GLYPHORHYNCHUS. 



Ill 



Family DENDROOOLAPTID^. 



The present family consists of the spine-tailed and tree- 

 clin)l)ing birds usually known as Wood-liewers, which have long 

 bills of variable forms, long and stiffened tails, short legs, long- 

 toes, and very sharp claws. At the time when Brabourne & 

 Chubb published their 'List of the Birds of South America' 

 there were eighteen genera and about one hundred and seventeen 

 species. Nine of the genera and about thirteen of the sjjecies 

 were represented in British Guiana. 



Genus GLYPHORHYNCHUS Wied. . 



Glypliorliynclius AVied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 1149, 1831. Type 

 G. cuneatus (Lielit.). 



Fig. 47. — Olyphorhynchus cuneatus. 

 This genus is distinguished by the short Ijill, rallmr pointed 



