[217.] DENDROCOLAPTES PICUMNUS (Licht.).
(FLAT-BILLED WOOD-HEWER.)
Dendrocolaptes picumnus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 67; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 613 (Misiones).
Description.—Above olivaceous brown; head blackish, thickly covered with yellowish-buff elongated shaft-spots; rump and upper tail-coverts tinged with chestnut; wing-feathers chestnut, tinged with olivaceous; tail chestnut; beneath pale earthy olive-brown, paler on the throat, the shafts of the feathers of the breast buffy white, forming long lines, the feathers of the belly and under tail-coverts transversely barred with blackish; under wing-coverts yellowish white, spotted with blackish; bill and feet black: whole length 10·5 inches, wing 4·7, tail 4·6. Female similar.
Hab. Brazil and Northern Argentina.
White obtained specimens of this species at Concepcion, “in the thickest parts of the woods, near the river, climbing up the trees, around which it turned in corkscrew fashion.”
[218.] DRYMORNIS BRIDGESI, Eyton.
(BRIDGES’S WOOD-HEWER.)
[Plate X.]
