DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW SPECIES 
remigibus rectricibusque leté cinnamoneo-rufis, remigibus externis 
apicibus brunnis yiridi pareé tinctis; pedibus brunneo-corneis. 
Long. corp. 8.5.; ros. fron. i.5,; tarsi, 9,; ale, 4.5. 
The above may be easily distinguished from the other species 
of Picolaptes, by the greater length and strength of the bill. The 
specimen is in the Knowsley Museum. 
Picolaptes atripes, Kyton. 
EP: precedente similis sed pennis medio parte leté albis nigro 
fimbriatis, rostro breviore et gracillioee, et pedibus atris. 
Long. corp. 8.5.; ros. fron. i.5,; tar. 9,; alee, 4.7h. 
This species approaches very nearly to the preceding one, but 
may be at once distinguished from it by the superior length of the 
wing, the slenderness of the bill, the black or very dark brown feet, 
and by the centre of the feathers being pure white instead of dirty 
white. A specimen is in Lord Derby’s Museum and another 1 mY 
own, 
DENDREXETASTES, N. G. 
Generic Character. 
Rostrum validum, arcuatum, parim cultratum, haud altior qual 
latum, naribus magnis vix ovalibus. hesct 
Pedes tarsique validi, cauda duabus rectricibus mediis longissim: 
Dendreaetastes capitoides, Eyton. 
D. capite, dorso abdomineque brunneis, pectore, gula — 
posteriore, pennis medio parte laté albis, atris, dein brunne? ae 
briatis, gulaque brunneo solummodo fimbriata ; uropygio, a: 
remigibusque laté rufo-cinnamoneis illis apicibus brunneo-vi" 
teriore latere prepillatis. : bt 
Long. corp. 93 TOs. fron. i.3,; tar. 11; ala, 4. ie za 
From the form of the bill in this curious genus it might ae 
-sight be supposed to be related to the Capztonnic ; but being des ‘ 
of bristles at the base of the bill, and also the toes being oe 
three in front and one behind, point out its true position to bea 
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