158 piorDvT:. 



Ceuturus rubrifrons, G'/y///, Gen. B. ii. p. 442 (184G). 



Melanerpes rubi-itVons, Bp. Vwisp. Gen. Av. i. p. IIO, (J (1850) ; Scl. 



Cat. Amor. B. p. 341, no. 20:10 (18G2); Gn/i/, List Picid. Brit. 



Mtis.y,. 118(180^); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 201, no. 8824 (1870); 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 247, c? (1870) ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl.Av. Neotr. 



p. 100 (1873) ; E. L. Lai/ard, Ibis, 1873, p. 391 ; Salv. op. cit. 1886, 



p. 59. 

 Phvmatoblephanis nibrifrons, Rcichcnh. Scans. Picince, p. 380, no. 1^78, 



pi. dcxli. fio-s. 4278 juv., 4279 c? ad. (1854). 

 Tripsurus riibvifrons, Bj>. ('onsp. Volncr. Zyqod. p. 10, uo. 210 



Melampicus rubrifrons, Malh. Pii:id(e, ii. p. 106, pi. xcviii. figs. 1, 2, 



c^ ? ad. (1862). 

 Melampicus melanocepbalus, Malh. Picida, ii. p. 195 (1862). 

 Melanerpes melanocephalus, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 247(1870), 5- 



Adult male. Differs from M. criientutus in wanting tho super- 

 ciliary stripe and the yellow nuchal band, and also in having the 

 red patch on the crown smaller. Total length 7"3 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 4*35, tail 2*3, tarsus 0"8 ; toes (without claws) — outer ante- 

 rior 0'63, outer posterior 0'66, inner anterior 0-5, inner poste- 

 rior 0-32. 



Adult female. Wants the red on the top of the head, but is in 

 other respects similar to the adult male. Total length 7"3 inches, 

 culmen 0-95, wing 4-05, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-7. 



Young ( d"? )• Has the red more spread over the crown and of a 

 less brilliant crimson than in the adult male ; the jiluraage (generally) 

 more dusky or sooty brown ; the feathers of the back and chest only 

 slightly glossed with blue-black ; underparts below the breast dull 

 white (only slightly rufescent), with dusky bars ; tho middle of the 

 lower breast and the abdomen orange-red. 



Occasionally specimens both of adult and young are found which 

 have a short white stripe above the posterior part of the eye. 



Hah. Guiana, and extending north into Trinidad ; Northern 

 Brazil east to Para. 



Barra, Rio Negro, Jan. {A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



R. Wallace). 



Para, Lower Amazons, Jan. Tweeddale Coll. 



(E. L. Layard). 



Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Cayenne. Selater Coll. 



Maroni River, Surinam Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Kappler). 



Guiana {Broicn). Selater Coll. 



River Apapurow, British Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guiana, Jan. (H. Whitely). 



Camacusa, March (//. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Merum(5 Mts., July (//. W.) Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Bartica Grove, Oct. {H. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



