DRYMORNIS BRIDGESI. 199 



216. GLYPHORHYNCHUS CUNEATUS (Licht.). 

 (WEDGE-BILLED WOOD-HEWER.) 



Glyphorhynchus cuneatus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. G7 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 613 (Misiones). 



Description. Above olive-brown, superciliaries and small spots on the side 

 of the head yellowish white, rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut; wings 

 blackish, outer webs of wing-feathers olive-brown, basal part of inner webs of 

 secondaries yellowish white, forming a transverse bar ; tail chestnut ; beneath 

 earthy olive-brown, whitish yellow on the throat, and with spots of the same 

 colour on the upper part of the breast ; under wing-coverts white ; bill and feet 

 horn-colour : whole length 5-1 inches, wing 2-5, tail 2-4. Female similar. 



Hob. South America from Colombia to Northern Argentina. 



This is another northern form of which White obtained specimens 

 in Misiones. He says it is not uncommon there in the thick woods, 

 also in the orange-groves about the Jesuit ruins of St. Javier. 



217. DENDROCOLAPTES PICUMNUS (Licht.). 

 (FLAT-BILLED WOOD-HEWER.) 



Dendrocolaptes picumnus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 67 j White, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 613 (Misiones). 



Description. Above olivaceous brown ; head blackish, thickly covered with 

 yellowish-buff elongated shaft-spots ; rump and upper tail-coverts tinged with 

 chestnut ; wing-feathers chestnut, tinged with olivaceous ; tail chestnut ; 

 beneath pale earthy olive-brown, paler on the throat, the shafts of the feathers 

 of the breast butfy white, forming long lines, the feathers of the belly and under 

 tail-coverts transversely barred with blackish; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 white, spotted with blackish; bill and feet black: whole length 10 '5 inches, 

 wing 4*7, tail 4*6. Female similar. 



Hab. Brazil and Northern Argentina. 



White obtained specimens of this species at Concepcion, "in the 

 thickest parts of the woods, near the river, climbing up the trees, 

 around which it turned in corkscrew fashion." 



218. DRYMORNIS BRIDGESI, Eyton. 



(BRIDGETS WOOD-HEWER.) 



[PLATE X.] 



Drymornis bridges!, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl p. 67 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 613 

 (Catamarca); Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 20 (Entrerios). Nasica gracilirostris, 

 Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 466 (Rio Qiiinto). 



