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Show 1889.] AND GENERA OF DENDROCOLAPTIDiE. 33 2. PHACELLODOMUS RUFIPENNIS, sp. nov. Above reddish earthy brown ; head, rump, wings, and tail brighter, clear rufous ; lores whitish ; wing-end pale blackish : beneath creamy white; breast slightly washed with rufous, and with bright shaft-stripes ; flanks and crissum pale rufous ; under wing-coverts dark rufous ; bill pale brown, under mandible whiter; feet pale brown. Whole length 8*0 inches, wing 2*7, tail 3*7. Hab. Bolivia. Mus. Brit, et P. L. S. This species has a general resemblance to P. ruber, but is distinguished by its earthy-brown back and by the breast being suffused with rufous and marked by very narrow bright shaft-stripes. In P. ruber the breast is of a pure white. It should be remarked that, as I have lately ascertained by examination of the specimens at Paris, the ordinary Phacellodomus of the Argentine Republic, which I have hitherto followed Burmeister and others in referring to P. ruber, is not P. ruber, but P. striaticollis (d'Orb. et Lafr.). 3. THRIPOPHAGA FUSCICEPS, sp. nov. Above earthy brown ; head paler, somewhat cinereous ; interscapu-lium washed with rufous ; edgings of wings and whole tail chestnut-red : beneath yellowish earthy brown, with very narrow brighter shaft-stripes on the breast; under wing-coverts bright rufous ; bill yellowish brown ; feet pale brown. Whole length 6'7 inches, wing •9, tail 3*3. Hab. Bolivia (Bridges). Mus. Brit. The earthy-brown cap at once distinguishes this well-marked species from its congeners. 4. PHILYDOR CERVICALIS, sp. nov. Philydor erythrocercus, Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 420 (?). Above uniform dark olive ; rump and tail chestnut-red: beneath pale greyish olive ; throat white ; breast slightly mottled with greyish olive; under wing-coverts and inner edges of remiges bright cinna-momeous ; bill greenish grey, with a white blotch on the lower mandible; feet plumbeous. Whole length 6*3 inches, wing 3*1, tail 2*8. Hab. British Guiana. Mus. P. L.S. This species seems to me to be decidedly different from P. erythrocercus, although closely allied. It is distinguished by the want of any signs of the superciliary stripe and by the slightly mottled breast. M y specimens were obtained at Bartica Grove and at Camacusa in British Guiana by Mr. Whitely. 5. PICOLAPTES PARVIROSTRIS, sp. nov. Above earthy brown; rump, margins of wing-feathers and tail bright ferruginous ; head and neck behind, down to middle of the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1889, No. III. 3 |