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y. Dorsum posticum coccineum, abdomen plerumque concolor. 
4. Campophilus splendens. 
Campephilus hematogaster, Salv. (nec Tsch.), P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1571; 1870, p. 212°; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1879, p. 532%. 
Campophilus spendens, Hargitt, Ibis, 1889, p. 58*; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 480°. 
Supra niger, dorso imo, pileo toto, cervice et corpore subtus (mento excepto) coccineis, stria frontali per oculos 
utrinque ducta nigra, supra eam post oculos et infra eam a naribus ochraceo-alba, pectoris lateribus 
nigris, hypochondriis fusco et nigro fasciatis ; subalaribus et maculis magnis in pogoniis internis remigum 
ochraceis ; rostro et pedibus plumbeo-nigricantibus, Long. tota 15:5, alee 7-3, caudee 3-9, rostri a rictu 
2:2, tarsi 1°55, dig. med. absque ungue 0°85, dig. ext. 1:2. 
mari similis, sed gula antica nigra, stria ochracea infra oculos cervicis lateres occupante. (Descr. maris et 
femine ex Antioquia, Colombia. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Panama, Santiago de Veraguas!, Calovevora? (Arcé*).— CoLomBia, State of 
Antioquia °. 
This species is closely allied to C. hematogaster, Tsch., and was not separated from 
that bird till 1889, when Hargitt detected the differences, and gave it a distinct 
name. In the male C. splendens the red colour spreads much further up the throat 
than in C. hematogaster, leaving little more than the chin pure black ; the spots, too, 
of the primaries are more stained with ochre in the former bird, and this character is 
shared by the female. Hargitt states that the bases of the feathers of the hind neck in 
C. splendens are black, whereas they are white in C. hematogaster. In the contracted 
skin of Bogota make this character cannot be examined, but in other specimens, so far 
as we can see, little difference is observable; if anything, the short feathers in both 
birds at the back of the neck are indistinctly barred towards their bases. 
The only adult male of this bird that we have seen was obtained by Salmon in the 
Colombian State of Antioquia. ‘Three skins sent us by Arcé are all females, and are 
narrowly and irregularly barred towards the base of each feather of the under surface, the 
tips alone being red. Whether this extensive barring of these feathers is characteristic 
of C. splendens or not, we are unable at present to say. In the skins of C. hematogaster 
before us not nearly so much is seen, and the barred feathers are so irregularly placed 
that it seems probable that they would disappear in the fully adult bird. 
Salmon noted the iris of C. splendens to be yellow ®. 
Digitus pedis externus (reversus) quam digitus medius brevior. 
CEOPHL(US. 
Ceophlwus, Cabanis, J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 176; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 2, p. 85 (1868) ; 
Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 506. 
Ceophieus, according to Hargitt, contains five species, which we would reduce to 
four—C. fuscipennis being, in our opinion, indistinguishable from C. lineatus. These 
are distributed over the greater part of the Neotropical region, from Mexico to South 
Brazil. One common South-American species, C. lineatus, occurs within our limits, 
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