190 TIMELIIDJE. 



13. Campylorhynchus couesi*. 



Picolaptes bininneicapillus («r'c Lafr.), Lnwr. Ann. Lye. Keio York, 

 V. p. 114 ; IJaird in Stamhunfs Jicp. p. '-VIl ; Heerm. Joiirn. Acad. 

 Philad. 18.JM, p. 203; Cass. 111. B. Calif. c*j- Te.vas, p. ir,6, pi. 25. 



Campyloi'hynclius bruuneicapillus, Sclater, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1856, 

 p. 261 ; .Z)V«>'/, North Anwr. Birds, 1«58, p. o55 ; Sclater, Cat. 

 Amer. B. p. 17 ; Baird, Beview Anwr. B. p. 99 ; Ihrsser, Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 483; Coues, I'roc. Acad. Philad. 1866, p. 77, 1868, p. 83; 

 Cooper, B. Calif, p. 61 ; Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 5 ; 

 Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 85 ; Baird, Brewer, Sf Bidgiv. North- 

 Amer. B. i. p. 132, pi. 8. tig. 5 ; Ilenshaw, Zool. E.rpl. W. 100 

 Merid. 1876, p. 178; Coves, B. Color. Vail. p. 157; Sah. i^- Godni. 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 67 1- 



AdnJt [male]. General colour above ashy brown, barred across 

 with dusky brown, and varied with triangular spots of white, which 

 are Hanked with blackish markings, producing a barred appearance ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, and marked in the same manner ; pri- 

 mary-coverts dark brown, washed with ashy on the outer web and 

 notched with white towards the ends ; quills sepia-brown, chequered ' 

 with small white notches on the outer web, the secondaries mottled 

 with ashy brown and barred with blackish on the outer web ; all 

 the quills narrowly tipped with whity brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 ashy grey, barred with blackish brown ; centre tail-feathers brown, 

 indistinctly barred with blackish brown, and inclining to ashy 

 brown at the tip ; remainder of tail-feathers blackish, edged with 

 ashy bro\\n near the base of the outer web and at the end of the 

 feather, which has a broad subterminal bar of white near the end 

 of the inner web, the white bars two in number on the penulti- 

 mate feather, the external one being barred with white for its whole 

 extent, the basal bars being narrower ; head dark chocolate-brown, 

 slightly mottled with blackish bases to the feathers ; a broad white 

 eyebrow extending from the base of the bill to the sides of the 

 nape ; lores blackish ; ear-coverts dull white, streaked with blackish, 

 the upper margin chocolate-brown ; throat white, thickly mottled 

 with black spots, all the feathers broadly edged with black as far 

 as the fore neck ; breast creamy white, with pear-shaped spots of 

 black all over it, becoming smaller on the flanks, which are light 

 tawny buff, like the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; under 

 tail- coverts white, washed with tawny buff at the base, with largo 

 heart-shaped spots of black; under wing-coverts duU white, the 



* It is strange that Lafresnaye's name should have been so long used for 

 this species, in spite of the statements made by Professor Baird and Dr. Coues 

 respecting the disagreement of the description with the bird usually called 

 C. bnmneicapillus. Thus Lafresnaye describes his Picvlapfes brunncicap'dlus 

 from " Calif ornia " with the back coloured as follows: — " Parseme, depuis la 

 uuque, des stries blanches, longitudinales et lineaires, occupant le milieu des 

 jilumes." This does not agree with the Texan bird, but with C. affinis. His 

 figure is irrecognizable. 



t For other references to this species in difTereut Survey reports, cf. Coues, B. 

 Color. Vail. p. 157. 



