IJO PICID^. 



(IK AYitli no black stripe behind the 

 mahiv refrion ; chest not orange ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts 

 bright yellow. 

 d'. Rump and thighs barred. 



a". AVith red malar stripe .... icteromelas (5 ad., p. 114. 

 6°. Malar region striped black 



and white icteromelas 5 ad., p. 114. 



e'. Rump uniform or spotted, not 

 barred ; thighs spotted, 

 c'". With red malar stripe .... clinjsomelas (S ad., p. 115. 

 d'^. Malar region striped black 



and white chrysomelas 5 ad., p. 115. 



b". Shafts of all the tail-feathers yellow, 



the central ones brown at the tip . . mariec cJ ad., p. 115. 

 h' Chin and throat .spotted, the white spots 

 being one ou each web, sometimes large 

 and reducing the black in the middle 

 of the feather to a stripe, but the white 

 never forming an even margin to the 

 feather. 

 c" . Smaller : length 7 inches, wing 3-0- 

 4 ; the spots on the chin and throat 

 .small and rounded, the feathers not 

 having a striped appearance. 



c'". With red malar stripe imncfujula J ad., p. 116. 



d"\ Malar region black, minutely spot- 

 ted with white pimctir/uln 2 ad., p. 117. 



e'". Malar region uniform black inmctigula $ juv., p. 117. 



d". Larger : length 8 inches, wing 4'.3 ; 

 the spots OD the chin and throat, 

 in the adult, large and narrowing the 

 black in the middle of the feather to 

 a stripe, roimded in the j'oung. 



/'". With red malar stripe guttatus J ad., p. 118. 



(/'". Malar region striped black and 



white (juttatus $ ad., p. 118. 



K" . Malar stripe uniform black yxittatus juv., p. 118. 



B. Underparts barred ; chin and throat uni- 

 form black, with red malar stripe atricollis S 'id., p. 119. 



1. Chrysoptilus melanocMorus. 



Picus melanochloros, Gm. Syst. Nnt. i. p. 427, J (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Oni. i. p. 239 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 76 



(1818) ; id. ^- Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1308 (1823) ; Wagl. Syst. 



^z;. Picus, sp. 42 (1827), pt.; Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 499 (1828); 



Nemcied, Beitr. Nature/. Brets. iv. p. 423 (1832). 

 Carpintero verdinegro, Azara, Apunt. Hist. Nat. Pdxar. Parag. ii. 



p. 306, no. 252 (1805). 

 Picus melanochlorus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 10 (1823) ; Sundev. 



Consp.Av. Piein. p. 75 (1866). 

 Picus chiorozostus, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 513, $ . 

 Picus melanochloris, Cuv. Rbgne Anini. i. p. 451 (1829). 

 Chrysoptilus melanochlorus, Hartl. Lid. Azara, p. 16, no. 252 (1847) ; 



