120 BIRDS OF BRITIiSlI GUIANA. 



42G. Dendrocinclopa long-icaiida g-uianensis. 

 Guiana Long-tailed Creeper. 



JJendrocincTa longicanda (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p, 421 (Bartica 



Gvnve, Merume Mts.) ; Sclater, Cat. B.Brit. Miis. xv. p. 10.), 1S90 



(Merume Mts., Bartica Grove). 

 Dcronyclnirn lonrjicaitJn Brabourne & Cbubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 250, 



no. 2584 (part), 1912. 

 J)en(h'ocincla loiKjicauda guicniensis Cliubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



xxxix. p. 61, 1919. 



Adult. Crown of head and sidos o£ face rufous-brown with 

 pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; mantle and back uniform 

 rufous-brown ; flight-qnills and tail chestnut-rufous with brown 

 tips to the primary-f)uiils on the inner webs; throat fulvous; 

 fore-nock, lu'east, abdomen, and sides of body dusky brown, with 

 })ale ferruginous sliaft-lines to the feathers on the fore-neck ; 

 under tail-coverts inclining to rufous ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts cinnamon-rufous ; under surface of quills daik brown 

 with rufous inner edgings. 



Total length 197 mm., exposed culmen 20, wing 09, tail 104, 

 tarsus 23. 



The tvp."^, which is in the British jMu'^eum, was collected at 

 Bartica on the 20th of December, lt>80, by Hem-y AVhitely — 

 Salvin-Godinan collection, 



Breedina-seas^on. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eaqs:. Undescribed. 



Jianqe confined to British Guiana. Merume jMountains, Bartica 

 {Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus XIPHORHYNCHUS Swains. 



Xiplwrlu/nchts Swainson, Phil. Mag. i. p. 440, 1827. Type X. Jlavi- 

 ffoster Swains. 



The species on which this genus was founded has a somewhat 

 long and compressed bill. The wing is- rounded, the third and 

 fourth primaries longest and equal, the second about equal to the 

 sixth, and the first about equal in length to the secondaries. The 

 tail is rounded and graduated, the two middle feathers slightly 

 longest. Tarsus about two-thirds the length of the exposed 

 culmen. (Coloration : male and female similar. 



