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subsequently to the publication of the second list of his birds in 18702. These two 
specimens were compared together by Salvin in 1875, and found to be quite alike. 
The Veraguas bird is now figured. The male of C. callopterus will doubtless have a 
large amount of red on the head as well as ared malar stripe, and that sex will be 
distinguished from the male of C. simplex by a yellow stripe passing from the corner 
of the mouth under the eye. | 
The range of this species will doubtless prove to be very restricted, and probably 
hardly passes the limits of the State of Panama. 
6. Chloronerpes simplex. (Tab. LIX. fig. 2.) 
Chloronerpes simplex, Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 212°; Ibis, 1874, p. 317°; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xviii. p. 81°. 
Oleagineo-virescens, gula, pectore et regione auriculari paulo obscurioribus; capite toto, nucha et stria lata 
malari coccineis, pectore maculis discalibus ochraceis guttato, abdomine pallide ochraceo-flavido, trans- 
fasciato ; alis intus castaneis, remigibus omnibus apicibus nigricantibus et nigro transfasciatis ; cauda fusco- 
nigricante extrorsum dorso concolori; rostro et pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota circa 7:0, ale 4°5, caudee 
2-55, rostri a rictu 1:0, tarsi 0°7, dig. med. absque ungue 0°6, dig. ext. 0°55. (Descr. maris ex Chontales, 
Nicaragua. Mus. nostr.) 
mari similis, sed capite toto (nucha excepta) dorso fere concolore paulo obscuriore. 
Hab. Nicaracua, La Libertad in Chontales (W. B. Richardson); Costa Rica, Talamanca 
(Gabb?); Panama, Bugaba?, Chiriqui ® (Arcé). 
A female specimen sent by Arcé from Bugaba, in the district of Chiriqui, was described 
by Salvin in 18701, and a male recognized as of the same species, obtained by Prof. 
Gabb’s expedition to Talamanca, was also described by him in 18742. Arcé sub- 
sequently sent a second female specimen from Chiriqui*. Since then we have received 
two males and a female from Mr. Richardson, who obtained them at La Libertad, in 
the district of Chontales, Nicaragua, in January and February 1892, the female agreeing 
closely with the type. 
C. simplex resembles C. callopterus in many respects, but may readily be distin- 
guished by the absence of the yellow stripe of the latter, which runs from the 
corner of the mouth below the eye, and by the throat being of a uniform colour, 
unbroken by yellow marks. 
Our figure is taken from the type from Bugaba. 
MELANERPES. 
Melanerpes, Swainson, Class. Birds, ii. p. 310 (1837) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p, 290; Hargitt, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 139. 
Centurus, Swainson, Class. Birds, il. p. 810 (1837) ; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 98. 
Tripsurus, Swainson, Class, Birds, ii. p. 311 (1837). 
We use the name JMelanerpes in the wide sense adopted by Mr. Ridgway and 
* Mr. Hargitt® states that this is the type—an obvious mistake. 
