5. CHLORONERPES. 75 



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

 of red on the head, the forehead, crown, occiput, and nape, as well 

 as the malar region, being olive. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 

 1-13, wing 5-42, tail 2-86, tarsus 0-77. 



Hah. Upper Amazons, from Barra do Rio Negro west into 

 Ecuador, and north into British Guiana (Eupununi Kiver). 



a. 2 _ad. St. South America. Old Coll. 



b. (S imm. ; c. 5 Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. ley). 



d. 2 ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. Buck- Salviu-Godman Coll. 



%). 



e. 2 ad. St. Brazil. Purchased. 

 /. c? ad. sk. Barra do Eio Negro, Brazil, Sclater Coll. 



Aug. 1833 (/. Natterer). 

 9,h. c? $ ad. sk. Eupuuuui Eiver, British Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guiaua, April-July {^H. 

 Whiteli/). 



5. Chloronerpes erythropsis. 



Picus icterocephalus, var. (nmi Inch Oni. i. p. 241), Lath. Ltd. Orn. 



Suppl. p. xxxi (1801 ). 

 Picus ervthropis, Vieil/. N. Did. d'Hisf. Nat. xxvi. p. 98(1818); id. 



^ Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1320 (1823). 

 Picus icterocephalus {non Lath.) (^ , S^nx, Av. Bras. p. 62, pi. liv. 



fig. 1, = ? (1824). 

 Picus erythrops, Tfaql. St/st. Av. Picus, sp. 53 (1827) ; Nemvied, 



Beiti: Nature/. Bras. iv. p. 427 (1832). 

 Chloronerpes erythrops, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 443 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 116 (1850) ; Reichenb. Scans. Picina-, p. 352, 



no. 806, pi. dcxxiii. figs. 4152-53, S 6 (1854) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1857, 



p. 268. 

 Chrysopicus erythropsis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zggod. p. 9, no. 149 



(1854). 

 Chloropicus erythropsis, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 143, pi. Ixxxvii. figs. 1- 



2, d 2 (1862). 

 Chloronerpes erythropsis, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 338, no. 2022 (1862); 



id. ^ Su/v. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 594 ; Grai/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 



p. 106 (1868) ; id. Hcnd-l. B. ii. p. 198, no. 8780 (1870); Sclat. 



6; Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 99 (1873) ; Salt). Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 395, no. 1933 (1882). 

 Craugasus erythropes, Cab. i^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 158 (1863). 

 Picus erythropes, Sundev. Consp. Av., Picin. p. 12 (1866). 

 Chloronerpes erythropes, Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 244 (1870). 



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

 coverts, outer webs of the secondaries and inner webs of the inner- 

 most golden olive, the outer webs of the primaries brown margined 

 with olive at the base ; inner webs of quills rufous at the base, 

 brownish black on the apical portion, the latter colour occupying 

 the greater part of the outer primaries and diminishing in extent 

 upon each inner feather until it only forms an apical spot : shafts 

 brown ; tail-feathers brownish black, margined with olive at the 

 base, shafts brown with black ti])s ; nasal plumes dark brown ; 

 forehead, crown, occiput and nape, malar region and immediately 



