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1. Chloronerpes chrysochlorus. 



Picus chrysochlorus, VieiU. y. But. cTIIid. Nut. xxvi. p. 98 (1818) ; 



jrf. S) Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1320 (1823); Sundev. Comp. Av. 



Picin. p. 12 (1866). 

 Picus macrocephalus, Spix, Av. Sras. i. p. 60, pi. liii. fig. 2, c? 



(1824). 

 Picus aurulentus (non III.), Ji'af/l. Si/sf. Av. Picus, sp. 49 (1827) 



(J onli/) ; Lesson, Traife, i. p. 224 (I'^ol) (cJ only). 

 Chloronerpes macrocephalus, Smiins. Classif. B. ii. p. 308 (1837). 

 Chloronerpes aurulentus (?io« ///.), Bp. Consp. Ge?i. Av. i. p. 116 



(1850). 

 Chloronerpes brasiliensis {non Siciiins.), Beichenb. Scans. Picince, 



p. 351, no. 804, pi. dcxsii. figs. 4148-49 (1854). 

 Chrvsopicus brasiliensis, £/>. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9, no. 152 



(1854). 

 Chloropicus chrysochlorus, Malh. Picidte, ii. p. 141, pi. Ixxxiv. figs. 1, 



2, J 5 (1862). 

 Chloropicus brasiliensis, Malh. Picidcp, ii. pi. Ixxxv. figs. 1 cJ (juv.?), 



2 $ (1862). 

 Craugasus chrysochlorus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 1-59 



(1863). 

 Chloronerpes chrysochlorus. Gray, List Pieid. Brit. Mus. p. 106 



(1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8781 (1870); Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. p. 243 (1870); Scl. ^- Salv. Nomend. Av. Neotr. p. 99 



(1873). 



Adult male. Entire back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, 

 ■wing-coverts, and outer webs of quills olive, brighter on the back 

 and wing-coverts ; inner webs of the quills brown, with a broad 

 and elongated marginal patch of rufous or rufous buff on the basal 

 portion ; shafts brown ; tail blackish brown, the feathers paler on 

 the margin, and more or less edged with olive at the base ; shafts 

 brown with black tips, the base of the central pair yellowish ; upper 

 nasal plumes deep olive, the lower ones yellow; forehead, crown, 

 occiput, and nape, also the malar stripe, crimson ; face dark olive, 

 with a bright yellow stripe from the base of the upper mandible 

 running on to the side of the neck, which is also yellow ; chin and 

 throat uniform golden yellow : fore neck to the vent golden yellow, 

 the under tail-coverts whiter, the whole barred with blackish olive ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries rufous buff, the tips of the latter 

 and the edge of the wing golden yellow. Total length 8"3 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 4"S5, tail 2-S5, tarsus 0"8 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0-63, outer posterior 0'03, inner anterior 0-bo, inner 

 posterior 0'27. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the entire absence of 

 red on the head, the top of the head, occiput, and nape being golden 

 olive like the back, and the malar stripe deep olive. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 0'98, wing 4-&5, tail 2-8, tarsus U"78. 



Hah. South Brazil, north to Cujaba, and in Paraguay. 



a. 5 ad. sk. S.E. Brazil (/. Trrreava). Sclater Coll. 



