12. MELANERPES. 161 



n,h. d' 5 ad. sk. Naranio, Magdalena valley, Selater Coll 

 U.S. Columbia (C. Jr. 

 Tl ijatt). 



c, (I. S $ ad. sk. Naranjo (C. W. Wyalt). Salvin-Godmau Coll 



e,f- 6 2 ad. sk. Bogota. Selater Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



//. $ ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/', i- 6 $ ad. sk. Remedios, Antioquia (T. K. Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 Salmoyi). 



11. Melanerpes flavifrons. 



Carpintero vientre roxo, Azara, Apunt. Hist. Nat. Pd.rar. Parur/. ii 



p. 316, no. cclv. (180.5). 

 Picus flavifrons, Vieill. N. Diet. xxvi. p. 75, S 2 (1818) ; Spix, Av. 

 Bras. i. p. GO, pi. lii. tigs. 1 ?, 2c? (1824) ; Wngl. Syst. Av. Picus, 

 sp. 63 (1827) ; Sumlev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 50 (1866). 

 Picus rubriventris, Vieill. N. Diet. xxvi. p. 103 S (1818) ; id. ^ 

 Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1324 (1823), S; Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pt. 2, 

 p. 8, pi. xxvii., S (1825) ; Less. Traite, i. p. 224 (1831); id. Compl. 

 Buff. ix. p. 321 (18.37). 

 Picus coi-onatus, Lieht. Verz. Douhl. p. 10, c? 5 (1823) ; Valenc. 

 Diet. Se. Nat. xl. p. 173, J (182(;); Dmp. Diet. Class, xiii. p.497,c? 

 (1828) ; Max. Beit: Nat. Bras. iv. 1_, p. 419 (1832). 

 Picus rufiventris, Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 507, S (1828). 

 Picus ervthrogaster, Beekl. N. Mdm. Soc. Nat. Mo.sc. i. p. 377, 



pi. xxii., c? U829). 

 Tripsurus flavifrons, S^vains. Classif. B. ii. p. 311 (1837); Bp. Consp. 

 Valuer. Zijgod. p. 10, no. 211 (1854) ; Gray, List Gen. B. 1855, 

 p. 93. 

 Ceuturus flavifrons, &';•«?/, Gen. B. ii. p. 442 (1846). 

 Centuriis coronatus, Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 16 (1847). 

 Melampicos flavifrons, 3Ial/i. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848- 



49, p. 364. 

 Melanerpes flavifrons, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 116 (1850); Scl. 

 Cat. Amer. B. p. 341, no. 20.38 (1862); Gray, List Picid. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 118 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 201, no. 8823 (1870) ; 

 Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 248 (1870) ; Scl. <§• Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 

 p. 100 (1873) ; Salv. Cat. Striekl. Coll. p. 398, no. 1946 (1882) ; 

 Berl. S)- Jher. in Madar. Zeitseh. (/esamm. Orn. 1885, p. 159. 

 Tripsvu'us coronatus, Lieht. Nomencl. Av. p. 76 (1854) ; Burm. Syst. 



Ueb. ii. p. 2.39 (1856). 

 Phyniatoblepharus flavifrons, Reichenh. Scans. Picinee, p. 380, no. 879, 



pi. dcxliii. figs. 4291^92, 2 <S ad. (1854). 

 Melampicus flavifrons, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 207, pi. c. figs. 2, 3 (5 ad., 

 4 $ ad. (1862). 



Adult male. Upper and middle back blue-black centred with 

 numerous white stripes ; the lower hack, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts white ; scapulars, wing-coverts, and quills black, more or 

 less glossed with blue, the inner webs of the quills spotted with 

 white, the shafts being black ; tail black, the inner webs ot the 

 central pair of feathers having occasionally one or two transverse 

 spots of white; shafts black; forehead, chin, throat, and malar 

 region golden yellow ; nasal plumes, lores, orbital region, and a 



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