I 



12. MKLANEEPES. 175 



Keoti: p. 100 (1878) ; Salv. 8f Godm. Ibis, 187y, p. 205; iid. op. 



cit. 1880, p. 174 ■,JRidr/w. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1881, p. 101. 

 Centurus rubrirentiis [non Swains.), Lairr.Ann. Lye. N. Yorh,\i%\, 



p. 299. 

 Zebrapiciis ti-ieolor (pt.), Malh. Ficidcc, ii. p. 247, pi. cvi. fifrs. 1, 2, 



S 2 ad. (18H2). 

 Centurus carolinus, var. tricolor, B., B., ^- li. Hid. N. Amer. B. ii. 



p. 654 (1874;. 



Adult male. Small in size. Back, scapulars, and wing-covcrts 

 black, barred with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 white ; quills black, spotted with white upon both webs, except 

 on the apical half or more of the primaries ; shafts brownish black ; 

 tail black, the central pair of feathers barred on the inner web and 

 spotted on the basal portion of the outer web with white, the outer 

 large feather spotted on the margin of the outer web and the tip of 

 the inner web ; shafts black ; forehead drabby white, the base and 

 the nasal plumes tinged with yellow ; the centre of the crown crim- 

 son, the occiput fulvescent brown washed with red, and the nape 

 red ; hind neck like the back ; outer edge of crown, face, neck, and 

 under surface of the body pale drab, more or less fulvescent, the chin 

 whiter and the malar region slightly yellow, the abdomen orange- 

 red, the thighs and the under tail-coverts having V-shaped markings 

 of black : under wing-coverts white, with a few dusky bars, the 

 axillaries dingy fulvescent white. Total length G'S inches, cilmen 1, 

 wing 4-2, tail 2, tarsus 0'73 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 

 0-65, outer posterior 0-65, inner anterior 0-45, inner posterior 0*3. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the crimson 

 crown, the sinciput being pale bufFy brown grading into ashy brown 

 on the hinder crown and occiput, the latter having a yellow tinge; 

 the nuchal feathers red as in the male. Total length 6*5 inches, 

 culmen 0'85, wing 4-05, tail 1-85, tarsus 0-7. 



Bogota specimens are very pale in colour and strongly fulvescent 

 below. 



Hah. U.S. Colombia and east into Venezuela, being replaced in 

 the Orinoco district by M. terricolor. 



a. Juv. sk. Central America. Gould Coll. 



b. Juv. sk. Central America. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. d. c? $ ad. sk. Veragua {U. Arce). Sclater Coll. 



e,f. S 2 f"i- sk. Veragua (H. Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ff,h. cj 2 imm. ; Panarua. Tweeddale Coll. 



i. 5 ad. sk. 



k, I. (5 2 ad. sk. Panama (J. McLeannan). Sclater Coll. 



m,n. J 2 ad.sk. Vwa3.m.& (J. McLeannan). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



o,p. (S ad.sk. Panama. G. Barclay, Esq. [P.]. 



q. 2 ad. sk. Paraiso Station, Panama {A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hur/hes). 



r, s. S ad. ; <. 2 New Grauada. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. 



M, V. c? 2 ad. sk. New Granada. Purchased. 



w, X. c? 2 ^^- sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



