1 16 picrn^. 



ginal white spots, the inner secondaries barred with dull yellow 

 across both webs ; shafts golden yellow : tail brownish black, the 

 central feathers at the base and the lateral ones along their whole 

 length barred with buffy white tinged with yellow ; shafts golden 

 yellow, those of the central feathers blackish brown at the tip ; 

 upper nasal plumes, forehead, and crown black ; occiput and nape 

 crimson ; lower nasal plumes and face golden white, with a broad 

 crimson malar stripe ; chin and throat pale yellow narrowly striated 

 with black ; side of the neck gieeuish yellow, the fore neck and the 

 entire under surface of the body bright yellow, tlie whole being 

 covered with rounded spots of black ; under tail-coverts yellow with 

 heart-shaped spots of brownish black ; under wing-coverts pale buff 

 washed witli yellow; axillaries bright yellow. Total length 8-5 

 inches, culmcn l-Oo, wing 4*5, tail 2*8, tarsus 0-9 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-67, outer posterior 0"62, inner anterior 

 0'47, inner posterior 0*3. 



Hab. North-east Peru (Chamicuros). 



6. Chrysoptilus punctigula. 



Le Petit Pic raye de Cavenue, JBuf. Ilist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 374 



(1783). 

 Pic rav4 de Cavenne, Daubent. PI. Enl. 613, $ (1788). 

 Picus puuctigula, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 37, no. 613. 

 Picus cayennensis, Gon. Syst. Nat. i. p. 428 (1788) ; Bunn. Th. Bras. 



ii. p. 243 (1856). 

 Picus cayaiiensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 2-39 (1790). 

 Picas guttulatus, Wat/l. Si/.'tt. Av. Picus, sp. 87 (1827). 

 Chrysoptilus cayennensis, Swahis. C/assif. B. ii. p. 308 (1837); Bp. 



Cons/). Gen. Ai\ i. p. 122 (1850), pt. : Reichenb. Scans. Pwince, 



p. 420, no. 968, pi. dclxxi. figs. 4442-43, d d ad. (1854) ; Bp. 



Consp. Vulucr. Zygod. p. 9, no. 138 (1854). 

 Chrysoptilus cayanensis, Gray, List Gen. 1840, p. 54. 

 CLrysoptikis punctigula, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 440 (1846) ; Cab. 8f 



Heine, Mus. llein. iv. p. 162 (1863) ; ft-rt.y. List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 91 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 195, no. 8731 (1870); 



Sclat. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873), pt. ; Sak. Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 397, no. 1940 (1882). 

 Chrysopicos cayennensis, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad, llefz, 1848- 



49, p. 354. 

 Chrysoptilus punctigulaiis, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 340, no. 2029 



_(f862),pt. 

 Picus punctigularis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 73 (1866). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts deep golden 

 olive narrowly barred with black, the rump more golden yellow and 

 spotted with black ; wing-coverts, both webs of inner secondaries, 

 and outer webs of all the other quills, except the ajjical portion of the 

 outer primaries, golden olive barred with black ; the inner webs 

 brownish black, notched or transversely spotted on the margin with 

 white or smoky white ; shafts golden yellow ; tail black, the lateral 

 feathers narrowly barred with buffy brown ; shafts of the two outer 

 large feathers yellow, those of the others brown ; nasal plumes, 



