5. CHLORONEEPES. 77 



inner feather ; shafts brown ; tail-feathers brownish black, mar- 

 gined at the base with golden-olive, shafts brown with black tips ; 

 nasal plumes black ; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, and malar stripe 

 crimson ; sides of the face and neck golden olive, with a golden-yellow 

 stripe from the base of the upper mandible crossing the face and 

 running down the side of the neck ; hind neck golden olive ; chin 

 and throat yellowish white ; fore neck, chest, and breast olive, with 

 varied transverse spots of yellowish white, these parts in old birds 

 being distinctly barred ; under surface of the body and under tail- 

 coverts j'ellowish white, narrowly barred with blackish olive ; axil- 

 laries and edge of the wing yellow, barred with blackish olive, the 

 inner lining of the wing rufous buff. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 0-9, wing 4-65, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-75 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0"62, outer posterior 0*62, inner anterior O'o, inner 

 posterior 0'28. 



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

 and crown golden olive, also in wanting the red malar stripe, this 

 region being golden olive like the top of the head. Total length 

 7"5 inches, culmen 0'87, wing -t'S, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-67. 



Immature. Differ from the adult of their respective sexes in having 

 the chest-feathers longitudinally centred with yellowish white and 

 a subterminal olive-black band. 



Hah. South MattoGrosso, Brazil, and north into Eastern Ecuador 

 and New Granada. 



a. r? ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



b,c. c? 2 imm. ; Saravacu, Ecuador (C'.5^<cZ;/e2/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 

 e,f. c? 2 ad.sk. Engenho-do-Gama, Brazil, July, Sclater Coll. 

 Aug. {J. Nattever). 



7. Chloronerpes flavigula. 



Le Petit Pic a gorge jaune, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. p. 379, ^ (1783). 



Pic a gorge jauue de Cayenne, Dauhent. PI. Enl. 78-t, cj. 



Picus flavigula, Bodd. 'Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49, no. 784, S (1783); 



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

 Picus chlorocephalus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 4-32 (1788) ; Less. Traite, 



i. p. 229 (1831) ; Cab. in Schomb. Pels. Gidan. iii. p. 716 (1848). 

 Picus icterocephalus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 241 (1790); Steph. Gen. 



Zool. ix. p. 191, pi. xxsv. (1815) ; Vieill. K. Diet. (FHist. Nat. 



xxvi. p. 86 (1818) ; id. ^- Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1314 (1823) ; 



Spix, Av. Bras. p. 62, pi. liv. fig. 2, $ ( 1824) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. 



Picus, sp. 54 (1827) ; Drap. Did. Class, xiii. p. 499 (1828). 

 Chloronerpes icterocephalus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 443 (1846); Reichenb. 



Sca7is. Picina, p. 351, no. 805, pi. dcxxiii. figs. 4154^55, J $ 



(1854). 

 Chloronerpes flavigula. Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 22 (1849) ; Sclat. 



8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 587-594 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mas. 



p. 105 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 198, no. 8778 (1870) ; Peh. 



Oi-n. Bras. p. 244 (1870) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 395, no. 1934 



(1882) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 42. 



