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MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON NEW BIRDS. 



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punctatis : rostro pallide corneo, mandibula mayis alhicante : 

 pedibus nigris : long, tota lO'o, aid 5*0, caudce 4'5, rostri a 

 rictu \'7. 

 Hub. Guatemala, prov. Verse Pacis. 



Sim. D. plcumno, sed rostro loagiore angustiore et colore pallidiore, 

 collo nigro punctate et tectricibus subalaribus ochraceis dignoscen- 

 dus. 



Fig. A. 



Dendrocolaptes punctioollis. 



We have hitherto referred this bird to D. multostrigatus of Eyton 

 (Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 75), but, having recently, through Mr. Thomas 

 Moore's kindness, had an opportunity of examining the type specimen 

 of Mr. Eyton's species in the Derby Museum, find that we have been 

 in error. Mr. Eyton's bird is identical with a Peruvian and New- 

 Granadian species which we consider to be D. validus of Tschudi, 

 although, from the badness of the plate and description in the * Fauna 

 Peruviana,' this identification is open to some doubt. 



