140 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



C.lugubris, O.jumana) to decidedly longer (CJlavescens); outer hind 

 toe decidedly shorter than outer front toe; tarsi and toes very stout 

 (less so in C. loricatus), the claws very large and strongly curved. 



Coloration. — General color of upper parts cinnamon-rufous or 

 chestnut (with or without black bars), brown barred with yellowish 

 or buffy, or black barred with buff -yellow; under parts plain brown, 

 cinnamon-rufous, ochraceous, or tawny with black spots, bars or 

 lunules, chestnut with buff flank-patch, or plain black; crest plain 

 buff-yellow, ochraceous, olive-buff, or chestnut; adult male with a 

 broad malar patch of bright red but without any red area on pileum. 

 Texture of plumage peculiar, the feathers of head distinctly outlined 

 (not blended), those of sides and flanks (beneath wings) soft and 

 downy. 



Range. — Southeastern Mexico to southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, 

 Bolivia, and Peru. (About fifteen species, mostly South American.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF CELEUS. 



a. Head conspicuously crested; tail and outer webs of remiges not barred; rump 

 immaculate. 

 h. Under parts, back, and wing-coverts immaculate; middle rec trices wholly 

 black (except basal portion of shaft). 

 c. Inner webs of remiges broadly barred with dusky. (Venezuela, Trinidad, and 



northern Brazil . ) Celeus elegans (extralimital) ." 



cc. Inner webs of remiges immaculate yellow. (Panama.) 



Celeus immaculatus (p. 141). 



hh. Under parts, back, and wing-coverts barred or transversely spotted with black; 



middle rectrices with basal half or more chestnut. (Southern Mexico to 



Costa Rica.) Celeus castaneus (p. 141). 



aa. Head not crested; tail and outer webs of remiges barred; rimip barred with black. 

 (^Celeus loricatus.) 

 b. Under parts of body light dull vinaceous-cinnamon, conspicuously paler than 

 color of throat or fore neck; upper parts with black markings smaller and less 

 numerous, sometimes nearly absent; smaller (male with wing averaging 119, 

 tail 64.8, culmen 21.8, tarsus 20, female with wing averaging 120.2, tail 65.7, 

 culmen 21.5, tarsus 19.5.) (Eastern Panama to northwestern Peru.) 



Celeus loricatus loricatus (p. 143). 

 bb. Under parts of body deep cinnamon, nearly concolor with color of foreneck or 

 (in female) throat; upper parts with black markings larger, more numerous; 

 larger (male with wing averaging 123.9, tail 68.4, culmen 21.5, tarsus 20.5; fe- 

 male with wing averaging 124.2, tail 68.2, culmen 23.1, tarsus 20.5). (Costa 

 Rica; western Panama?) Celeus loricatus diversus (p. 145). 



a Picus elegans Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 92 (Cayenne; based on PI. Enl., 

 pi. 524). — Celeus elegans Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Capit. and Picid., 1868, 87; 

 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 426. — Picus fusco-fulvus Boddaert, Tabl. 

 PI. Enl., 1783, 30 (Cayenne; based on PI. Enl., pi. 524). — [Picus] cinnamomeus 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 428 (Cayenne; based on PI. Enl., pi. 524; etc.).— 

 Celeus cinnamomeus Boie, Isis, 1831, 542. — Celeopicus cinnamomeus Malherbe, Mon. 

 Picid., ii, 1862, 32, pi. 56, figs. 1, 2. The Trinidad bird has, however, been separated 

 as Celeus elegans leotaudi by Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, Feb., 1906, 39, 40 (Valencia, 

 Trinidad; coll. TringMus.). 



