BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 275 
Coloration.—Above plain olive-brown, the tail, upper tail-coverts, 
and secondaries chestnut; beneath light olive, the chest with cuneate 
spots of pale buff or whitish, the throat buff spotted or flecked with 
olive; inner webs of remiges crossed by a broad band of buff or 
ochraceous. 
Nidification.—Nests in holes; eggs white. 
Range—Southern Mexico to Cayenne, Brazil and Ecuadér. 
(Two species.*) 
KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF GLYPHORYNCHUS CUNEATUS. 
a. Under parts paler, with chest indistinctly streaked or nearly uniform grayish 
brown, the chin and throat paler buffy. (Brazil, etc.) 
Glyphorynchus cuneatus cuneatus (extralimital).6 
aa. Under parts darker, with chest more conspicuously marked with triangular or 
wedge-shaped spots or streaks of buffy; chin and throat deeper buff. (South- 
eastern Mexico to Panamé.).....-..-Glyphorynchus cuneatus pectoralis (p. 275). 
GLYPHORYNCHUS CUNEATUS PECTORALIS (Sclater). 
NORTHERN WEDGEBILL. 
Similar to G. c. cuneatus Lichtenstein, of Brazil, but under parts 
darker, chin and throat more deeply buffy and triangular or wedge- 
shaped markings on chest larger and more distinct. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum sooty brown or sepia, the forehead 
usually indistinctly streaked or flecked with paler brown or dull 
buffy; back and scapulars plain raw-umber or russet-brown, passing 
into cinnamon-rufous on rump and upper tail-coverts; tail deeper 
cinnamon-rufous or rufous-chestnut, the shafts of rectrices bright 
cinnamon-rufous or orange-rufous; wings similar in color to back 
but slightly more rufescent, the proximal secondaries (tertials) dull 
cinnamon-rufous; a narrow superciliary stripe of dull buff or buffy 
whitish, broken by ‘small streaks of brown; auricular region sooty 
brown, narrowly streaked with dull buff or buffy whitish, the sub- 
orbital region with small spots or flecks of the same; chin and throat 
buff to tawny-buff, the feathers (except, sometimes, those of chin) 
«J have not seen G. castelnaudi Des Murs, which possibly is only a subspecies of 
G. cuneatus (Lichtenstein). (Glyphorhynchus castelnaudi Des Murs, in Castelnau’s 
Expéd., Ois., 1855, 47, pl. 15, fig. 2..—Glyphorhynchus cuneatus castelnaudi Berlepsch 
and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 563 (Chimbo, n. w. Ecuador; crit.). 
b D{endrocolaptes] cuneatus Lichtenstein, Abh. Kénigl. Ak. Wissensch, Berlin for 
1818-19 (1820), 204, pl. 2, fig. 2 (locality not given, but in vol. for 1822, p. 266, given 
as Bahia, Brazil; coll. Berlin Mus.).—Glyphorhynchus cuneatus Strickland, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1841, 28, in text; Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 124, 
part.—Glyphorhynchus cuneatus cuneatus Menegaux and Hellmayr, Mém. Soc. Hist. 
Nat. d’Autun, xix, 1906, 97 (crit.)—G[lyphorynchus] ruficaudus Maximilian, Beitr. 
Naturg. Bras., iii, pt. ii, 1831, 1150 (Brazil; type now in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.; 
see Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 248).—Zenophasia platyryncha Swainson, 
Anim. in Menag., pt. iii, Jan. 1, 1838, 352 (Brazil; coll. W. Swainson).—Sittasomus 
flammulatus Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 315 (Brazil?; coll. Paris Mus.). 
