326 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



Moore, in their Catalogue of Birds in the Museum of the East India Gompany, 

 but, in my opinion, erroneously. Specimens are in the Academy Museum. 



51. Gecinus chlorolophus, (Vieillot.) 



9 young. Throat and neck before white, irregularly spotted with dull 

 brown, the latter predominating on the neck ; abdomen dull white with trans- 

 verse bands of greenish brown ; under tail coverts greenish brown with 

 large spots or imperfect bands of white. Upper parts green, quills and tail 

 feathers brownish black, secondaries with a portion of their outer webs 

 golden or orange yellow. In G. xanthoderus, this reddish orange color extends 

 to all the secondary and tertiary quills and to the wing coverts, and the 

 under parts are brownish green with large spots of white on the sides. Both 

 G. chlorolophus and xanthedorus are very handsomely and accurately figured by 

 M. Malherbe (pi. 74, 75). 



52. Gecinus miniatus, (Forster.) 



9 young. Like the adult, but with the throat and breast in front darker 

 and with numerous white points on the throat. Abdomen dull white with 

 transverse dull brownish black bands, wider and more irregular than in adult. 

 Back dull greenish brown with a few light green feathers. 



A specimen from* Siam, which seems to be adult, has very minute white 

 spots on the cheeks, and the brownish black transverse bands on the abdomen 

 rather wider than in specimens from the Malay Archipelago. Siam seems 

 to be an unusual locality, but is undoubtedly correct. 



53. Chrysopicus callopterus, (Lawrence.) 

 Chloronerpes callopterus, Lawr., Annals, Lye. N. Y. 



This curious little Woodpecker from Panama, recently described by Mr. 

 Lawrence of New York, belongs to the same group as Picus chrysochlorus, 

 Vieillot, P. erythropsis, Vieillot, P. chlorocephalus, Gmelin, P. aurulentus, 

 Temminck, and others, all of which are included in his genus Chloropicus by 

 M. Malherbe. It most nearly resembles C. leucolcemus, Malh., Mon. pi. 85, but 

 is smaller, and otherwise apparently quite distinct. The type specimens 

 now in my possession, through the kindness of Mr. Lawrence, seem to be 

 scarcely adult ; the male, very probably in adult plumage, has the head above 

 scarlet, though in the specimen that color is nearly restricted to an occipital 

 band. 



This species is not strictly included in the group Chloronerpes, as defined by 

 Mr. Swainson. 0f the relations of this bird to -C. leucolsemus, Malh., I can 

 only judge from Malherbe's figure of the latter, having no specimen. 



54. Campethera gabonensis, (Verreaux.) 



This little bird in young plumage can scarcely be recognized as this spe- 

 cies, and it is not surprising that it has been regarded as distinct from the 

 adult. The under parts in some specimens are nearly uniform dark brown 

 with a very slight tinge of green, the edges of the feathers only being dull 

 white. One specimen in this plumage in the Acad. Mus. is a young male. 

 Other young birds have the under parts with longitudinal wide bands of dark 

 yellowish green, the margins of the feathers conspicuously edged with green- 

 ish yellow. Adults of both sexes are very correctly given by M. Malherbe 

 (pi. 91, fig. 1, 2). 



55. Campethera Caroli, (Malherbe.) 



The adult male of this species is given by M. Malherbe with his usual ex- 

 cellence. The young male is as fojlows : 



tf young. Similar to the adult, but with the rufous mark on the ear much 

 larger, and with the throat and breast strongly tinged with rufous. White 

 spots on the under parts and especially on the abdomen, larger than in the 

 adult. The female is not in the Academy Museum. In his notes in my pos- 



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