18^ 



CERTHIADiE. 



Small Dendrocalaptes of a cinnamon-colour ; beneath olive-brown ; 

 with a shortj, straight^ black beak; rather flat at the base, 

 convex, obtuse at the tip ; head a little, and the breast strigil- 

 lated with fulvous j the jugulum spotted with fulvous, the tail 

 fine chesnut-red ; the quills fuscous, edged with brown ; the 

 shafts on the tail-feathers elongated at the tips, stiff, curved. 



Length six inches and a quarter. Inhabits Brazil. 



Sp. 23. De. ocellatus. (Guttatus in pL) Spio", Avium Nova Spec, 

 p. 8S.pl. xc.f. 1. 



De. subminor, olivaceo-castaneus, rostro fere recto^ non adunco, 

 parvum compressor guld ochraced ; jugulo maculis ochraceis 

 ocellato Juscoque fimhriata; capite, nucha pectoreque Julvo stri- 

 gillatis; maculd auriculari crispd^fulvo strigillata ; collo antico 

 ochraceo-guttato. 



Somewhat small Dendrocalaptes of an olive-chesnut, with the 

 beak nearly straight, not hooked, a little compressed ; the 

 throat ochraceous ; the jugulum with ochraceous spots ocellated 

 and edged with fuscous ; the head, nape and breast strigil- 

 lated with fulvous, with a crisped spot on the ears, striped with 

 fulvous ; the neck guttated with ochraceous in front, 



Length seven inches. Inhabits Brazil. 



Sp. 24. De. Merula. Berl. Mag. 1820. [Lich.) p. 208. sp. 17. 

 De. rostro recto, brevi, nalido, nigro, apice deflexo ; corpora im- 



maculato; gula alba. 

 Dendrocalaptes with a short, straight, stout, black beak, with its, 



tip bent down ; the body immaculate ; the throat white. 



Inhabits 



Sp. 25. De. sylviellus. Temm. PI Col. 72./. 1. 



Inhabits Brazil. No description by M. Tem- 

 minck. 



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