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CERTHIADiE. 



Sp. 16. De. picumnus. Berl Trans. 1820. {Lich.) f. 202. sp. 8. 



De. rostro rectiusculo, valido, cultrato, livido; abdomine ochraceo, 



transversim Jusco-undulato. 

 Dendrocalaptes with a somewhat straight, stout, cultrate, livid 



beak ; with the abdomen ochraceous, transversely undulated 



with brown. 



Le grimpar picicule. Le Vaill. Per. pi. 26. — Le picicule. Vieil. 

 Sucrier, pi. 79. — Le grand pic grimpereau. D'Azara, 241. — 

 Dendrocalaptes decumanus. Illiger. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



Sp. 17. De. turdinus. Berl. Trans. 1820. (Lich.) p. 204. sp. 14. 



Spix, Avium Nova Spec. p. 90. 

 De. mediocris, olivaceO'brunneus, immaculatus, rostro brevius- 

 culof largiore, rectiusculo, ad apicem adunco, non dentato; 

 supra nigro, subtus albido; capite colloque subtus ferrugineo 

 substrigillatis ; cauda castaned ; dorso pectore abdomineque 

 brunneis, non strigillatis ; alis fusco-brunneis , subtus antice Jer- 

 rugineis. 



Moderate, olive-brown, immaculate Dendrocalaptes, with a 

 straightened, large, shortish beak, hooked at the tip, but not 

 dentate ; black above and whitish beneath ; with the head and 

 neck beneath rather strigillated with rust-colour j the tail ches- 

 nut; the back, breast, and abdomen brown, not strigillated; the 

 wings fuscous-brown above ; beneath rust-coloured anteriorly. 



Length seven inches and a quarter. Inhabits 

 Brazil. 



Sp. 18. De Picus. Herm. Berl. Trans. 1820. {Lich.) p. 203. 

 sp. 9. 



De. rostro recto, porrecto, compresso, acuto, albo, gonyde ascen- 



dente; guld alba; pectore squamato guttata. 

 Dendrocalaptes with a straight, porrect, compressed, white beak, 



with its gonix ascending ; the throat white ; the breast with 



scale-like spots. 



Dendrocalaptes minor. Illig. — Le grimper Talapiot. Le Vaill. 

 Prom. pi. 27.— -Gracula Picoides. Shaw, v. viii. p. 476. 



Inhabits Guiana. 



