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Hah. Southern Brazil, from Taquara do Mimdo Novo iuto Lower 

 Uruguay and the Argentine Republic, and south to the Rio Negro 

 in Patagonia. 



a. 2 fid. sk. 



b. 2 <id. sk. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 



d. 2 imni. sk. 



e. (S ad. sk. 



f. V- 'S 2 <id. sk. 



h, i. d 2 ad. sk. 

 k. cJ ad. sk. 



S. Brazil. 



Uruguay, Dec. 8, 1875. 

 Paj'saudu, Aug. 1877. 

 Gualeguaychu, Arg. Rep. 

 La Plata, Arg. Rep. 

 Cosquin, Cordova, Arg. Rep., 



June (K IF. White). 

 Rio Negro, Patagonia, March 



(7^. Ili(chon). 

 Rio Negro, Patagonia, July 



{^Hudson). 



Sclater Coll. 



Alan Peel, Esq. [O.]. 



Alan Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



Sclater Coll. 



Purchased. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 



10. Colaptes rupicola. 



Colaptes rupicola, UOrh. Voij. Amer. Men'il. iv. p. 377, pi. Ixii. 



tig. 1, cJ (1835-44) ; Bridges, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 29 ; Bp. Comp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 114 (1850) ; id. Consp, Valuer. Zyr/od. p. 11, no. 235 



(1854) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 122 (1808) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 202, no. 8832 (1870) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 101 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 632. 

 Geopicus rupicola, Malh. Picidte, ii. p. 271 (text partlv), pl. cxiii. 



tig. 2, 2 ad. (1862). 

 Picus rupicola, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 78 (1866). 

 Colaptes longirostris, Cab. J.f. 0. 1883, p. 97, S*. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts brownish black 

 barred with pale sandy brown ; quills brownish black with more or 

 less buff spots on the outer webs and whiter spots on the inner 

 webs, the innermost feathers barred across both webs with sandy 

 brown ; shafts golden yellow ; rump pale buff barred with black ; 

 tail black, the central pair of feathers on the basal half of both 

 webs, the outer large feather along its whole length, and the remain- 

 ing feathers at the extreme base of both webs, or of the inner one 

 only, very narrowly barred with buff; shafts black with yellow 

 bases, the outer large feather having the shaft yellow ; upper nasal 

 plumes, forehead, crown, occiput, and nape, also the malar region, 

 dark slate-grey, the posterior feathers of the malar stripe tipped 

 with crimson ; hind ncek like the back ; lower nasal plumes, sides 

 of the face and neck, chin and throat, fore neck and chest sandy 

 buff, the two latter having transverse spots of black ; . the entire 

 underparts below the chest, the imder tail-coverts, under wing- 

 coverts, and axillaries pale buff, and (with the exception of a ie\y 

 narrow black bars on the lower series of under tail-coverts) per- 

 fectly uniform : " eye, black centre, cadmium-yellow ring " (D. 

 Forbes). Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 2-2, wing 6-65, tail 

 3-9, tarsus 1-16; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-9, outer 

 posterior 0*8, inner anterior 0'68, inner posterior 0'38. 



* I take this to be only C. rupicola. The ineasurement of the bill (which is 

 tlie only stated point of differeuce) as given by Oabanis is exactly the same as 

 that of the male described by me, whicli is true C. rupicola from 13ulivia. 



