
DESCRIPTION 
OF 
SOME NEW SPECIES AND A NEW GENUS OF 
DENDROCOLAPTINE. 
By T, C. EYTON, Esa, F.L.S. 

Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus, Kyton. 
D. rostro parim arcuato valdé depresso cultrato; gula, maculis 
tiangularibus capitis yittAque postoculari flayo, rufis; singulis pen- 
Ms pectoris laté, colloque superiore angusté medio eodem colore 
Strigatis ; abdomine pectoreque imo flavo-rufis singulis pennis qua- 
tuor Striis angustis atris et transversis notatis; illis pectore atro 
marginatis ; dorso brunneo-olivaceo, inferiore parte uropygio re- 
tigibus rectricibusque leté cinnamoneo rufis his apicibus brunneo 
vidi vix tinctis ; rostro mandibulé superiore atro inferiore ad 
basin corneo. 
Long. corp. 10.5.; rost. 1.6.; tar. i. 
, This Species of Dendrocolaptes approaches nearer to D. platyros- 
ae Spix, in the form of the bill than to any other species, but has 
more slender, not so broad at the base, but at the same time more 
Reais The specimen from which the above description is taken 
n Lord Derby’s Museum at Knowsley. 
Picolaptes validirostris, Eyton. 
ee valido, areuato, cultrato, ad basin palidé breaneo'; capite 
higno- fis ro, Pettis singulis in medio rufo-flavo Tate strigulatis et 
a Siete bas striis colli mediis statura inter illos capitis 
th medie gula genisque sordidé albis ; pectore abdomineque pennis 
We parte eodem coloris fusco leviter fimbriatis; uropygio 
