(FLAT-BILLED WOOD-HEWER.)
+Dendrocolaptes picumnus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 67; _White, P.
Z. S._ 1882, p. 613 (Misiones).
_Description._--Above olivaceous brown; head blackish, thickly
covered with yellowish-buff elongated shaft-spots; rump and upper
tail-coverts tinged with chestnut; wing-feathers chestnut, tinged
with olivaceous; tail chestnut; beneath pale earthy olive-brown,
paler on the throat, the shafts of the feathers of the breast buffy
white, forming long lines, the feathers of the belly and under
tail-coverts transversely barred with blackish; under wing-coverts
yellowish white, spotted with blackish; bill and feet black: whole
length 10·5 inches, wing 4·7, tail 4·6. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Brazil and Northern Argentina.
White obtained specimens of this species at Concepcion, "in the thickest
parts of the woods, near the river, climbing up the trees, around which
it turned in corkscrew fashion."