358 piciD.?:. 



the two latter having short hair-liko stripes of yellowish white, the 

 nape with broader and yellower stripe-like spots. Total length 

 5'2 inches, culmen 0-72, wing 3-15, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-65. 

 Hub. U.S. Colombia (Santa Fe de Bogotfi). 



Purchased. (Type of species.) 

 Siilvin-Godman Coll. 

 "<clater Coll. 



18. Dendrobates spilogaster. 



? Picus squamosus*, Tieill. N. Diet. tTHist. Nat. xxvi. p. 74 (1818) ; 



id. .*)• Bonn. Enc. MM. iii. p. 1307 (1823) ; Wm/l. Syst. Av. Picus, 



sp. 57 (1827). 

 Picus spilogaster, Waql. Si/st. Av. Picus, sp. 59 (1827) ; Sundev. 



Consp. Av. Picin. p. 41 (1866). 

 Chloronevpes spilogaster, Gra;/, Gen. B. ii. p. 443 (1846) ; Bp. 



Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 117 (1850) ; id. Consp. Valuer. Zyuod. p. 9, 



no. 157 (1854) ; Reichenh. Scans. Picina, p. 355, no. 818 (1854) ; 



Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 110 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 200, no. 8800 (1870) ; Selat. ^- Salv. Nomenel. Ai\ Neotr. p. 99 



(1873). 

 ? Cbloronerpes squamosus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 443 (1846); Bp. 



Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 117 (1850); Reichenh. Scans. Pieince, p. 355, 



no. 817 (1854). 

 Cbloronerpes ruficeps (nan Spix), Reichenh. Scans. Pieince, p. 353, 



no. 812, pi. dcxxii. tigs. 4146-47 (1854). 

 Eleopicus adspersus, Bp. Consp. Voluer. Zygod. p. 10, no. 162 (1854). 

 Mesopicus spilogaster, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 62 (1862) {ex Wagl.). 

 Me.sopicus adspersus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 64, pi. Ix. tigs. 7, 8 (1862). 

 Cbloronerpes adspersus, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 337, no. 2014 (1862). 

 Campias spilogaster, Cah. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 150 (1863); 



Pvh. Orn. Bras. p. 247 (1870) ; Deri. J.f. O. 1873, p. 281. 



Adult mctle. Back, rump, scapulars, wing-coverts, outer webs of 

 primaries at the base, and almost entire outer webs of secondaries 

 olive, the upper parts barred and spotted with yellow and having 

 brighter yellow shaft-stripes, the wing-coverts and outer webs of 

 quills spotted with yellow ; inner webs of quills spotted with white ; 

 shafts blackish brown ; upper series of upper tail-coverts olive, the 

 lower series barred black and brownish white and margined with 

 olive, the whole being spotted with yellow ; tail brownish black barred 

 with buff, the shafts brownish black; nasal plumes rufous buff; 

 forehead, crown, and occiput brownish black, the forehead having 

 longitudinal spots of huffy white, the crown and occiput striped 

 with red, and the feathers with yellow shaft-stripes, the nape and 

 hind neck olive, also with yellow shaft -stripes ; lores and a stripe 

 above the eye and runuing down the side of the neck and another 

 passing under the ear-coverts and down the side of tlie neck white, 

 and between these a broad stripe of dusky olive ; malar region 

 dusky striped with greyish white, and behind this a dusky-olive 

 stripe : lower side of the neck dusky olive, spotted and striped with 



* This 13 possibly the present species, but the description is inaccurate and 

 the habitat wrong. I therefore adopt the title of D. spilogaster (Wagl.). 



