HELEODYTES. 



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Family TEOGLODYTIDiE. 



Wben Brabourne and Chubt published their ' List of the Birds 

 o£ South America ' in 1912, this family was represented by ten 

 genera and one hundred and fifteen species. Se-ven of the genera 

 and ten o£ the species are known to occur io British Gruiana, 



Genus HELEODYTES Cab. 



Meleodytes Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 80,11851. Type S. griseus 

 (Swains.). 



Fig. 136.— To show the form of the bill. 



The species on which this genus was founded is one of the 

 larirest of the Wrens. The bill is long and compressed, the width 

 at the posterior part of the nostrils is about equal to its depth, 

 the nostrils are oval in shape and have a superior membrane. 

 The wing is almost square, the third to the seventh primaries 

 longest and subequal, the second about equal in length to the 

 eio-hth.. The tail is rounded at the tip and nearly as long 

 as the wing. The middle toe and claw are about equal in length to 

 the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female similar. 



566. Heleodytes griseus. 



Laege Marsh-Wken. 



Furnarius griseus Swains. Anim. in Menag. p. 325, 1838 (Savannas of 



Guiana). 

 Campylorhynchus griseus Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 674, 1848 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 186 (part), 1881. 

 Campy lorhnychus hicolor (nee Pelz.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. 



p. 188, 1881 (British Guiana). 

 Heleodytes griseus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Axaer. i. p. 380, no. 3369, 



1912. 



Adult. Crown of the head, nape^ and a line from the lores through 

 the eye backward to the sides of the neck blackish ; entire back, 

 wings, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts clay-brown ; inner webs 

 of the bastard-wing, primary -coverts, and flight-quills blackiah 



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