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Elliot on the Genus Dendrornis. [April 



The authors of this species, after their description, give its 

 habitat as "Guaravos, Chiquitos," and at the end of the remarks, 

 it is said '*Le d'orhignyanus est du Perou." As Chiquitos lies 

 to the east of the Andes in Bolivia, it is evident that there is some 

 confusion here. I have seen no Peruvian specimens. 



Dendrornis rostripallens. 



Dendrornis rostripallens Lafres. MS. Des Murs, Voy. Castel. Amer. 



Sud Ois. p. 45, pi. 12, fig. 2 (1S56), ex Upper Amazon. — Pelz. 



Ornitli. Bras. p. 45 (1S6S) ; — ibid., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1SS2, p. 27. — 



Tacz. Ornith. Per. Tom. II, p. 176 (1884). 

 Dendrornis pardalotus Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 164, No. 1007 (1S62), nee 



VlEILL. 



Dendrornis guttata Tacz. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S74, p. 529 (nee Licht.). — 

 Sclat. & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S79, P- 622 (nee. Licht.). 



Habitat. — Colombia, Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley). Brazil, 

 Matto Grosso (Smith). 



Crown and nape blackish brown, spotted with buffy white, the spots on 

 the crown pear-shaped, on the nape elongated. Back yellowish brown, cen- 

 tral portion of feathers pale buff, this color disappearing on centre of back. 

 Rump and upper tail-coverts cinnamon-red. Chin white, throat deep 

 buff, unspotted. Lower parts pale yellowish brown, inclined to reddish 

 hutf on the abdomen, conspicuously striped with deep buff, the stripes, on 

 upper part of breast only, margined with black. These buff stripes usu- 

 ally become obsolete on lower abdomen and vent, although in some speci- 

 mens they are faintly visible. Wings cinnamon. Tail very dark chestnut. 

 Bill, pale horn-color; in some examples, however, the lateral basal por- 

 tion of the maxilla is blackish brown. Feet black. Length, 10A in. 

 tog in. ; wing, .\\% to 4 1 i 2 in. ; tail, 4ft to 4 in. ; bill, ij t to 1 f\ in. 



The above measurements are taken from a series of nine specimens and 

 show the extremes. 



In his description of the type of this species, Lafresnaye makes 

 no mention of any black margins to the buff stripes upon the 

 breast, and if the type does not possess these it is questionable if 

 the birds generally assigned to rostripallens do not really repre- 

 sent some other form, as all writers describe them as having these 

 stripes margined with black. The figure given by Des Murs does 

 not satisfactorily indicate whether these black margins exist or 

 not. However, I am led to believe that this was an oversight on 

 the part of the describer of the species, since all the examples of 



