(WHITE-THROATED WOOD-HEWER.)
+Xiphocolaptes albicollis+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 68; _White,
P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 613 (Misiones).
_Description._--Above, head black, with clear whitish-yellow
shaft-spots; lores and long superciliaries white; neck, back, and
upper wing-coverts olive-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts washed
with bright chestnut; wing-feathers dark chestnut, the outer webs
glossed with olivaceous; tail chestnut; beneath pale olive-brown,
buffy white on the throat and with similar shaft-spots on the
breast; feathers of the belly and under tail-coverts transversely
barred with black; under wing-coverts cinnamomeous yellow barred
with black; bill and feet black: whole length 12·0 inches, wing 5·4,
tail 4·8. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Brazil and N. Argentina.
White obtained examples of this large Wood-hewer in Misiones.