132 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANV. 



Brit. Mus. XV. p. 172, 1890 (Gariiiiang Kiver) ; Brabourne & Clm])]>, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 257, no. 2617, 1917. 



Adult. Back 'and upper wino-coverts olive-brown with d;irU 

 brown bars to the feathers; upper tail-coverts, primary and 

 secondary quills, and tail rufous-chestnut with a few dark edoings 

 to the upper tail-coverts ; primary-quills brown on the apical 

 portion ; crown of head and nape rather darker than the back, 

 with pale narrow shaft-lines and Ijlack edgings to the feathers ; 

 sides of face buff with brown edoinos to the feathers ; throat 

 pale fulvous with dark brown dotted edgings to the feathers ; 

 breast olive-brown with twin black spots on the feathers ; remain-, 

 der of under surface fulvous regularly barred with dark brown, 

 somewhat brighter on the under wing-coverts ; quill-lining 

 cinnamon-rufous, becoming darker towards the tips of the quills ; 

 lower aspect of tail dull rufous. 



Total length 290 mm., exposed culmen 3;5, wing 139, tail 122, 

 tarsus 29. 



The bird described was collected by Mr. Mc(/onnell, exact 

 locality in British Guiana unknown. 



Breeding-season . Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eg(fs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Anarica )^A.\eY (McConnell collection^; 

 Kamakusa, Kamarang River (Whiteh/). 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



435. Dendrocolaptes certhia. 



Buffon's Barred Wood-hewer. 



Picns certhia Bodd. Tal)!. PI. Enl. p. 38, 1783 (Cayenne). 

 I*ri)nnocopus undulatus Cab. in Sehomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 689, 1818. 

 Dendrocolaptes certhia Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 (Bai-tica Grove, 



Merume Mts., Camacusa, Eoraima 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. XV. p. 173, 1890 (lioraima, Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 257, no. 2621, 1912. 



" Tarikua" (Schomburgk). 



Adult. Upper back and u})per wing-coverts olive-brown barred 

 with dark brown which is more or less concentric on the upper 

 wing-coverts, which have pale central markings ; upper tail- 

 ("overts, primary and secondary quills, and tail rufous-chestnut, 

 with the apical })ortion of the primaiyHjuills brown, and the 



