1 68 Elliot on the Genus Dendrornis. [April 



f. Lower part of breast and abdomen fulvous striped with buff. 

 a'. Buff stripes on lower part of breast and abdo- 

 men without dark margins. 

 a". Bill black; tliroat white; upper part of breast 

 with large buffy-white spots, margined with 



black 15. D. eytoni. 



/>". Bill yellowish-white. Buff spots on upper 

 and lower part of body without black mar- 

 gins 16. D. d'orbignyanus. 



c". Bill pale horn-color; buff stripes on upper 



part of breast margined with black 17. D. rostripallens. 



b 1 . Buff stripes on breast and abdomen margined 

 with black. 

 a". Bill half as long again as head. Throat and 



stripes on breast deep rusty-buff iS. D. guttata. 



/>". Bill short, stout, long as head. Throat and 



stripes on breast whitish-buff 19. D. guttatoides. 



C. Back striated. Entire underparts dark olive covered 

 with triangular yellowish-white spots. 



a. Lower back bright olive. Back with few narrow 

 buffy-white lines on upper part 20. D. triangularis. 



b. Lower back cinnamon-red. 



a'. Back olive brown, with numerous lengthened 



buffy-white spots 21. D. erythropygia. 



b'. Back olive brown with narrow whitish-yellow 



stripes on upper part 22. D. punctigula. 



The description of D. obsoletus Licht, is so meagre and unsatisfactory, 

 that it is impossible to assign to it any place in the above key. 



Dendrornis weddelli. 



Dendrornis tveddelli Lafres. Des Muks, Voy. Castel. Amer. Sud. Ois- 

 p. 46, Tab. xiv, fig 2. (1856). 



Habitat. ? 



Crown and nape reddish-brown, with pear-shaped spots of buff, minute 

 on forehead, more elongated on nape. Back uniform reddish-brown, the 

 shafts of feathers buff. Rump and upper tail-coverts cinnamon-red. 

 Throat buff, each feather margined with a narrow blackish-brown line ; 

 this becoming broader and more conspicuous on the buff markings on the 

 lower part of the neck. Under parts olive brown, each feather with a 

 lengthened pear-shaped pale buff spot without any dark margin, these 

 spots becoming obsolete on the abdomen. Under tail-coverts olive brown 

 with a reddish tinge. Wings cinnamon. Tail cinnamon-red, much 

 darker than the wings. Bill very long, slender and pointed; horn-brown 

 on maxilla, pale yellow on mandible. Feet pale brown. Length 8£ in. 

 Wing 3A in. Tail 3-,% in. Bill i-, : i in. Description taken from type, No. 

 ^267, Coll. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 



