23. BENDEOBATES. 357 



tail-coverts darker brown, barred witli dull -white ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the edge of the wing and the axillaries pale olivaceous 

 brown, crossed by dull white bars or transverse spots. Total length 

 5-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-4.5, tail 1-85, tarsus 0-GS ; toes 

 (without claws)— outer anterior 0-5, outer posterior 0-57, inner 

 anterior 0-4, inner posterior 0-20. 



Adult female. Wants the red upon the occiput and nape, the fore- 

 head and crown being dusky brown, becoming more olive on the 

 occiput and nape, the w^hole being faintly spotted with dusky white 

 or posteriorly with yellowish. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-78, 

 wing 3-6, tail 2, tarsus 0'67. 



Hah. Interior of Brazil (Provinces of Goyaz, Matto Grosso, and 

 Amazonas) ; extending into Bolivia and south into the Province of 

 Corrientes, Argentine Republic. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Corrientes. Sclater Coll. 



b. cj ad. sk. Engenho do Gama, Matto Sclater Coll. 



Grosso, Sept. (J. Natterer). 

 c-f. (S ad. ; ff-i. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Mar., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. et juv. sk. May, July, Aug. (H. Smith). 



k. j ad. sk. Cai9ara, Brazil, Dec. (J. Nat- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



tere}-), 

 I. 2 ad. sk. Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.]. 



17. Dendrobates fidelis. (Plate VII.) 

 Dendrobates fidelis. Hare/. Ibis, 1889, p. 59. 



Adult male. Back, rump, and i;pper tail-coverts, scapulars and 

 wing-coverts bright golden olive, narrowly striped with yellow, the 

 median series of the wing-coverts and the upper tail-coverts tipped 

 with dull red, and the rump having concealed transverse spots or 

 bars of white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish brown, 

 externally margined with olive ; quills blackish brown, the entire 

 outer webs of the secondaries and those of the primaries at their 

 base bright golden olive; inner webs of the quills spotted with white; 

 shafts black ; tail brownish black, the central pair of feathers uni- 

 form, tlie remainder having whitish bar-like spots on the inner webs, 

 shafts black ; nasal plumes and forehead brown, the latter with 

 a few minute buffy-white stripes ; crown, occiput, and nape scarlet ; 

 lores, a stripe above the eye and another below the eye white, the 

 remainder of the face olive-brown, with hair-like stripes of white ; 

 side of the neck olive, spotted with yellow ; malar region, chin, and 

 throat olive-dusky, spotted with dull white ; from the fore neck to 

 the under tail-eovcrts, both inclusive, olive, the fore neck, chest, and 

 upper breast with stripes or longitudinal spots of dull fulvcscent 

 white, the remainder narrowly barred with dull fulvescent white ; 

 under wing-coverts white, with a few olive spots. Total length 

 5'3 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-68 ; toes (with- 

 out claws) — outer anterior 0-47, outer posterior 0-6, inner anterior 

 0-4, inner posterior 0-25. 



Adult female. Has the forehead, crown, and occiput dusky brown, 



