2. COLAPTES. 



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e. cJ ad. sk. 



f-i. (5 ad. ; k-n. 

 ad. sk. 



0. (S ad. sk. 



Juv. sk. 

 2 iiutn. sk. 

 c5' imm. sk. 

 Skeleton. 



Taipu, Brazil, Nov. {J. 



A'atferer). 

 Chapada, Matto Grosao, 



March, July, Sept., Nov. 



(//. Smith)' 

 Eio Claro, Prov. Goyaz, 



(Joi/ncr). 

 Bolivia. 

 Bolivia. 



Interior of Bolivia. 

 Brazil. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



9, Colaptes agricola. 



Geopicos agricola, Malh. N. Chissif. 3Iem. Acad. Metz, 1848^9, 



p. 350. ' 



Geopicos campestroides. Rev. de Zool. 1849, p. 541. 

 Chrysoptilus campestroides, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 12:3 (1850) ; 



Jiurm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 2.35 (1855) ; Graxj, List Picid. Brit. Mas. 



p. 94 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 196, no. 874-3 (1870). 

 Chrysoptilus subcanipestris, Reichenb. Scans. Ficince, p. 419, no 98.3 



pi. dclxx. figs. 4439-40, S S (1854). 

 Malherbipicus campestroides, Bi). Consp. Valuer . Ziinod n 11 



no. 227 (1854). jy \> , 



Colaptes australis, Burm. J. f. O. 18G0, p. 244: id. Reise La Plata- 



St. ii. p. 445 (1861). 

 Geopicus agricola, Malh. Picidte, ii. p. 254, pi. cviii. fim. 4, 5, r? 2 



ad. (1862). ^ n , ,o ^ 



Colaptes agricola, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. .34.3, no. 2051 (1862) • 

 mulson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 549 ; Sclat. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 

 p. 101 (1873) ; Lee, Ibis, 1873, p. 134 ; Banmcs, Auk, 1884, p. 25 ; 

 Madar. Zeitsch. f/esamm. Orn. ii. p. 159 (1885) ; Withimj. Ibis, 

 1888, p. 4()8; Sclat. Sj- Huds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 24 (1889). 



Picus agricola, Sundev. Consp. Av.'Picin. p. 77 (186ij). 



Colaptes campestris (non VieilL), White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 618. 



Adult male. Differs from C. campestris in having the chin, throat, 

 and anterior portion of the face white, the feathers on the posterior 

 part of the malar region being mulberry-red spotted with white and 

 having black bases. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-43, wing 

 6-5, tail 4-35, tarsus 1-8; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-9 

 outer posterior 0-85, inner anterior 0-7, inner posterior 0-4.5. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red on 

 the malar region, the posterior feathers being black with white tips. 

 Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-52, wing 6-6, tail 4-4, tarsus 1-2. 



Young female. Besides having the colour less pronounced than in 

 the adult, there are one or two other points of difference, the 

 feathers of the throat and immediately behind the malar region 

 have the black at the base partially exposed ; the central pair of 

 tail-feathers margined on both webs with huffy white and having a 

 partial intermarginal line or row of irregular spots of the same 

 colour, the other tail-feathers externally edged, more or less, with 

 greyish white ; the tips of the quills white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries creamy white. 



