\Q2 nciDiE. 



broad stripe behind the eye black ; crown, occiput, and nape crim- 

 son ; side of the neck and upper part and sides of the chest ashy 

 olive, yellower on the fore neck, the sides of the chest with varied 

 spots of black ; the middle of the lower chest, breast, and abdomen 

 crimson ; the remainder of the underparts fulvescent white barred 

 with black; under tail-coverts black, with bars and squamatc 

 markings of white, and having fulvescent white margins ; under 

 wing-coverts white, the axillaries yellowish, both being barred with 

 black : the edge of the wing black, with a few white spots. Total 

 length 8 inches, culmeu 1, wing 4-75, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-8 ;_ toes 

 (without claws)— outer anterior 0-72, outer posterior 0-72, inner 

 anterior 0-55, inner posterior 0-32. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the head, the crown and occiput being deep blue-black. Total 

 length 8 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 4-5, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-7. 



JIab. Southern Brazil, north into Minas Geraes and Goyaz, and 

 ranging into Paraguay. 

 a, b. c? ad. etjuv. ; Brazil. Tweeddale Coll. 



c, d. 5.ad. sk. own ii 



e. c? ad. sk. Brazil. Schxter Col 



f. d ad. sk. Brazil. Eiocour Coll. 

 r/-/*. c? 5 ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased 



1 k S2 ad. sk. Minas Geraes (H. Rogers). Salvm-Godman Col . 

 /.' S ad. sk. Rio Claro, Prov. Goyaz Salvm-Godman Coll. 



{Joyner). 

 VI. c? ad. sk. ISovo Fribourgo, S.E. Salvin-Gcdman Col). 



Brazil (J. Ymuh). 

 n. d ad. sk. San Paulo, S. Brazil {Joy- Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



ner). 

 o, p. d ad. ; q. $ Rio Grande do Sul. Tweeddale Coll. 



inim. sk. 

 r. Skel. 



12. Melanerpes cactorum. 



I'icus cactorum, La/r. §• d'Orb. Toy. Amer. Merid. iv. p. 378, pi. Ixii. 



p. 102, pi. XXV. tigs. 1, 2, c? $ (li561) ; Sd. Cat. Amcr. B. p 333, 

 no 1989 (18C2) ; Simdev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 32 (1860) ; Gray, 

 List I'icid. Brit. Mvs. p. 50 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 186, 

 no 8615 (1870) ; Scl. 8f Salv. Noviencl. Av. Neofr. p. 99 (18/3) ; 

 Lee, Ibis, 1873, p. 134 ; Scd. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 03 ; Salv. Ibis, 

 1880, p. 361 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 617 ; Barrons, Auk, 1884, 

 ]). 25 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 77 (1886) ; Scl. 8j- Iluds. Arg. Om. 

 ii. p. 19 ri889). ^ ^ __ 



Pious (Geciuus) cactorum, Cab. in Tt-ch. Faun. Pcrvan., u-ives, p. 2bl 

 (1845-46). 



Colaptes cactorum, Beichenb. Scans. Piciwe, p. 41/, no. .»/J, pi. 

 dclxix. figs. 44.33-34, 5 $ (1854). o^nc-n 



Trichopicus cactorum, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 8, no. oi (1l04J. 



