7. CHRYSOPTILUS. 115 



2 ad. sk. Cuyaba, Brazil, Aug. {J. Natterer). Sclater Coll. 

 $ ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 {H. H. Smith). 



4. Chrysoptilus chrysomelas. 



Chrvsopicus chrysomelas, Math. Picidee, ii. p. 189, pi. Ixxxi.x. fio-s. 1, 



2; d 2 (1862). 

 Chrysoptilus chrysomelas, Cab. ^- Seine, Mus. Heiti. iv. p. 16.3 



(1863). 

 Picus flavilumbis, Sunder. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 74 (1866). 

 Chrysoptilus flavilumbis, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 92 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. ly.5, no. 8739 (1870) ; Sah. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 396, no. 1939 (1882). 



Adult male. Ver}- closely resembles C. icteromelas, but differs in 

 haying the rump uniform bright yellow, or sometimes spotted with 

 black, not barred ; the abdomen uniform, and the exposed black 

 markings on the thighs being heart-shaped or varied spots and not 

 black bars. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-25, wing o-Oo, tail 

 3*6, tarsus 0-9 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-82, outer 

 posterior 0*75, inner anterior O-oo, inner posterior O-'So. 



Adult female. AVants the red on the malar region, this being 

 greyish white striped with black. Total length 10 inches, culmen 

 1-18, wing 5-3, tail 3-75, tarsus 0-88. 



Toung female. Differs from the adult of the same sex in having 

 the plumage almost devoid of yellow, there being only a slight 

 tinge of this colour on the back and rump and also on the chest ; 

 the under surface of the body and the under wing-coverts are more 

 of a huffy white, the former having the faintest tinge of yellow ; the 

 shafts of the quills are white or nearly so ; the crest is of a washed- 

 out scarlet. 



Hab. East Brazil (Bahia, north to Pernambuco). 



o. Chrysoptilus mariae. 



Chrysoptilus maris, Hargitt, Ibis, 1889, p. 59. 



Adidt male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts olivaceous yellow 

 broadly barred with black ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow 

 with heart-shaped spots of black ; quills brownish black, the pri- 

 maries spotted with dull yellow on the outer webs, the inner webs 

 more or less margined and scalloped with white; the outer webs of 

 the secondaries barred with dull yellow, the inner webs having mar- 



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