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CAMPYLORIITNCHUS. 



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Acaileniy, from San Carlos and elsewhere, exhibit not the allghtest trace of 

 spots or otlier markings on the under surface, and no longitudinal light st-eaks 

 oil tiie Imck. 



(■M<,li:A.) Total length, 6.00 • wiug, 2.70 ; taU, 2.65 ; graduation .35; ex- 

 jMHed portion of ^st primary, 1.10, of 2d, l.tiO, of longest, 4th (measured from 

 exposed base of lit primary), 2.00: length of bill from forthead, .92, from 

 nostril, .5t) ; along gape, 1.06; tarsas, ].06; middle toe and claw, .80; claw 

 alone, .27 ; hind toe and claw, .70 ; claw alone, .30. 



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Gampylorhynchus ruflnucha. 



C. rujinucha, Lafr. R. Z. 1845, 339 (Mexico). — Picolaptcs rufinucha, 

 Lkss. Descr. 1847, 285 (Vera Cruz). — C capistratus, Sil. P. Z. S. 

 1859, 36." (Xalapa). 

 Ilah. Eastern and southern Mexico ? 



I am unable to say whether the following" references belong to ca- 

 jnstratus or rujinucha : — 



Picolaptes capistratvs, DesMdrs. Icon. Om. pi. Ixili. — Campi/lnrht/nchint 

 capislratm, ScL. P. Z. S. 1859, 371 (Oaxaca).— Ib. Ibis, I, 1859, 9 

 (Honduras and Belize). 



Authors have, I think, been mistaken in referring the Picolaptes 

 rujinucha, of Lafresnaye, from eastern Mexico, to the P. capistratua, 

 of Lesson, from, and apparently confined to the west coast of Central 

 America. The specimens before me are not in very good condition, 

 but thoy indicate, both in coloration and proportion, differences which 

 are noi readily reconciled. In both species the whole top of the 

 head, with the line back and in front of the eye, are blackish. In 

 rujinutha, however, the exposed feathers of the back and scapulars 

 are streaked conspicuously with soiled whitish, with the blackish 

 external suffusion, the black sometimes forming large rounded spots 

 on each side the shaft. The spots on the wings are whitish, riitlicr 

 than brownish-yellow. The tail feathers are black, broadly ended 

 with white, vSoiled at the end, but the outer webs of all (exccjit the 

 two centra!), exhibit a series of six or seven quadrate white spots, 

 instead of being fewer in numJier and confined to the outer feather. 

 The under parts are soiled whitish ; each feather, as far as can bo 

 ascertained, except perhaps the chin and throat, with two or three 

 very small spots, usually in pairs. The crissum shows conspicuously 





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