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REVIEW OP AMERICAN RIRPS. 



[part I. 



Altlioujrii the gcnuH IlehnMlylen is not represented within the 

 region covered by the present review, 1 introduce a brief nioiitidn 

 of it witli the view of conipieting the liistory of tlie family, as well 

 lis of illustrating the jjeculiurities of the speeies of Cani/ii/lnrfii/iirhi 

 having very siniilur nostrils. The relutionnhips between the two 

 genera are very close, and it is almost a (jueation whether they can 

 bo separated trenchantly from each other. 'I'lie specimen before me, 

 from Mr. Lawrence's collection, is from Hogota; and, as it may be 

 different from the species of Guiana and Venezuela, I subjoin a brief 

 description.' , . 



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CAMPYLORHYNCHUS, Snx. 



Campt/torhynchus, Spix, Av. Bras. I, 1824, 77. 

 Snx = Tuidus vurie(jatus, Omel.) 



(Type C. scolopacetis, 



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Bill stout, compressed, as long as, or longer than the head, without notch 

 or rictal bJstles ; culmen and commissure curved ; gonys nearly straiglit. 

 Nostrils in the antero-iuferior part of nasal groove, in advance of the frontal 

 feathers, with an overhanging scale with thickened edge, as in Thii/oihnnis ; 

 sometimes, as in the type, reduced to a slight ridge along the upper side of 

 the nasal groove. Lateral septum not projecting below or anteriorly into the 

 nasal caviiy, but concealed by the nasal scale. Tarsus a little longer than 

 middle toe and claw ; claws strong, much curved, and very sharp ; middle 

 toe with basal joint adherent almost throughout. Wings and tail about 

 equal, the latter graduated ; the exterior webs of lateral feathers broad. In 

 size the largest of the family. 



' Heleodytea griseus. 



Furnarius griseus, Swainbon, Anim. in Menag. 1838, 325 (2| Centen, 

 No. 134), flg. ()7, 6 (bill), Guiana. — Cnmpylorhi/nchns r/rineus, Cab. 

 Schomburgk, Reise Guiana, III, 1848, 674. — Heleodytea griseun, Cab. 

 Mus. Hein. 1850, 80.— Sclatbk, Catal. 1861, 16, no. 97. 



Whole upper parts, including wings and tail, plain brown, without bars 

 or other markings, as also a line from behind the eye ; the nape and inter- 

 Bcapulum blackish-brown, the top of head lighter, the lower back and rump 

 reddish-brown. Elntire under parts, including lining of wings, tibia, and a 

 broad line from bill over the eye, soiled white. All the tail feathers, except 

 the two central, with a broad sutiterminal bar of white, diminishing in width 

 from the outer feathers to the inner, but at the same distance from the tij)s. 



Total length, 8 ; wing, 3.30 ; tail, 3.45 ; graduation, .45 ; exposed portion 

 of 1st primary, 1. , of 2d, 2.15, of longest, fourth (measured from exposed 

 base of Ist primary), 2.45 ; length of bill from forehead, 1.16, from nostril, 

 .GG; along gape, 1.26 ; tarsus, 1.10; middle toe and claw, 1.10 ; claw alone, 

 .30 ; hiud toe and claw, .87 ; claw alone, .38. 



