(WEDGE-BILLED WOOD-HEWER.)
+Glyphorhynchus cuneatus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 67; _White, P.
Z. S._ 1882, p. 613 (Misiones).
_Description._--Above olive-brown, superciliaries and small spots on
the side of the head yellowish white, rump and upper tail-coverts
chestnut; wings blackish, outer webs of wing-feathers olive-brown,
basal part of inner webs of secondaries yellowish white, forming a
transverse bar; tail chestnut; beneath earthy olive-brown, whitish
yellow on the throat, and with spots of the same colour on the
upper part of the breast; under wing-coverts white; bill and feet
horn-colour: whole length 5·1 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·4. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ South America from Colombia to Northern Argentina.
This is another northern form of which White obtained specimens in
Misiones. He says it is not uncommon there in the thick woods, also in
the orange-groves about the Jesuit ruins of St. Javier.