QLTPHORHTNCHUS. 



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Family DENDROCOLAPTIDiE. 



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

 climbing birds usually known as Wood-hewers, -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 species 

 were represented in British Guiana. 



Genus GlYPHORHYNCHTJS Wied. 



Qlyphorhynchus Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 1149, 1831. Type 

 Q. cuneatus (Licht.). 



Pig. 47. — Qlyphorhynchus cuneatus. 

 This genus is distinguished by the short bill, rather pointed 



