7. cnKvsoPTir.us. 1 17 



forehead, and crown black, some of the feathers slightly tipped 

 with red : occiput, nope, and large malar stripe crimson ; lores and 

 side of the face white ; chin and throat black spotted with white, 

 the black grouiid great!}' predominating ; side of the neck, chest, and 

 breast olive, grading into yellow on the remaining uuderparts and 

 under tail-coverts, the whole (except the abdomen which is uniform) 

 being spotted with black, and some of the chest-featliers tipped with 

 red ; undor wing-coverts and axillaries dull golden buff. Total 

 length 6-y inches, culmen 0-93, wing 4-1, tail 2--i5, tarsus O-b'S ; 

 toes (witiiout claws) — outer anterior 0*7, outer posterior 0-7, inner 

 anterior U'O, inner posterior 0'3. 



Adult female. Differs Irom the adult male in wanting the red on 

 the malar region, this being black minutely spotted with white ; the 

 black feathers of the forehead and crown always devoid of red tips. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 39, tail 2;4, tarsus 0-82. 



The younger female has the malar region black, without white 

 spots. 



Hab. Cayenne, and west into Demerara and Triuidad. 



a, b. c? ad. st. Trinidad. Zoological Society. 



c. J ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



d. c5' ad. sk. Demerara. Purchased. 



e. c? ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



7. Chrysoptilus guttatiis. 



Picus guttatus, Sjji.r, Av. Bras. i. p. 01, pi. liii. fig. 1, S (1824). 

 Chrvsoptilus guttatus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 303 (18-37) : Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 440 (1846). 

 Chrysoptihis cayenneusis, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 122 (1850), pt. 

 Chrv^oplilus giittifer, Reichenb. Hcans. Picina, p. 420, no. 986 6 



(l8o4). 

 Chrvsoptilus punctigiila {tion Bodd.), Sclat. P. Z. S. 1S55, pp. 33, 



161 ; Beh. Orn. Bras. p. 248 (1870) ; Sclat. S,- Salt: Numencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 100 (1873), pt. 

 Chrvso))icus cavennensis {iwn Gni.), Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 179, pi. Ixxxvii. 



fig^4, 5, Jd,6, 2 (1862). 

 Chrysopicus guttifer (e.( Beichenb.), Malh. Pictdte, ii. p. 181 (1862). 

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



(1862), pt. ; Cav.-Tatjl. Ibis, 1864, p. 93 ; Sclat. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 197, 1873, p. 291. 

 Chrysoptilus f^peiosus* Sclat. MS. ; id. Cat. Atner. B. p. 310, 



no. 20;J0 (18(!2) ; id. P. Z. S. 1807, p. 979 ; Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 91 (1808) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 



(1873). 



* Malherbe gets the credit of having described C. specioswsin his Monograph. 

 All that he lias done is (alter giving u translation of Keichenbacli's characters 

 of liis ikr^/sopfihis (/iiftifcr) to ask if it be not the same as Solater's sjieciosus, of 

 which he gives a figure on plate Ixxxvii. The figure should be b, not 6, as 

 stated on the plate (see lest under C. guftifer, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 181). 



Malherbe, under the above heading, distinctly states that he considers 

 Selater's C. speciosus to be a variety of C. caynnensis of the Monograph. 



