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4. Dendrobates sanguinolentus. 



Chloronorpes sanguinolentus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1859, p. GO, pi. cli. ; 



Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 112 (18G8) ; id. llandX B. ii. 



p. 1^00, no. 880G (1870) ; Svlat. i!)- Sail). Nuiiieiwl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 91) (1873). 

 Mesopicus sanguinolentus, Malh. Picida, ii. p. 76, pi. xliii. bis. fig. 6, 



6 (18G2). 

 Pha;onerpes sanguinolentus, Cah. S,- Heine, Mus. Ilein. iv. p. 140 



(18G3). 

 Phseonerpes reiclienbaclii *, Cah. 4'- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 141 



(1863). 

 Picus sanguinolentus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 35 (1866). 

 Pious rubidust, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 35 (1866). 

 Chloioneipes reiclienbaclii. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mies. p. 112 (1868); 



id. Uand-l. B. ii. p. 200, no. 8805 (1870). 



Adult male. Resembles D. cahoti, but differs iu having the back, 

 scapulars, and hind neck conspicuously washed with blood-red, the 

 feathers of the rump, the upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, the 

 feathers of the lower side of the neck and of the chest, also the 

 under tail-coverts, margined or tipped with the same blood-red 

 colour. The present species also bears a strong resemblance to both 

 I), ulear/inus and D. famirjatus, but its dimensions are considerably 

 less, and in addition to the characters which separate it from 

 D. cahoti, it differs from D. olecir/imis in not having the anterior 

 half of face white, and from D. fumi(/ati(s in having olive-tinged 

 upper tail-coverts. Total length (! inches, culmen 0%S7, wing S'^S, 

 tail 1-72, tarsus 0*7 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"4S, 

 outer posterior 0*54, inner anterior 0-4, inner posterior 0'2S. 



Hub. Honduras (Omoa) ; Venezuela (Caraccas +). 



5. Dendrobates callonotus. 



Picus callonotus, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1840, p. 182, 2 ad. ; Lafr. Eev. 

 Zool. 1847, p. 77, S ; l^es Murs, Iconoyr. Orn. livr. 10, p. 4," pi. lix.. 



* I cannot see any specific difference between this and the present species. 

 The wide extent of country between the habitats of the two birds may at first 

 sight seem not to favour this view, but it is not more surprising than to find 

 Ficumniis olivacms from Bogota reappearing in Honduras, the intervening 

 country being tenanted by the yellow-crowned P. granadensis. Cabanis and 

 Heine's species may be only a very red-backed D. fumigatus, of which I have 

 seen an example from Medellin. 



+ 1 have already expressed my belief that this bird is no other than D. san- 

 guinolentus. Sundevall has been completely misled by the figure of the 

 latter species, and places it in a section separate from his P. ruhidus, on account 

 of the former having (according to the figure) the lateral tail-feathers barred 

 externally. The tail, on tlie contrary, is perfectly uniform, tluis correspond- 

 ing with Sundevall's P. riibidics, and there are none of the bar-like markings on 

 the outer webs of the quills, as represented in the figure. I have the type of 

 D. sunyiiinolcnfiis before me as I write this. 



J I give this as a habitat, presuming that Sundevall's P. rubidus is 

 identical with Chloroncrpes sanguinolentus of Sclater. 



