23. DENDKOIiATES. 355 



the secondaries spotted with yellow, the inner webs of the quills 

 having large marginal spots of white ; shafts very dark brown ; tail 

 blackish brown, the central feathers margined with olive at the base, 

 the central pair having marginal spots of pale brown on the basal 

 half, the remaining feathers narrowly barred with buffy brown ; 

 shafts black in the middle feathers, brown in the lateral ones ; nasal 

 plumes brown ; forehead, crown, and occiput dusky brown, spotted 

 with dull white ; the nape and hind neck golden olive spotted with 

 dull yellow ; lores, a stripe above the eye, and one under the ear- 

 coverts white, transversely spotted with black posteriorly, the ear- 

 coverts brown, striped with paler brown ; malar region dusky, spotted 

 with white ; chin and upper throat white, with a few dusk}- spots ; 

 side of the neck, fore neck, and the entire underparts and under tail- 

 coverts olive-dusky, narrowly barred with dull white ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the axillaries yellower, the whole being barred with 

 olive-dusky: "iris brown" (Schuh). Total length 6-3 inches, 

 culmen U-S5, wing 3-65, tail 2-18, tarsus U'7 ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0'48, outer posterior 0*56, inner anterior 0'4, 

 inner posterior 0-27. 



Adult male. Differs from the adult female in having the forehead 

 brown, spotted with brownish white ; the crown and occiput dull 

 crimson, the bases of the feathers being duskj- black, the nape of the 

 same olive as the hind neck, but slightly tinged with red, and instead 

 of being spotted both of these are striped with dull yellow. Total 

 length 6'5 inches, culmen O'S, wing 3'7, tail 2*2, tarsus 0'66. 



Hab. Tucuman. 



a, b. (5 2 ad. sk. Tucuman, Arg. Kep., Julv iScIater Coll. 



c. (5 ad. sk. Tucuman (Schulz). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



15. Dendrobates agilis. 



Campias agilis, Cab. t^- Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. p. 147 (1863). 

 Picus agilis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 40 (1S(J6). 

 Chloronerpes agilis, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 110 (1868) ; id. 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, uo. 8799 (1870). 



Adult female. Back, rump, scapulars, and wing-eoverts golden 

 olive, the rump barred, the remainder having stripe-like spots of 

 yellow, the spots on the median coverts partly surrounded with red ; 

 upper tail- coverts barred blackish olive and golden olive, with red- 

 dish tips, and having yellow shaft-stripes ; quills dusky brown, the 

 outer webs of the secondaries and those of the inner primaries on 

 more or less of their basal margin golden olive spotted with yellow, 

 the apical portion of the outer webs of the primaries spotted with 

 fulvescent white ; inner ^. ebs of the quills spotted with white, and 

 the shafts black ; tail blackish brown, barred with brownish buff, 

 shafts black ; nasal plumes bviiwn : the forehead, crown, and occiput 

 also brown and spotted with dull white ; nape and hind neck like 

 the back, with longitudinal spots of yellow ; lores and face yellowish 



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