LAWRENCE'S WOODHEWER 



Quiet, and found in deepest jungle where it 

 creeps about trees, keeping near the ground. 



5. Xiphorhynchus nanus nanus (Lawrence) 

 Lawrence's Woodhewer 



Sexes alike. Length 220 mm. (8.70 in.); tail 

 86 mm. (3.40 in.). Head, including sides and 

 hindneck, dark brown with oval spots of buff 

 edged with black, forming streaks; back and 

 scapulars olive brown, the feathers of the upper 



FIG. 51. Xiphorhynchus n. nanus 



(Nat. Size) 



back sparsely and rather inconspicuously streaked 

 with buff; lower back, rump and tail chestnut; 

 wing coverts brown, wing quills, chestnut; 

 throat and chest buffy, the lower throat and 

 chest streaked with dusky; remainder of under 

 parts buffy brown, the breast streaked with 

 paler. Bill long, stout and nearly straight, 

 though very curved at tip; tail graduated, the 

 feathers stiff and pointed. 

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