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form as a genus o f Anabatidce, or, as wc prefer to call them, Dendrocolaptidoe. It vvould seem
more natural to consider it as constituting a siih-family, i f not a family, p e r se. An additional,
and apparently hitherto unnoticed peculiarity in the genus Oxyrhamphus is the sciTation o f the
outer well o f the external primary. This is very strongly marked in some specimens o f both the
known species, but we believe it to be restricted to the adult males, as younger birds and
females, as determined by Arcé, do not possess it.
Our figures o f this species are taken from the original specimens, which are now in Salvin
and Godman’s Collection. The upper figure without the red crown represents a young bird;
tbe lower figure an adult female ; from which, however, the male is undistinguishahle in
colouring.
D ec embe e , 186S.
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