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to the under tail-coverts, both inchisive, dull golden yellow, the 

 upper breast, sides of the bodj-, and flanks with crescentic black 

 markings ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull golden j-ellow, the 

 edge of the wing varied with black. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 1*68, wing 5-5, tail 3-9, tarsus 1-05 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior O'T, outer posterior (J-7, inner anterior U'62, inner 

 posterior 0*3S. 



Adult female. Has the forehead, crown, and malar stripe black, 

 but otherwise resembles the male. Total length 11 inches, cul- 

 men 1-5, wing 5-4, tail 4-05, tarsus 1-02. 



Hah, U. S. Colombia (Bogota) and Venezuela. 



a. Ad. sk. Colombia. Tweeddale Coll. 



b,c. c? 5 ad. sk. New Granada. Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



d. 5 ad. St. New Granada. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



e. S ad. ; /-*. J Bogota. Tweeddale Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



h. 1mm. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



I, m. S $ ad. St. Santa Fe, Bogota. Purchased. 



6 ad. ; 0, p. Santa Fe, Bogota. Purchased. 



$ ad.sk. 



Subsp. Hypoxanthus brevirostris. 



Colaptes elegans {nun Sivains.), Sclat. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 55-5 : id. on 



cit. 18lJ0, pp. 81-95. 

 Geopicus rivolii, Malh. Picid. ii. p. 267 (pt. text) (1862). 

 Colaptes rivolii (pt.), Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 345, no. 2057 (18G2). 

 Hvpoxantbus brevirostris, Tacz. P. Z. &'. 1874, p. 446 ; id. op. cit. 



1880, p. 209 ; id. op. cit. 1882, p. 43. 

 Hypoxanthus sequatorialis, Dubois, Bull. Acad. R. Belae, 1879. 



p. 823. ' 



Hypoxanthus rivolii (no« Boiss.), Sclat. &■ Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 533. 

 Hj^oxanthus rivolii brevirostris, Berl. Sf Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 307 ; 



iid. op. cit. 1885, p. 107 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 90 (1886). 



Adult male. Resembles If. rivolii, but may be distinguished by its 

 uniform black cliin and throat, rump and upper tail-coverts. Total 

 length lU inches, culmen 1-3, wing 5-2, tail 3-85, tarsus 0-95; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-8, outer posterior O'S, iimer 

 anterior 0-56, inner posterior 0-38. 



Adult female. Difiers from the adult male in having the forehead, 

 crown, and malar stripe black. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-18, 

 wing 5, tail 3"55, tarsus 0-95. 



The dimensions of examples from New Granada are considerably 

 greater than those of the typical Peruvian birds, and approach more 

 to those of Id. rivolii. 



Hub. Central and Northern Peru ; Ecuador and Western Colombia 

 to Antioquia. 



a. (S ad. sk. Retire, Antioquia (T. K. Sal- Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



mon). 



b. $ ad. sk. Santa Elena, Antioquia {T. K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salmon). 



