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2. Chloronerpes brasiliensis. 



Picus brasiliensis, Stvains. Zool. Ilhistr. pi. xx. cJ ad. (1820-21) ; 



id. Trans. Wern. Soc. N. Hist. Edin. iii.p. 291 (1821); Steph. Gen. 



Zool.xW. p. 168, S (1820). 

 Picus polyzonus, Valenc. Diet. So. Nat. xl. p. 170 (1326); Drap. 



Diet. Class, xiii. p. 499, $ (1828) ; Sundev. Comp. Av., Picin. p. 12 



(1866). 

 Picus polyzonos, Less. Traite, i. p. 225 (1831) (5 only). 

 Chlorouerpes polyzonus, Gray. Gen. B. ii. p. 443, pi. 110. fig. 4 



(1846) ; Reicheiib. Scans. Pieinte, p. 353, no. 810, pi. dclxxv. fig. 



4466, 5 (1854); Gray, List Pieid. Brit. Mus. p. 107 (1868); id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199," no. 8783 (1870) ; 8ah\ Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 396, no. 1935(1882). 

 ChiTSopicus polyzonus, Bp. Consp. Vulucr. Zyaod. p. 9, no. 145 



(1854). 

 Chloropicus polvzonus, MaUi. Picidee, ii. p. 136, pi. Ixxxiii. figs. 1, 2, 



cJ $ ad. (1862). 

 Craugasus polyzonus. Cab. Sj Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 159 (1863). 

 Chloronerjies capistratus (pt.), Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 243 (1870). 



Adult male. Resembles C clirysoclilorus, but is very much larger, 

 and differs in having the face and entire neck, with the exception 

 of the yellow stripe which runs from the nostrils to the side of the 

 nape and the red malar patch, deep olive ; the dark olive stripe 

 behind tlie malar region extending in an unbroken line to the 

 shoulders and not barred across the lower part as in C. chrijsochlorus, 

 which has only a short olive stripe behind the red malar one, the 

 side of the neck being yellow, and the lower anterior portion barred 

 with olive. Total length 9-3 inches, culmen 1*34, wing 5-6, tail 

 2'83, tarsus 0-86 : toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-86, outer 

 posterior 0-75, inner anterior 0-75, inner posterior 0-32. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the head de- 

 void of red, the whole of the top of the head and the occiput being 

 olive, and the malar stripe also olive, but of a blacker shade. Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 5-9, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Brazil (Province of Bahia). 



a. 2 ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



b. cj ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



3. Chloronerpes xanthochlorus. (Plate I.) 



Chloronerpes xanthochlorus, Svl is' Salv. P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 237, 238, 

 et 1879, p. 533. 



Adult male. Back, rump and upper tail-coverts, scapulars, wing- 

 coverts and outer webs of tjuills olive : inner webs of the quills 

 rufous externally, in an oblique line from the base of the shaft to 

 the margin, about halfway down on the second and third primaries, 

 and reaching nearlj' to the tip in the secondaries, the remaining 

 portion of the web brownish dusky, slightly tinged with olive ; 

 shafts brown ; central tail-feathers bright olive, the lateral feathers 



