146 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 188-199 (192); wing, 121.5-125 

 (123.9) ; tail, 66.5-71 (68.4) ; exposed culmen, 20.5-22.5 (21.5) ; tarsus, 

 20-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 19-20 (19.5).°^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 190-198 (193); wing, 121.5-126.5 

 (124.2); tail, 67-71 (68.2); exposed culmen, 23-23.5 (23.2); tarsus, 

 20-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 19-19.5 (19.2).^ 



Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica (Sipurio and Rio SIcsola, Tala- 

 manca; Carrillo; El Hogar; Gudcimo) ; Jimenez. 



Celeus mentalis (not of Cassin) Zeled6n, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 283. 



Celeus loricatus (not Meiglyptes loricatus Reichenbach) Zeled6n, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 111 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 124 (Talamanca and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 442, part (Talamanca and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — 

 Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 590 (Rio Siceola, Carrillo, and 

 Guacimo, Costa Rica; crit.). 



[Celeus] loricatus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 226, part (Costa Rica). 



Genus CEOPHLCEUS Cabanis. 



Ceophloeus <= Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., May, 1862, 176. (Type, Pints lineatus 

 Linnaeus.) 



Large Picidae (wing about 160-190 mm.) with conspicuously 

 crested head, slender, short-feathered neck, outer hind toe shorter 

 than outer front toe, bill nearly as deep as wide at nostrils, and 

 under parts of body (posterior to chest) pale brownish or dull yel- 

 lowish barred or spotted with dusky. 



Bill about as long as head or slightly shorter, stout, distinctly 

 chisel-shaped at tip, regularly wedge-shaped in vertical profile, its 

 width at base of maxillary tomia equal to about two-fifths the length 

 of culmen, its depth at anterior end of nostrils a little less than its 

 width at same point; culmen slightly convex subbasally, sharply 

 ridged; gonys distinctly ridged, decidedly longer than mandibular 

 rami, nearly straight, ascending terminally, slightly convex and 

 prominent basally; supranasal ridge very distinct, extending for 

 two-thirds or more the length of maxilla, parallel with culmen; 

 mandibular rami with a more or less distinct oblique ridge and 

 groove. Nostril longitudinally elliptical, situated about midway 

 between culmen and tomium, partly covered by small antrorse hair- 

 like prefrontal feathers. Feathers of malar region and chin small 

 and short, not antrorse, and without bristle-like tips. Orbital region 

 naked, including margin of eyelids. Wing relatively large; longest 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by about one-fourth the length of 

 wing; fifth, sixth, and seventh primaries longest, the ninth about 

 equal to or a little shorter than third, the tenth (outermost) more 



oFive specimens. 

 6 Four specimens. 

 c "Von Ktco, spalten, und <f>Xoe6^, Rinde," (Cabanis.) 



