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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 njiper part of the head bright golden olive. 



Wing. Tail. Bill. 



Four adult males (including the t;/pi') . . 136—140 76—83 26—30 mm. 

 Si.K adult females 133_140 75—82 25—28 „ 



3i)0. Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.). 



Pk-m r.rurntatns Boddaerfc, TaU. PI. cnl. p. 4:! (178:!.— e.\ D'Aubenton, PI. enl. 004. fig. 2; 



Cayenne). 

 MclanerjKx criieittaliis Hellmayr, Xm:. Znol. xiv. p. 397 (Humaytha). 

 M. hinindinaceus Pelzeln, l.c p. 248 (Salto Girao, Borba). 



No. 769. c? ad., AUianca, 9. xi. 1907. "Iris 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. 



[31)1. Veniliornis ruficeps ruficeps (Spi.\). 



Pirns rufirppx Spi.x, .li'. Bnis. i. p. (,?,. pi. Ivi. figs. 2 {^), 3 (?) (1824.— "in sylvis lluminis 



Amazonum"). 

 Campias ruficeps var, a, Pelzeln, l.c. p. 245 (part. : Borba). 



Right bank : Borba (Natterer). 



The single adult male procnred August 21, 1830, agrees in coloration with 

 specimens from Para and Marabitanas, upper Rio Negro. The median and greater 

 wing-covcrts 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 Tapaj(')Z, near Itaituba,* in the 

 Para district, as well as in the neighbouring province of Maranhfio, whence the 

 Blunich Museum has received several examples through Mr. F. Schwanda.] 



302. Veniliornis ruficeps haematostyg'ma (Malherbe). 



Mcsnpicns hiiPiiiatustiiijma Malherbe (e.x Xatterer JIS.), .)f:iiio(ji: Picid. ii. p. 72. pi. Gl. fig. 2 (1862. — 

 typs = <? ^<3., Engenho do Garni, Rio Guapore', Xatterer coll. in Vienna Museum). 



Campias ruficeps (var. /3) Pelzeln, l.c. p. 24G (part. ; Mattogrosso ; Ribeirao, Salto Theotonio, Rio 

 Madeira). 



Veniliornis rnfi-cps haemalnstijfjma Hellmayr, Nno. Zoul. xiv. p. 307 (Humaytha). 



Nos. 218, 228. S ad., i imm., Calama, 13, 15. vii. 1907.— Wing 96, 94 ; tail 

 60, 64 ; bill 2U, 20 mm. 



No. 023. i ad., Maruins, 11. vi. 1907.— Wing 91 ; tail 58 ; bill 21 mm. 



Nos. 66, 1047. ? ? ad., Calama, 17. vi. 1907 ; Maruins, 22. vii. 190S._Wing 

 96, 92; tail 58, 57 ; bill 191, 19 mm. 



" Iris reddish brown, feet blackish, bill blackish grey." 



This series, as well as the specimens secured by Natterer on the njipcr ]{io 

 Mailoira (Uibeirao, Salto Theotonio) and in Western Mattogrosso (Engenho do 

 Gama, Villa Maria), differ from V. r. ruficeps by having the blood-red area on the 

 upper wing-coverts much deeper and far more e.\tended, etc. The light shaft- 

 streaks within this red zone are either wholly absent or but indistinctly indicated. 

 The dusky barring of the lower j)arts is not so dark, and the back less golden 

 yellow. 



(jf. Abliiinill. Bai/cr. A/mil. Wisscnsch. II. CI. vol. xxii. 3. I'.iOO. pp. OD'.i-ll. 

 ♦ (/f. Aov. Zool. xiv. UI07. p. 2i5, 



