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back, ramp, and upper tail-coverts clear cirmamon-f ufous ; wings light 

 cinnamon-rufous, outer webs of wing-coverts chiefly ciunamou-browu, 

 and edges of remiges (except tertials and inner primaries) inclining 

 to the .same ; tail deeper cinnamon-rufous, inclining to pale chestnut, 

 the shafts of ten middle feathers blackish except towards tips. Lores, 

 narrow supra-auricular stripe, and broader stripe from beneath eye 

 across lower half of auriculars, plain dull buffy ; a postocular stripe (oc- 

 cupying upper half of auriculars) and broad malar stripe dull cinnamon- 

 brown very indistinctly streaked with paler; chin and upper throat 

 plain pale buffy ; rest of under parts light wood-brown (or pale buffy 

 cinnamon-brown), the lower throat, chest, breast, sides, and flanks, 

 rather broadly streaked with pale buffy (streaks narrower on sides and 

 flanks), some of the streaks, especially on breast, margined on each 

 side with small spots of darker brown than the general color ; belly with 

 similar but more numerous spots, becoming nearly obsolete posteriorly ; 

 under tail-coverts light cinnamon, streaked with pale buffy; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts light ochiaceous marked with narrow trans- 

 verse spots of dusky. Upper mandible dark horn-color, fading into 

 pale horn-color terminally ; lower mandible pale horn-color, paler and 

 more yellowish on gouydeal augle, dusky horn-color basally ; legs and 

 feet horn dusky. Length (skin), 10.90; wing, 5.20; tail, 4.30; culmen, 

 2.00; depth of bill at gonydeal angle, .40; tarsus, 1.18; middle toe, 1.00. 

 With the single exception of X major (Vieill.), this is by far the most 

 strongly characterized species that I have seen, and scarcely needs 

 comparison with any other. 



Xiphocolaptes major (Vieill.). 



Bendrocopus major Vieill., Nouv. Diet., xxvi, 1818, 118 (Paraguay; ex Trapadore 



Grande Azara) ; Enc. Me"th., 1823, 624. 

 Dendrocolaptes major Boxap., Consp., I, 1850, 207.— Lafr., Rev. et Mag. Zool., 



1850, 103. 

 Xiphocolaptes major vox Berl., J. f. 0., Jan., 1887, 15 (Paraguay).— (?) Salvin, 



Ibis, 1880, 359 (Tucumau, Arg.Rep.).— (?) White, P. Z. S., 1882, 613 (Salta, 



Arg. Rep.).— (?) Scl. & Hudson, Arg. Orn., i, 1888,201 (part; Oran, Arg. 



Rep. ; not the description !). 

 Dendrocolaptes rubiginosus Lafr., Mag. de Zool., 1833, Ois., pi. 16 (Buenos Ayres; type 



examined !). 



Sp. Char. — Above clear cinnamon-rufous, much paler on head and 

 neck and darker on tail ; ear-coverts light chestnut ; chin and throat 

 pale cinnamon streaked with buffy whitish ; other under parts deeper 

 cinnamon, streaked with pale buffy, the sides, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts rusty. 



Hab. — Paraguay and Argentine Republic. 



Adult male (No. 10327, Paraguay, June, 1859; Capt. T. J. Page, U. 

 S. Navy). — Head and neck cinnamon-color, the chin and throat much 

 paler and streaked with buffy ; ear-coverts light chestnut; lores mixed 

 dusky and dull buffy-whitish. Upper parts (except head and neck) clear 

 cinnamon-rufous, deepening into chestnut on tail. Under surface of body 



