76 riciD.B. 



behind it, chin and throat crimson : sides of the face and upper 

 neck golden yellow ; lower side of the neck olive, barred with dull 

 yellowish white ; from the fore neck to the under tail-coverts, both 

 inclusive, yellowish white, barred with olive-black ; axillarics and 

 edge of the wing yellowish white, barred with olive-black, the inner 

 wing-lining rufous bufl\ Total length 7o inches, culmen 0-85, 

 wing 4-3, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-75 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 

 0-48, outer posterior 0-48, inner anterior 0-42, inner posterior 0-25. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the forehead 

 and fore part of the crown dull golden yellow, and the red on the 

 malar region, chin, and throat less intense. Total length 7"3 inches, 

 culmen 0-S2, wing 4-53, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-68. 



Hah. Eastern and Southern Brazil. Dr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1857, 

 p. 268) records a specimen from Ega, Upper Amazons (Bates). If 

 this be a correct identification, the species would appear to range 

 right through Western Erazil also. 



6. Chloronerpes leucolaemtis. 



Picas leucoliemus, Malh. Mem. Soc. Boy. Liege, 1845, p. 68 ; Sundev. 



Consp. Av., Picin. p. 13 (1866). 

 Chloropicos isidori, Malh. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 18o0, p. 154. 

 Chrvsopicus leucoliemus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 9, no. 143 



(1854). 

 Chrvsopicus isidori, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 9, no. 153 (1854). 

 Chloropicus leucolsemus, Malh. Picidai, ii. p. 145, pi. Ixxxv. figs. 3, 4, 



6 2 (1862). 

 Craugasus leucolfemus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 160 (1368). 

 Chloronerpes leucolfemus, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 105 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8784 (1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 244 



(1870) ; Sclat. 8r Salv. Xomencl Av. Keotr. p. 100 (1873) ; Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1874, p. 546 ; id. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 85 (1886). 



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

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

 of the innermost, also the basal margin of the outer webs of the 

 primaries, golden-olive, the remaining portion of the latter webs being 

 brown with the base rufous ; inner webs of the quills rufous with 

 the apical portion blackish brown, the latter colour occupying quite 

 the half of the outer primaries and diminishing in extent upon each 



