23. UENDROBATES. 349 



tail-coverts, scapulars, wing-coverts, and the margins of the outer 

 webs of the secondaries vermilion-red; quills brown, the inner 

 webs spotted with white, the outer webs of the primaries dingy 

 yellowish with one or two whitish spots ; shafts brownish black ; 

 tail brown, the lateral feathers having bar-like spots of brownish 

 white on both webs ; shafts brown with black tips ; nasal plumes, 

 forehead, and face umber-brown, the forehead spotted, the ear- 

 coverts streaked with pale huffy brown ; malar region and chin 

 dusky brown, transversely varied with dull buify white ; side of the 

 neck, throat, and fore neck, the whole under surface of the body, and 

 under tail-coverts dusky olive-brown, very narrowly barred with 

 dull white ; under wing-coverts creamy white, barred with dusky 

 brown. Total length 5"3 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 2*9, tail 1*55, 

 tarsus 0*65 ; toes (without claws)- — outer anterior 0-42, outer poste- 

 rior U'5, inner anterior O-'So, inner posterior 0"22. 



Adult female. Has the top of the head, occiput, and nape brown 

 tinged with olive, the forehead and crown having pale buffy-brown 

 spots. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-9, tail 1-7, 

 tarsus 0*6o. 



Hah. Guiana and Venezuela, 



(I, &. J 5 ad. sk. Venezuela. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Guiana. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



8. Dendrobates kirtlandi. 



Mesopicus kirtlandi, Malh. Picidee, ii. p. 54, pi. Iviii. fig. 1, S (18G2). 

 Campias kirtlandi, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Heiu.iv. p. 150 (1863). 

 Picus kirtlandi, Sundev. Co7isp. Av. Picin. p. 39 (1866). 

 Chloronerpes kivtlandii, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 109 (1868) ; 

 id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8797 (1870). 



Female. Entire upper parts, wing-coverts, outer webs of secon- 

 daries, and those of the primaries at the base golden-olive, the 

 back almost uniform, with only a few nearly obsolete stripes of 

 yellow ; the rump spotted and the tail-coverts narrowly barred with 

 yellow ; outer webs of primaries spotted with dingy white, the 

 ground-colour of the apical portion being brown ; inner webs of quills 

 spotted with white ; shafts brownish black ; tail brownish black, 

 the four central feathers with almost obsolete buffy-brown spots at 

 the base, the remaining feathers barred with huffy brown ; shafts 

 black ; forehead, crown, and occiput olivaceous brown, the two 

 latter spotted with yellowish brown ; nape olive, with dull yellow 

 spots ; sides of the face and neck brownish or grejdsh white, the 

 ear-coverts dusky, the malar region and side of the neck barred 

 with dusky black ; from the chin to the under tail-coverts, both 

 inclusive, dull white, the chest washed with rufous, the whole 

 being barred with black : under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 yellow, the former transversely spotted and otherwise varied with 

 olive-black, the latter having only one or two dusky olive spots. 



