1S90.] Elliot on the Genus Dendrornis. \ 'j C 



tion of D. lawrencel (I.e.) compares it with D. ocellata Spix, or, 

 speaking more correctly, with a type specimen of D. cliunchotambo 

 Tschudi, which has been determined by both Sclater and Tacz- 

 anowski to be be identical with D. ocellata Spix.* It is 

 quite true that Mr. Ridgway's specimens are separable from the 

 species from Peru, but that is not their nearest ally, and if the 

 type of nana had been in his possession at the time he wrote his 

 descriptions I believe he would have perceived that his birds were 

 identically the same. The slight difference in size mentioned as 

 distinguishing D. lazvre/icei from D. I. costaricensis is also 

 to be noticed in a series of any species of this genus, and is evi- 

 dently of no specific value. 



Dendrornis multiguttata. 



Nasica multiguttatus Lafres. Rev. and Mag. Zool. 1850, p. 417. 

 Picolaftes notatus Eyton, Contr. Orn. p. 26 (1S52). 



Dendrornis mulligultatus L.AFR. Des Murs. Cast. Voy. Anier. Sud. Ois. 

 p. 44, Tab. xii, fig. 1 (1856). 



Dendrornis multiguttata Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 164, sp. 1010 (1S62). 

 Sclat. & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 271. — Tacz. Ornith. Per. 

 Tom. II, p. 1S0 (1SS4). 



Habitat. — Brazil, Fontiboa, Upper Amazon (Lafres.), Santa- 

 rein (Williams). Lower Ucayali (Bartlett). Cayenne (Sclater). 



Top of head, neck and back olive brown, darkest on the head, which 

 has the central portion of the feathers striped with bufFy white, becoming 

 broader and more lengthened on the back, and of a reddish shade, and all 

 margined with black. Rump, upper tail-coverts, wings and tail cinnamon- 

 red. Throat buff", in one specimen the feathers indistinctly margined with 

 brown. Entire underparts grayish olive, broadly striped with buffy- 

 white, margined with black, the stripes becoming narrower and less dis- 

 tinct as they proceed towards the vent. Bill yellowish white. Feet pale 

 brown. Total length, 7^ in. ; wing, 3! in. ; tail, 3^ in.; bill, 1 in. 



Type specimen described. No. 2269, Coll. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Several specimens are before me, among which is Lafresnaye's 

 type. It is one of the smallest species of the genus and cannot be 

 confounded with any other of those that I have seen. Sclater 

 (I.e.) gives it as from Cayenne, but all the specimens I have met 

 with are from Brazil. Of three specimens obtained at Santarem 

 on the Amazon, one agrees in all respects with the types and was 

 procured on July 30. The other two were shot in June, 



* See my remarks on D. ocellata. 



