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Show 1873.] THE BIRDS OF EASTERN PERU. 271 Having recently compared together a series of specimens of this genus from Brazil, Cayenne, Columbia, Ecuador, Panama, and Guatemala, we are of opinion that there are not sufficient grounds for maintaining the local forms as distinct species. We therefore propose to reunite the so-called G. castelnaudi and G. pectoralis to G. cuneatus. 22. DENDROCINCLA MERULA (Licht.). "Two examples only of this species were obtained at Chamicuros. The specimen from Borba in Dr. Sclater's collection is perhaps different, being larger than those obtained by me."-E. B. 23. DENDROCOLAPTES VALIDUS (Tsch.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 184. " Upper Ucayali and Chamicuros. Two specimens of this rare bird were obtained in the above localities."-E. B. 24. DENDROCOLAPTES RADIOLATUS, Scl.; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 750, 755. " Yurimaguas and Chamicuros. Several examples were obtained in the latter locality. Only found in the dark and dense forest, climbing about the trees like Xenops."-E. B. 25. DENDRORNIS ROSTRIPALLENS, Des Murs; Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1866, p. 184. " Sarayacu. I never saw this bird after obtaining it in this locality. The habits of all the species of this genus are so much alike that one description will suffice for the whole of them. They are always met with in the dense forest, on the trunks of trees, and breed in holes very high up in the trees."-E. B. 26. DENDRORNIS OCELLATA (Spix). Dendrornis palliata, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 184. Dendrornis ocellata, Scl. & Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, ,pp. 750, 755, 978. Xeberos (Bartlett) ; Pebas (Hauxwell). This species is the D. palliata of Sclater's American Catalogue (but perhaps not of Des Murs). See notes, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 86. 27. DENDRORNIS ELEGANS, V. Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 45. Dendrornis sp. ?, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 750. Mr. Bartlett's two skins from Chyavetas in Sclater's collection agree with a typical Nattererian specimen. Sclater has a fourth example of the same bird from Bogota. " One of the commonest of all this genus, especially at Chamicuros. Very lively and active, alarming every other bird on the approach of an intruder. Builds in holes of trees. I obtained two eggs, which are nearly white."-E. B. 28. DENDRORNIS MULTIGUTTATA, Lafr. In April 1865 Mr. Bartlett obtained a single skin of a Dendrornis |