. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 2. OEOSITTA. This is a very distinct species, easily known by its white rump and the uniform colour of the remijjes. rt. rf ad. sk. Juuin, Peru (Jelski). Sclater CoU. (Authentic specimen.) 7. Geositta tenuirostris. Certhilauda tenuirostris, d'Orb. et Lufr. Sun. Av. i. p. 72; d'Oib. Voy. Ois. p. 359, t. 43. f. 2. Geositta tenuirostris, Burm. J. f. 0. 1860, p. 249 (Buenos Avres); Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 18G9, p. 153 (Peru), et 1879, p. 619 (Bolivia) ; lid. Nomencl. p. 61 ; Tacs. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 624 (0. Peru), et 1880, p. 20 (N. Peru); t'd. Orn. Pe
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 2. OEOSITTA. This is a very distinct species, easily known by its white rump and the uniform colour of the remijjes. rt. rf ad. sk. Juuin, Peru (Jelski). Sclater CoU. (Authentic specimen.) 7. Geositta tenuirostris. Certhilauda tenuirostris, d'Orb. et Lufr. Sun. Av. i. p. 72; d'Oib. Voy. Ois. p. 359, t. 43. f. 2. Geositta tenuirostris, Burm. J. f. 0. 1860, p. 249 (Buenos Avres); Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 18G9, p. 153 (Peru), et 1879, p. 619 (Bolivia) ; lid. Nomencl. p. 61 ; Tacs. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 624 (0. Peru), et 1880, p. 20 (N. Peru); t'd. Orn. Per. ii. p. 96; White, 1882, p. 609 (rep. Arg.). Above sandy brown; lores, eye-region, and superciliaries reddish fulvous ; wing-coverts and outer secondaries blackish, edged with pale sandy buff ; rest of secondaries and inner primaries chestnut- red, with an irregular subapical blackish band; outer primary hiackish, next three chestnut, edged externally and tipped with blackish ; tail chestnut-red, with a blackish subapical band, which. Bill of Geositta tenuirostris. becomes obsolete on the outer rectrices; two middle rectrices blackish, tipped with fulvous : beneath buffy white, throat clear white; breast mottled with brown ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers reddish ochraceous ; bill and feet black, base of lower mandible carneous: whole length 7'4 inches, wino- 4*5, tail 2-6, hill from gape 1-4. Female similar. Hah. Bolivia and Peru. The long curved bill at once distingaishes this species from all the preceding. a. c? ad. sk. Tungasuclia, Pern ( Wkiteli/). h. 2 ad. sk. Tiuta, Peru (Tfliifeh/). c. cJ ad. sk. Tinta, Peru ( Whiteiii). d. 2 ad. sk. Tinta, Peru ( ffliiteii/). e. Ad. sk. Bohvia. f. Ad. St. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. Sclater Coll. Salvin-Godman Coll. Tweeddale CoU. , Esq. [P.], T. Bridges [C.].. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and a
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