l86 Elliot on the Genua Dendrornis. [April 



Bahia, the locality from which the type came, but I doubt, with 

 ample material to enable an opinion to be formed, whether the 

 two forms could be kept apart. Of course if they should be 

 proved to be but one species, rostripallens with its synonym v 

 would have to be included under the much older name of gutta- 

 ta. 



Dendrornis guttatoides. 



Nasica guttatoides Lafres. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1S50, p. 3S7,ex Colombia. 

 Dendrornis guttatoides Des Muks. Voy. Castel. Ois. p. 43, pi. xiii, fig. 



2 (1856). — Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 164. sp. 100S (1S62). — Salv. Ibis. 



1SS5, p. 422. 



Habitat. Colombia (Lafres.), Cayenne (Sclater), Bartica 

 Grove, British Guiana (Whiteley). 



Top of bead and back of neck, black, with central pale buff spot on each 

 feather, more elongated on the neck. Back reddish brown with rather 

 broad central deep buff stripes, bordered with black; these stripes becom- 

 ing narrower on lower part of the back. Rump and upper tail-coverts 

 dark cinnamon-red. Cheeks pale buff streaked with dark brown. Throat 

 whitish buff, uniform. Underparts dark olive brown, reddish on the cen- 

 tre of abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts, each feather with a 

 broad central streak bordered with black, these streaks whitish buff on the 

 breast, becoming brighter and reddish on the abdomen, and indistinc, 

 towards the vent. Wings and tail dark cinnamon. Bill short, dark 

 brown, paler on basal half of mandible. Feet, horn brown. Total length 

 9! in. ; wing, 4^ in.; tail, 4I in.; bill, \\ in. Type described, 

 No. 225S, Coll. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



The above description is taken from Lafresnaye's type, which 

 he states in the 'Revue et Magasin' (1. c.),as having been 

 bought from a dealer with some other birds from Colombia. It 

 was also obtained by Castelnau at Lorette. The type represents a 

 very strongly marked and well defined species, not in any wax 

 resembling the D. guttata with which its describer compared it. 

 The entire underparts are conspicuously covered with broad buff 

 stripes, and the bill, which perhaps is the strongest character, is 

 vervshort and stout for the size of the bird. Oudart's figure in 

 Des Murs's work gives no idea whatever of its appearance. The 

 type is a fine specimen, and in perfect preservation. 



