440 PICIDZ. 
B. Subtus transfasciatus ; dorsum posticum et tectrices supracaudales coccinea. 
4. Dendrobates ceciliz. 
Mesopicos cecilii, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 538°. 
Chioronerpes cecilii, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 143”. 
Chloronerpes cecilie, Salv. P. Z. 8S. 1867, p. 157°; 1870, p. 218°. 
Dendrobates cecilie, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 366’. 
Supra lete oleagineo-brunnescens, dorso postico, tectricibus supracaudalibus et pileo toto coccineis, nucha flavo- 
aurantiaca; alis extus immaculatis dorso fere concoloribus: subtus fusco-brunneus, albido stricte trans- 
fasciatus ; alis intus fuscis, albo distincte maculatis ; cauda fusca, indistincte transfasciata; rostro et pedi- 
bus saturate plumbeis. Long. tota circa 6-0, ale 3°45, caudex 2:2, rostri a rictu 1°05, tarsi 0-6, dig. med. 
absque ungue 0°5, dig. ext. 0°6. (Descr. maris ex Mina de Chorcha, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari similis, sed pileo toto fusco nec coccineo. 
Hab. Panama, David (Bridges? *), Mina de Chorcha‘, Bibalaz (Arcé).—Co.omsia!; 
W. Ecuapor®. | 
This Woodpecker belongs to a small section of the genus Dendrobates in which the 
lower back and upper tail-coverts are bright red in both sexes. It thus differs conspi- 
cuously from D. oleagineus and its allies; moreover it is banded below, a character 
shared by many South-American members of the genus, and the nape is yellow. Only 
one other species in South America is at all nearly allied to D. ceciliw, and that is 
D. kirki of the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. The latter species may always be 
distinguished by the wing-coverts being spotted with yellow. 
D. cecilie was described by Malherbe from Colombian specimens, and it is not 
unfrequently represented in the trade collections of skins made by the bird-hunters of 
Bogota. Salmon found it in the Province of Antioquia, and Bridges obtained speci- 
mens in Chiriqui, as recorded by Mr. Sclater. The only Panama specimens we have 
seen are from the latter district, whence Arcé sent us two males. Bridges? says this 
Woodpecker is found on the trees in the outskirts of the town of David, but he only 
observed one pair. | 
b. Cervix contracta, plumis parvis vestita ; caput magnum. 
c'. Nares aperte haud plumis obtecte. 
CELEUS. 
Celeus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 420. 
Mr. Hargitt includes fourteen species in Celeus, keeping two small genera, Cerchnei- 
picus, with three species, and Crocomorphus, with two species, distinct. ‘The species of 
both of these genera have usually been included in Celeus. The former, according to 
Mr. Hargitt, differs in having an elongated and not a rounded nostril, and the latter is 
without a distinct ridge on the side of the bill running from above the nostril parallel 
to the culmen. 
