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with the nuchal feathers lemon-j'ellow, this colour forming a band ; 

 the abdomen also lemon-j'ellow, and the middle of the chest occa- 

 siouiilJy tinged with the same; an auricular stripe of black running 

 on to the hind neck which is brownish black like the back ; tail 

 nearly black, the six central feathers having their basal half white, 

 with one or two black bars near the black portion of the feathers, 

 the two outer large feathers on either side having their inner webs 

 white and almost entirely barred with black ; shafts corresponding 

 in colour with the surrounding webs ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries brownish black. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1*4, 

 wing 6-2, tail 3'7, tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 

 0'8, outer posterior 0-8, inner anterior 0-G5, inner posterior 0-43. 



TuiiHff male. Is almost identical with the fully adult of the same 

 sex, but is of a more sooty black above ; the yellow nuchal band is 

 nearly as briglit as in the old male, but the yellow of the abdomen 

 is very much less so. 



Adult female. Resembles the adult male, but wants the yellow 

 nuchal band, the nape being white like the rest of the head. Total 

 length 11 inches, culmen 1-4, wing G'To, tail 4, tarsus 1. 



Mab. Southern and Eastern Brazil, north to the Province of 

 Bahia; Bolivia ; Paraguay; Argentine llepublic, and south into Lower 

 Uruguay. 



a. 5 ad. sk. 



b, c. cJ ad. sk. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 



e, f, fj. (S ad. et 

 juv. ; h. 2 

 imm. sk. 



i. 2 ad. sk. 

 h. S ad. sk. 

 /. [ 2 ] ad. sk. 



Brazil. 



Biihia, Brazil (/);■. Wticherer). 

 Minas Geraes (Royers). 

 Cliapada, Matto Grosso, May 

 -Nov. [H. Smith). 



Boli\ia. 

 Bolivia. 

 Salta, Arg. Rep., June. 



3. Melanerpes formicivonis. 



Riocour Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Purchased. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 II. Durnford, 



[C.]. 



Picus formicivorus *, Strains. Phil. Mug. 1827, p. 4-39. 



Melanerpes formicivorus, Bp. P.Z.S. 1837, p. 109; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1856, pp. 14.3, 307, l8oS, p. 305, 1859, p. 367 : Moore, P.Z.S. 



1859, p. 60; Sclat. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 137 ; Sclat. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 341, no. 2035 (1862) ; Cab. J. f. 0. 1862, p. 332 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 177 ; Lain: Aiut. Li/c. A\ Hi^t. X. York; 1868, p. 131 ; 



Salr. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 213 ; id. S,- Sclat. Nomeiicl. At\ Xeotr. p. 100 



(1873); Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. 1876. p. 35; Boucard, 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 49 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 397, no. 1944 (1882) 



(pt.) ; Ridqw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 497 ; Zeled. op. cit. 



1885, p. Ill ; Bidf/u: Man. N. Amer. B. p. 291 (1887). 

 Melanerpes striatipectas, Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa Rica, p. 23, no. 491 



(1882). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts black, more or less 

 glossed with greenish blue ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; 



* Swaitison's type (now in the Cambridge Museum) is from Teniisealtipec, 

 Jlexifo: bv permission of Professor Newton I have had the opportunity of ex- 

 amining thi.s ^jjecimen. 



