DBNDEOCOLAPTES. 



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Genus LENDROCOLAPTES Herm. 



Bendrocolaptes Hermann, Obs. Zool. p. 135, 1804. Type B. certhia 

 (Bodcl.). 



Fig. 53. — Bendrocolaptes certhia. 



This genus contains some of the largest species of the family. 

 The bill is wide at the base and laterally depressed, the culmen 

 sharply keeled, and the tip of the upper mandible hooked. The 

 wing is somewhat pointed, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 longest and equal, the second slightly shorter than the sixth but 

 longer than the seventh, and the first about three fourths the 

 length of the second. The tail is rounded and graduated, the two 

 middle feathers longest, all the shafts protruding, and decurved 

 at the tips. Tarsus about equal in length to the middle toe and 

 claw, front claws much more sharply curved tiian the hind one. 

 Coloriifcion : male and female similar. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Crown of head with longitudinal pale fulvous 

 shaft-streaks ; breast with pale elongated streaks 

 to the feathers ; abdomen broadly barred with 



brown B. plagosus, p. 131. 



B. Crown of head without pale elongated shaft- 

 streaks, the feathers barred; breast and abdo- 

 men fulvous narrowly barred with brown B. certhia, Tp. 1^2. 



434. Bendrocolaptes plagosus. 



Black-banded Wood-hewer. 

 # 

 Bendrocolaptes plagosus Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1883, p. 210 (Cama- 

 cusa, British Guiana) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 ; Sclater, Cat. B. 



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