cinnamonbuffy ; lower 



* There is probably a mistake in the locality, the skin, a very perfect one, being of 

 the unmistakable handsome, "make" of specimens from CeanL 



