15. DENDROCOPUS. 259 



22. Dendrocopus mixtus. 



L'Epeiclie ou Pic varie de la Encenada, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. 



p. 409 (1783). 

 Pic male de la Encenada, Dcmhent. PL Enl. 748. tig. 1. 

 Picus mixta?, Bodd. Tahl. PL EnL p. 47 (1783) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 



AjJi). p. xxi (1849) ; Sclaf. Cat. Amer. B. p. 334, no. 1996 (1862) ; 



Sundev. Consp. Av. Piciji. ]). 20 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



Mks. p. 48 (1868); Sclat.f Sale. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 138, 143; 



Hudson, op. cit. 1870, p. 158 ; Gray, Hand-L B. ii. p. 185, no. 



8608 (1870) ; Pch.Orn. Bras. p. 443 (1870) ; Mat. ^-Salv. NomencL 



Av. Neotr. p. 99 (1873) ; Durnf. Ibis, 1878, p. 62 ; White, P. Z. S. 



1882, p. 617, 1883, p. 40 ; Barrows, Auh, 1884, p. 25 ; Withiny- 



ton, Ibis, 1888, p. 467 ; Sclat. Sf Huds. Ary. Orn. ii. p. 19 (1889). 

 Picus bicolor, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 438 (1788) ; Bp. Consp. Gen.Av. 



i. p. 139 (1850) ; Beichenb. Scans. Picina>, p. 372, no. 860, pi. 



dcxxxvii. fig. 4241, S (1854) ; Malh. Picid(e, i. p. 1-37, pi. xxxiv. 



figs. 1-.3, cJ ? ad., S jiiv. (1861). 

 Picus vaiiegatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 233 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 



ix. p. 193 (1815) ; Bonn. S,- VieilL Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1318 (1823) ; 



Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 225 (1856). 

 Caiiaintero chorreado, Axara, Apunt. ii. p. 324, no. 259 (1805). 

 Picus maculatus, VieiU. N. Diet. (VHist. Nat. xxvi. p. 91 (1818) ; 



id. Sf Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1317 (1823) ; WayL Syst. Av. Picus, 



sp. 58 (1827). 

 Chloronerpes maculatus, Hartl. Lid. Azara, p. 17, no. 259 (1847) ; 



Beichenb. Scans. Picitice, p. 355, no. 816 (1854). 

 Dyctiopicus bicolor, Bj>. Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. p. 8, no. 29 (1854). 

 Dictyopipo mixta, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 76 (1863). 

 Deudrobates lignarius {non Moli^m), Burm. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 634. 



Adult male, llesembles D. lignarius, but differs in having the top 

 of the head browner and entirely, as well as more broadly, striped 

 with white ; the red on the occiput confined to the sides ; the car- 

 covei'ts browner and with less black behind, the malar region spotted 

 with black, and behind it a broken stripe of black ; the upper parts 

 f'ulvescent and the transverse light markings broader ; the central 

 tail-feathers crossed by seven black bars : shafts of tail-feathers 

 brown ; chin and throat fulvescent white spotted with black ; 

 under surface of the body strongly fulvescent and covered with 

 drop-like spots of black ; the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 also spotted. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen O'S, wing 3'5, tail 2, 

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

 terior 0-52, inner anterior 0'3;3, inner posterior 0'25. 



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

 occiput ; the feathers of the forehead and crown brown, with paler 

 tips, those of the forehead having buffy-white shaft-lines, the occiput 

 and nape being brownish black. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 

 0'7, wing 3"3, tail 1*9, tarsus 0"G5. 



Hah. Southern Brazil and Uruguay, south to Monte Video ; 

 Paraguay and the Argentine Eepublic, south to Buenos Ayres, and 

 in Chili. 



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