190 CERTHIAD^. 



Sp. 1. Xe. genibarbis. Illiger. — Temm. PL Col. 150. 1. 

 Swain. Zool. Illust. ii.pi. 100. 



Xe. supra fasco rufa, irifra gr'iseo Jusca ; mento superciliis ma- 

 culisque jugularibus et pecioralibus albentibus; inaculd irifrd 

 aures tiiveo, remigium secundorum nigricantium basi Julvd, 

 apicibus marginibusque rufis. 



Xenops above reddish-brown, beneath grey-brown ; chin, eye- 

 brows, and spots on the throat and breast, whitish ; beneath 

 the ears a snowy spot j lesser quills blackish, the base fulvous, 

 their tips and margins rufous. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length four inches and a quar- 

 ter : on the top of the head and the cheeks the 

 feathers are brown, with reddish shafts : above the 

 eye is a white stripe, and beneath towards the out- 

 ward ear is a large spot of the same colour : the back 

 is filemot colour : the throat and the breast are ashy- 

 brown, spotted with ashy-white : the rest of the 

 under parts is ashy-brow^n, without spots : the wings 

 are black, with a large red space in the middle : the 

 two middle tail-feathers are deep black, the rest the 

 same, but bright red towards their tips, the red 

 occupying most space on the lateral feathers, and 

 being placed near the centre on them : the base of 

 the beak is whitish, its tip, and also the legs, ashy. 



Sp. 2. Xe. anatoboides. Temm. PL CoL 150./ 2. 



Xe. riifo-fuscus, guld torque nuchali linedque pone oculos ad 



accipitem extendente albis, caudd riifd. 

 Red-brown Xenops, with the throat, collar on the nape and line 



behind the eyes to the occiput white j tail red. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length seven inches : the top 

 of the head, the cheeks, back and wings are brown- 

 red ; the under parts of the latter are bright reddish, 



