350 riciD.E. 



Total length G-2 inches, culracn 0-83, wing 3-6, tail !•!), tarsus Q-iM : 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*4G, outer posterior U-5(j, 

 inner anterior 0"4, inner posterior 0'25. 



Adult male. Prom Malherbe's description of the male bird, it 

 differs from the female in having the feathers of the top of the 

 head and the occiput more or less red. The dimensions given equal 

 the following : — Total length 6-2G inches, bill from gape 0-78, 

 ■wing 3-82, tail 2-22. 



Hah. Erazil {MaVierhc), probably the extreme north, and 

 Surinam. 



a. 5 '"id. sk. Maroni Eiver, Surinam Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Kappler). 



9. Dendro^bates nigriceps. 



Picus nigriceps, Lafr. &,- d'Orl>. Toy. Amer. Mirid. iv. p. 380, 



pi. Ixv. tig. 2, 5 (1835-44) ; Sundev. Co)isp. Av. Picm. p. 40 



(1806). 

 Eleopicus nigriceps, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zyc/od. p. 10, no. 163 (1854). 

 Colaptes nigriceps, Heicheub. Scans. Picince, p. 417, no. 981, pi. dclxix. 



fig. 4436, 2 (1854). 

 Mesopicus nigriceps, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 68, pi. lix. figs. 1, 2, cJ 5 ad. 



(1862). 

 Chlorouerpes malherbii, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 338, no. 2016 (1862) ; 



id. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 99(1873); id. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 631 ; Berl. Sf Tacz. op. cit. 1884, p. 307 ; iid. op. cit. 1885, 



p. 106. 

 Cauipias malherbei, C'al/. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 155 (1863). 

 Chlorouerpes nigriceps, Gray, Li$t Picid. Brit. Mus. p. Ill (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 200, no. 8802 (1870). 



Adult male. Back and rump golden olive, the former having 

 dull red spots, the latter s])otted with yellow ; upper tail-coverts 

 dusky olive, barred and spotted with yellow ; scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 outer webs of secondaries and of primaries at their base olive ; 

 remaining portion of the quills brownish black, the inner webs 

 spotted with pure white ; the outer webs of the primaries with a 

 few dull huffy- white spots ; shafts dark brown ; tail brownish 

 black, the central feathers margined with golden olive at the base, 

 the lateral feathers narrowly barred with brownish buff; shafts 

 black ; nasal plumes brown ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape 

 vermilion-red ; a white superciliary stripe and another white stripe 

 below the ear-coverts, and between these an olive-brown auricular 

 patch or stripe ; remainder of the face white and the side of the 

 neck yellow, the whole transversely varied or barred with blackish 

 olive ; chin dull white, spotted with dusky olive ; throat and the 

 ■whole under surface of the body and under tail-coverts barred 

 yellowish white and blackish olive ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laiies yellowish -white with blackish bars : lower mandible more or 

 less white. Total length 6-8 inches, culmcn O'D, wing 4, tail 2-4, 



