354 piciD^. 



faint narrow yellow bars, the iipper tail-coverts rather duller in 

 colour aud having transverse spots of yellow ; wing-covcrts olive, 

 with transverse yellowish-white spots ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish brown ; primaries dusky brown, the outer webs 

 spotted with dull white and margined with golden olive at the base, 

 the inner webs having large marginal spots of pure white ; outer webs 

 of the secondaries golden olive with dull yellow transverse spots, the 

 inner webs dusky brown with marginal white spots ; shafts brown ; 

 tail blackish brown, the six central feathers slightly margined with 

 olive at the base, but otherwise uniform, the lateral feathers nar- 

 rowly barred across with brownish white, shafts black with brown 

 bases ; forehead umber-brown with a few minute dull white spots ; 

 crown, occiput, and nape deep scarlet, the bases of the feathers 

 dusky grey ; lores, a stripe above the eye, and another under the 

 ear-coverts dull white ; ear-coverts umber-brown ; side of the neck 

 golden, rather whiter near the ear-coverts, barred with dusky olive ; 

 from the chin to the under tail-coverts, both inclusive, olive-dusky 

 (slightly glossed with golden on the chest), narrowly barred with 

 dull white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, transversely 

 spotted and barred with blackish olive. Total length 5"7 inches, 

 culmen 0-8, wing 3-2.5, tail 1-8, tarsus 0'65 ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0"5, outer posterior 0'6, inner anterior 0-38, inner 

 posterior 0-22. 



The younger male has the red on the head of a paler scarlet ; 

 the golden olive of the back and wings brighter : the back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts more tinged with red and with partly exposed 

 transverse markings of dull white ; the spots on the wing-coverts 

 are also larger, and the tail-feathers are more distinctly spotted and 

 barred. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the head, the crown and occiput being dusky brown, inclining to 

 rusty brown at the base of the forehead, the whole being minutely 

 spotted with dingy white. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-7, 

 wing 3"15, tail 1"75, tarsus 0-67. 



Bah. Eastern Brazil (Bahia and Pernambuco). 



a. 5 ad. sk. Pernambuco, Brazil {W. A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Forhes). 



b. c? ad. sk. Pernambuco. Sclater Coll. 



c. (5 ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil {Dr. Tfuchcrer). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



d. (S ad. .sk. Babia. Sclater Coll. 



14. Dendrobates frontalis. 



Campias frontalis, Cah. J.f. 0. 188.3, p. 110. 



Cbloronerpes frontalis, Sclat. ^- Huds. Ary. Orn. ii. p. 20 (1889). 



Adult female. Back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts golden 

 olive spotted with yellow ; wing-coverts olive, with yellowish-white 

 sagittate spots ; quills brownish black, the outer webs of the second- 

 aries and the external basal margin of the primaries golden olive ; 

 outer webs of the primaries spotted with dull huffy white, those of 



