. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 126 BIKDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. this bird is distributed throughout British G-uiana and has similar climbing habits to that of our Common Tree-ereeper (Cert/da familiaris). Although it usually lives in woods, individuals are sometimes found on isolated trees. It makes its nest in the holes of trees. Genus THRIPOBEOTTJS Cab. Thripohrotm Cabanis, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1847, i. p. 339. Type (VieiU.).. Fig. 51.—Thripohrotus fuscus. The species on which this genus was based has a somewhat long, slender
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 126 BIKDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. this bird is distributed throughout British G-uiana and has similar climbing habits to that of our Common Tree-ereeper (Cert/da familiaris). Although it usually lives in woods, individuals are sometimes found on isolated trees. It makes its nest in the holes of trees. Genus THRIPOBEOTTJS Cab. Thripohrotm Cabanis, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1847, i. p. 339. Type (VieiU.).. Fig. 51.—Thripohrotus fuscus. The species on which this genus was based has a somewhat long, slender, and compressed bill. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and equal, the second intermediate in length between the fifth and sixth and the first is about equal to the outer secondaries. The tail, which is rounded at the tip and graduated, is about seven-tenths the length of the wing, the shafts are bare at the tips and the two middle feathers longest. The tarsus is shorter than the exposed culmen and the middle toe and claw about two-thirds the length of the latter. Coloration : male and female similar. Key to the Species. A. Smaller, wing less than 90 mm. a. General colour darker both above and below T. punctieeps, Tp. 126. B. Larger, wing more than 90 mm. h. General colour paler both above and below T. alholineatus, p. 127. 431. Thripobrotus puncticeps. Spotted-ckownbd Wood-hewee. Ficolaptes puncticeps Sclater & Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr. pp. 69,160, 1873 (Interior of GuianaJ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 422 (Me'rurag. 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 Chubb, Charles; McConnell, Frederick Vavasour, d. 1914. London, B. Quaritch
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