30 PICIDiE. 



of tlie fore nect and chest ; top of tlie head red 

 ill the male. 

 «'. Chin aud throat spotted with yeUowisli white, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts with yellow 

 creseeutic markings and bars. 



a" . Malar stripe red rivolii, tS ad., p. 30. 



//'. Malar stripe black rivolii, $ ad., p. 31. 



h'. Chin aud tliroat, rump, aud upper tail-coverts 



uniform black. [p. 31. 



c". Malar stripe red hrevirostris, ^ ad., 



d". Malar stripe black hrevirostris, 2 ad., 



B. Wing-coverts and outer webs of secondaries [p. 31. 



almost entirely golden olive, only slightly 

 tipped or margined with red ; with no red on 

 the feathers of the fore neck and chest ; chin 

 and throat spotted ; rum]) and upper tail-coverts 

 uniform ; top of the head black in both sexes. [p. 32. 



c'. Witli red malar stripe atriceps, S ad., 



d'. With black malar stripe atriceps, 5 ad., 



[p. 32. 



1. Hypoxanthus rivolii. 



Picus rivolii, Boiss. liev. Zoof. 1840 (January), p. 3G; TVof/ii. Arch. 



fiir Ncdurg. 1841, p. 100; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 71 (186()). 

 Picus elegans (non Sivains.),Fraser, P. Z. S. 1840 (July), p. 00. 

 Colaptes hypoxanthus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 198, S- 

 Colaptes elegans. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 446 (1840) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. 



Av. i. p. 114 (1850) ; ScUit. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 162. 

 Geopicos rivolii, Mal/i. N. Classif. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 



p. 359. 

 Colaptes rivolii, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B.-p. 61 (1849) ; Beichenh. 



Scans. Picince, p. 415, no. 977, pi. dclxviii. tigs. 4430-31, 5 $ 



(1854) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 345, no. 2057 (1862); Gray, List 



Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 122 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 203, no. 8836 



(1870). 

 Hj'poxanthus rivolii, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. p. 11, no. 228 (1854) ; 



Selut. Sf Salv. Nomcncl. Av. Neotr. p. 101 (1873). 

 Geopicus rivolii, Malh. Picidte, ii. p. 267 (pt. text), pi. cxii. figs. 1, 2, 



c? & ? ad. (1862). 



Adult male. Back and scapulars crimson ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts black with bars and crescentic markings of yellow tinged 

 with red, the lower coverts uniform black ; wing-coverts olive- 

 brown margined with dull crimson ; outer webs of primaries pale 

 olive, those of the secondaries almost entirely crimson, the inner 

 webs of the quills dusky brown, more or less margined with buify 

 white ; shafts rather dull golden yellow ; tail black, the outer 

 large feather externally margined with brownish white ; shafts 

 grading from black in the central to brownish yellow in the outer 

 feathers ; nasal plumes black ; top of the head, occiput, and malar 

 stripe crimson, with partly exposed blackish bases to the feathers, 

 the nape and hind neck, also the side of the neck, bright crimson ; 

 face pale yellow ; chin and throat black, spotted with yellowish 

 white ; fore neck and chest black, washed with crimson, and covered 

 with Y-shaped aud crescentic markings of yellow ; from the breast 



