112 BIBDS OF BRITISH GUIANA, 



■wings, somewhat long tail, slender feetj and sharply curved claws. 

 The bill flattened at the tip of the upper mandible, and the outer 

 edges turned inwards. The wing is rather pointed, the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and subequal, the first 

 slightly shorter than the seventh. The tail is rounded and 

 graduated, the feathers curved towards the apical portion, and 

 the shafts extended and bare at the tips. The feet are small, the 

 two outer toes longest and about equal in length and the inner 

 and hinder toes, measured from the same point, are nearly equal, 

 and the claws are sharply curved with needle-like points. 

 Coloration : male and female similar. 



422. Glypliorliynclius cuneatus simillimus. 



Wedge-billed Wood-hewer. 



GlypJiorhynchus guneatus (nee Licht.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 (Bar- 



tica Grove, Camacusa, Roaima 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. XV. p. 154, 1890 (Eoraima, Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; 



Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 392, 1910 (Aremu River); 



Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 248, no. 2561 (part), 1912. ■ 

 OlypTiorTiynchus cuneatus simillimus Hartert & Goodson, Nov. Zool. 



xxiv. p. 419, 1917. 

 Wedge-billed Pigmy Woodhewer, Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



pp. 339, 392, 1910. 



Adult female. Crown of the head, upper back, scapulars, upper 

 wing-coverts, and outer aspect of flight-quills dark ochreous 

 brown ; primary-coverts and inner webs of flight-quills blackish 

 with a patch of white on the basal portion of the latter, inner- 

 most secondaries tinged with chestnut ; lower back, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and tail rufous chestnut ; forehead somewhat darker 

 than the crown, with pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; lores similar 

 with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; sides of face ochreous 

 brown, the feathers streaked or tipped with bufty-white; a narrow 

 superciliary streak also buffy-white ; chin and throat ferruginous ■ 

 more or less intermixed wilh brown ; remainder of the under surface 

 dull ochreous brown with broad bufEy-white lanceolate markings 

 to the feathers on the fore-neck, which fade off into narrow 

 streaks on the breast and become almost obsolete on the abdo- 

 men and sides of the body ; under tail-coverts similar but inclining 

 to chestnut-rufous at the tips ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white, outer edge of wing below ochreous brown ; under surface 



