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specific title of promeropirhynchus, but is probably different from the 

 Colombian bird to which the name properly belongs. Since the type 

 is doubtless in the British Museum, it should be easy to ascertain its 

 true status. 



(3) Xiphocolaptes procerus Cab. & Heine. 



Xiphocolaptes procerus Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hem., n, Sept. 10, 1859, 36 (Caracas).— 

 ScL.,Cat. Am. B., 1861, 163 (Venezuela).— Set. & Salv., Ex. Orn., i, 1869, 

 72; Norn. Neotr., 1873, 68. 

 ? Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1868, 117 (Venezuela). 



Sp. Char. — " Similar to the following [X. promeropirhynchus] but 

 larger, paler, bill longer and pale horn-color, throat yellowish-white, 

 immaculate, and streaks and spots of under parts more indistinct. — 

 Total length, 1" 6"' ; wing, 5" IV"; tars., 1"; tail, 5". 



"These specimens from Caracas seem to be intermediate, so to speak, 

 between X. emigrans and X. promeropirhynchus. The head is lighter 

 olive-brown, wing and tail lighter cinnamon-brown than in X. promero- 

 pirhynchus^ while in X. emigrans the contour feathers are still more olive 

 and the markings on the belly almost entirely obsolete. Whether X. 

 lineatocephalus Cray belongs to this or to the following species [X. pro- 

 meropirhynchus] it is not possible to determine with certainty from the 

 figure alone without description and locality." (Cab. & Heine, I. c; 

 translation.) 



This species is unknown to me except from the above description. 



(4) Xiphocolaptes fortis Heine. 



Xiphocolaptes fortis Heine, J. f. O., May, 1860, 185 (nab. ignot.). 



Sp. Char. — " The whole upper surface is exactly as in X. procerus, to 

 which, on the whole, it is most nearly related ; but the wings and tail 

 are somewhat darker cinnamon red-brown, and the head is a little lighter 

 colored and lighter striped; the under side may almost be said to be red- 

 brown, and does not show the slightest tinge of the olive-colored admixture 

 so very prominent in X. emigrans, less so in X. procerus, and also entirely 

 wanting in X. promeropirhynchus. The color of the throat is brownish- 

 yellow, between the yellow of X. procerus and the brownish of X. pro- 

 meropirhynchus. The fore neck is but very narrowly striped, almost 

 more so than in X. emigrans. The blackish spot markings which in X. 

 procerus and X. promeropirhynchus almost extend over the whole breast, 

 in the present species hardly take up more space than in X. emigrans, 

 and hardly more distinct than in the latter species, and are restricted 

 to the very middle of the belly. Total length, 12 inches ; wing, 5' 8" , 

 tail, 4' 9"; culmen, 1' 9"; tarsus, V 1" ; middle claw without claw, V 

 1" ; hind toe without claw, 5". 



"It is tolerably intermediate between the three nearly related species, 

 X. emigrans Scl., from Guatemala, X. promeropirhynchus (Less.), from 

 New Granada, and X. procerus Cab. & Heine, from Venezuela; and 

 judging from this it might, perhaps, have come from Cartagena or Sta. 



