12. MEIANKRPES. 157 



file body, flanks, thighs, and nnder tail-coverts barred with white 

 more or less tinged with yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white barred with black. Total length 7'3 inches, culmen 1'1.5, 

 wing 4-55, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-85 ; toes (without claws) — outer ante- 

 rior 0"65, outer posterior 0*7, inner anterior 0-45, inner posterior 

 0-35. 



Adult female. Has no red on the crown, but otherwise resembles 

 the adult male. Total length 7"3 inches, culmen 0"98, wing 4-55, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus 0-75. 



Young, prohahly male. Resembles, general]}', the adult male, but 

 differs in having the black of the plumage less glossed with blue ; 

 the red patch upon the crown smaller ancl of a duller crimson, the 

 anterior part of the malar region having a dull white spot ; the 

 sides of the body. Hanks, and thighs scarcely tinged with yellow, 

 and the under tail- coverts varied with squamate markings of black 

 and white, instead of being evenly barred ; the margin of the outer 

 webs of the secondaries spotted on the apical half with dull white. 



In some examples (apparently belonging to this species) said to 

 be from Guiana, the white or yellowish-white stripe bordering the 

 forehead and crown is wanting, but exists on the side of the occiput, 

 although it is not constant. In this plumage the species differs onlj' 

 from M. ruhrifrons in possessing the yellow nuchal band. 



Ifah. New Granada ; Venezuela and British Guiana ; northern 

 parr of Brazil into Pernambuco ; the Amazonian region ; Ecuador ; 

 Northern, Eastern, and Central Peru ; Bolivia, and into Matto 

 Grosso. 



«, &. c? 5 ^"^- sk. Bogota, Colombia. rttrcbased. 



c, d. cJ $ ad. sk. Bogotd. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



e, f. cj' ad. ; ff, Bogota. Tweeddale Coll. 



h, i. 2 ad. sk, 



A:, /. cT 5 ^d. sk. Sarnyacu, Ecuador (C. Buckley), Salviu-Godnian Coll, 



m. 5 ad. sk. E. Peru ( W. Nation). Sclater Coll. 



n. (S ad. sk. Chyavetas, E. Peru, Aug. (E. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Bart/ett). 



0. c? ad. sk. Ucayali River, June (J". Hatix- Gould Coll. 



well). 



p, q. S f>d. sk. Simacu, Bolivia (G Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



r, s. ^ ad. sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Sept, Salvin-Godman Coll, 



(H. Smith). 



t. 2 ad. sk. Rio Negro. Tweeddale Coll. 



v,v. (S $ ad. sk. Rio Negro (A. R. Wallace). Sclater Coll, 



w. (S ad. sk. Pernambuco {Craven). Sclater Coll, 



7. Melanerpes rubrifi'ons. 



Le.'^ser Black Woodpecker, var. A, Lath. Gen, Sipu ii. p. 5G0, 2 



,(1782). 

 Picus ruhrifrons, Spix, Ai\ Brax. i, p. 61, pi, Iv. figs. 1 c?, 2$ (1824); 



ir«y/. Syst. Ai: Picus, sp. 67 (1827), cJ; id. Isis, 1829, p, 615, $ j 



Sunder, dmsp. Av. Picin. p. 60 (1866). 

 Picus liirundinaceus (non Gm.), Vulenc. Diet. Sc Nat, xl. p. 172 



(1826), c?; Wayl. Syst. Ar. Picus, sp, 64, 2 (1827). 



