. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. DENDROCOLAPTID.*:. b'. Tarsal scutes divided. I Bill longer, more incurved 4. Upucerthia, p. 10. I Bill shorter, less incurved 5. Cxnclodes, p. 21. ( Bill quite straight 6, Henicobnis, p. 2(). d. Rectrices slightlj' spiny. ( Tail long; tarsal scutes divided 7. Clibanounis, p. 27. ) Tail short; tarsal scutes uuited 8. , p. 28. 1. GEOBATES. Type. Geobates, Sio. An. in Men. p. 322 (1838) G. poecilopterus. The short tail and short beak are the chief structural characters of this genus. The secondaries are much lengthened and nearly as long a
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. DENDROCOLAPTID.*:. b'. Tarsal scutes divided. I Bill longer, more incurved 4. Upucerthia, p. 10. I Bill shorter, less incurved 5. Cxnclodes, p. 21. ( Bill quite straight 6, Henicobnis, p. 2(). d. Rectrices slightlj' spiny. ( Tail long; tarsal scutes divided 7. Clibanounis, p. 27. ) Tail short; tarsal scutes uuited 8. , p. 28. 1. GEOBATES. Type. Geobates, Sio. An. in Men. p. 322 (1838) G. poecilopterus. The short tail and short beak are the chief structural characters of this genus. The secondaries are much lengthened and nearly as long as the primaries, and give it a Lark-like appearance. The form is peculiar to the campos of Under surface of left wing of Geobatcs 2)(ecilopterus. 1. Geobates poecilopterus. Anthus poecilopterus, Max. Beifr. iii. p. 633 (1830). Geobates pcEcilopterus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 205, pi. xxi.; Pelz. Orn. Bvaa. p. 35; Scl. et Sah: Nomencl. p. 61 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 332. Geobates brevicauda, Sw. An. in Men. p. 322 (1838); Cah. Mus. Ilein. ii. p. 22 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 215; Rdchenb. Handb. p. 215. Geositta brevicauda, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 131. Anthus fuscus, Bttrm. Sijst. Ueb. iii. p. 120. Above brown; lores and sides of head whitish ; superciliaries pale fulvous; rump more rufous; remiges bright rufous, the pri- maries tipped and banded with blackish, secondaries with a broad subapical blackish baud; coverts and outer secondaries like the back; tail bright rufous, with a broad, blackish, subapical band: beneath fulvous; throat white; breast minutely freckled with brown; flanks ferruginous ; under wing-covcrts ferruginous red,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. [Birds]. London
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