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The Sparrow-like Birds 



into the wood for their prey, as do the Woodpeckers, but seek it in the cracks 

 and crevices of the bark, more after the manner of Nuthatches and Creepers. 



As additional technical characters it may be mentioned that the Dendro- 

 colaptida have holorhinal nostrils, the hinder border of the sternum with a 



FIG. 186. Wood Hewers, i. Dendrornis lacrymosa; 2. Xiphorhynchus pusillus. 



single pair of notches, and the arrangement of the scales on the tarsus of the 

 endaspidean type, that is, have the scales lap round the inner side but deficient 

 on the outside. 



