122 BIRDS OF BBITISH GDIANA. 



Range in British Guiana. Takutu Eiver, Ituribisi River, 

 Supenaam River, Bartica, Kamakabra River, Makauria River, 

 Abary River, Anarica River [McConnell collection) ; Bartica 

 {Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Venezuela, North 

 Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk (Reis. Griiian. iii. p. 690) states that he 

 found this bird distributed over the whole of British Guiana. It 

 has the same habits as those of our Common Tree-Creeper (Certhia 

 familiaris). It lives in the woods but is sometimes found on 

 isolated trees. Single individuals may also be observed among 

 flocks that roam through the woods. It nests in the holes of 

 trees. 



428. Xiphorliynclius pardalotus. 



Chestnut-bumped Wood-hewek. 



Dendrocopus pardalotus Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 117, 1818 



(Cayenne). 

 Dendrornis pardalofvs Salvin, Ibis. 1885, p. 422 (Bartica Grove, Cama- 



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



XV. p. 134, 1890 (Eoraima, Merume Mts., Camacusa, Bartica 



Grove). 

 XipTiorhynchus pardalotus Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 251, 



no. 2547, 1912. 



Adult. Head, nape, and sides of face dark brown with small 

 pale fulvous shaft-lines to the feathers which are more minute on 

 the sides of the face ; upper back and upper wing-coverts bronze- 

 brown which extends along the outer webs of the primary-qijills, 

 some of the feathers of the mantle have rather broad shaft-streaks 

 which are narrowly edged with blackish ; primary and secondary 

 quills rufous-chestnut with dark shafts and dark brown on the 

 apical portion of some of the outer primary-quills ; lower back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut ; chin whitish ; throat 

 ferruginous buff, with slight dark edgings to the feathers, which 

 increase in width on the fore-neck ; breast and sides of the body 

 umber-brown with pale broad shaft-lines some of which are 

 narrowly lined with black on the outer webs, the shaft-lines 

 obsolete on the lower flanks ; middle of abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ferruginous buff more or less intermixed with umber- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts cinnamon-buff ; inner portion of 



