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Adult. Under parts from chin to tail-coverts regularly barred with dark olive- 
green and yellowish white. Male with pileum and broad mystacal stripe crimson. 
Female with upper part of the head bright golden olive. 
Wing. Tail. Bill. 
Four adult males (including the type). - 136—140 76—83 26—30 mm. 
Six adult females . ; 133—140 75—82 25—98 
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300, Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.). 
Picus cruentatus Boddaert, Tabl. Pl, enl. p. 43 (1783.—ex D’Aubenton, Pl. enl. 694. fig. 2: 
Cayenne). 
Melanerpes cruentatus Hellmayr, Nor. Zool. xiv. p. 397 (Humaytha). 
M. hirundinaceus Pelzeln, 1.c, p. 248 (Salto Girao, Borba), 
No. 769. g ad., Allianca, 9. xi. 1907. “Trig clear yellow, feet dark green, 
bill black.”—Wing 113 ; tail 61; bill 24 mm. 
Typical with broad superciliaries, creamy above the eye, golden yellow in its 
posterior portion. 
(301. Veniliornis ruficeps ruficeps (Spix). 
Picus ruficeps Spix, Av. Bras, i. p. 63. pl. Ivi. figs. 2 (g¢), 3 (?) (1824.—“in sylvis fluminis 
Amazonum ”), ; 
Campias ruficeps var. a, Pelzeln, 1.c. p. 245 (part.: Borba). 
Right bank : Borba (Natterer), 
The single adult male procured August 21, 1830, agrees in coloration with 
specimens from Parad and Marabitanas, upper Rio Negro. The median and greater 
Wing-coverts have distinct, though narrow, pale yellow shaft-streaks, surrounded 
at the tip by a rather restricted dull red zone. 
The same form occurs on the left bank of the Tapajéz, near Itaittiba,* in the 
Para district, as well as in the neighbouring province of Maranhao, whence the 
Munich Musenm has received several examples through Mr. F. Schwanda.] 
302. Veniliornis ruficeps haematostygma (Malherbe). 
Mesopicus haematostygyma Malherbe (ex Natterer MS.), Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 72. pl. 61. fig. 2 (1862.— 
type = ¢ ad., Engenho do Gama, Rio Guaporé, Natterer coll. in Vienna Museum). 
Campias ruficeps (var. 8) Pelzeln, /.c. p. 246 (part. ; Mattogrosso ; Ribeirio, Salto Theotonio, Rio 
Madeira). 
Veniliornis ruficeps haematostygma Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 397 (Humaytha), 
Nos. 218, 228. 3 ad., ¢ imm., Calama, 13, 15, vii. 1907,—Wing 96, 94; tail 
60, 64 ; bill 214, 20 mm. 
No. 923. 3 ad., Maruins, 11. vi. 1907.—Wing 91; tail 58; bill 21 mm. 
_ Nos. 66, 1047. 9 2 ad., Calama, 17. vi. 1907 ; Maruins, 22. vii. 1908.—Wing 
96, 92; tail 58, 57; bill 194, 19 mm. 
“Tris reddish brown, feet blackish, bill blackish grey.” 
This series, as well as the specimens secured by Natterer on the upper Rio 
Madeira (Ribeiréo, Salto Theotonio) and in Western Mattogrosso (Engenho do 
Gama, Villa Maria), differ from V. 7. ruficeps by having the blood-red area on the 
upper wing-coverts much deeper and far more extended, etc. The light shaft- 
streaks within this red zone are either wholly absent or but indistinctly indicated. 
The dusky barring of the lower parts is not so dark, and the back less golden 
yellow. 
Cf. Abhandl. Bayer. Akad, Wissensch, IT. Cl. vol. xxii, 3. 1906. pp. 609-11, 
* CE. Nov, Zool. xiv, 1907. p- 25, 
