GUATEMALAN SCLERURUS 



5. Sclerurus guatemalensis guatemalensis 



(Hartlaub) 

 Guatemalan Sclerurus 



Sexes alike. Length 161 mm. (6.30 in.); 

 tail 59 mm. (2.30 in.). Above wholly deep 

 vandyke brown ; chin and throat whitish spotted 

 with dusky; remainder of under parts brown, 

 more reddish tawny on chest and indistinctly 

 spotted with buff. 



About the same size and habits as S. mexicanus 

 anomalus but to be distinguished from that 

 species by its white and spotted throat. 



48. Family DENDROCOLAPTID^ 

 The Woodhewers 



A family of birds of the suborder Tyranni, 

 of South and tropical America, exclusive of 

 the West Indies, which superficially re- 

 semble woodpeckers in habits and appear- 

 ance (though lacking the bright colors often 

 present in that family), but can be at once 

 distinguished from them by their feet, which 

 have only one toe directed backward, being 

 of the type characteristic of the perching 

 birds. Like the woodpeckers, they climb 

 trunks, using the tail feathers, which are 

 more or less rigid and spiny-tipped, to help 

 support the body. 



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