23. DENDEOliATES, 359 



yellowish white; chin and throat white striped with olive-dusky; 

 entire iinderparts, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts dusky 

 olive ; the chest, breast, sides of the body, flanks, and under wing- 

 coverts spotted with yellowish white, the remainder barred with the 

 same. Total length 6-8 inches, ciilmen O'DT, wing 3-9, tail 2-27, 

 tarsus 0-7o ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-52, outer 

 posterior 0"6, inner anterior 0-45, inner posterior 0"25. 



Immature male. Resembles the adult of the same sex, but has 

 the underparts less fulvescent, and the ground of the face and 

 neck white, the superciliary stripe as well as the stripe below the 

 ear-coverts showing very conspicuously ; the spots on the forehead 

 whiter, and the crown-feathers, in addition to their red tips, having 

 very distinct white shaft-stripes ; the bacli presents a more barred 

 appearance, and the yellow transverse markings are narrower, as 

 are also the light bars and transverse spots on the wings and tail. 



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

 on the head, the forehead, crown, occiput, and nape being brownish 

 black, each feather having a white shaft-stripe terminating in a 

 spot. Total length 0-4 inches, culmen 0"97, wing 3-75, tail 1'75, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Hah. Sao Paulo and the more southerly provinces of Brazil ; 

 Uruguay, south to Jlonte Video, and the eastern part of the 

 Argentine Republic (Misiones). 



a. S ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Ypauema, S.E. Brazil, June Sclater Coll. 



(/. Natter er). 



c. d. c? ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joi/ner) 

 e. (S imm. sk. Paysandu, August. Alan Peel, Esq. [P.]. 



^. cJ ad. sk. San Javier, Misiones, Arg. Sclater Coll. 



Rep., June (£. W. White). 



19. Dendrobates maculifrons. 



Picus affinis, J nee S , Swains. Zool. III. ii. (nee pi. 78), (1821-22) ; 

 War/l. Si/sf. Av. Picus, sp. 61, 2 0"lj (1827) ; Sundev. Consp. 



Av. Picin. p. 37 (18GG). 

 Picus maculifrons, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 62, pi. Ivi. figs. 1, $ (1824). 

 Picus passerinus, cJ juv., Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. CO (J ad.) 



(1827). 

 Chloronerpes affinis {non Sicains.), Sclat. Cat. Anier. B. p. 3.37, 



no. 2012 (1862); id. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 99 (1873); 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 394, no. 1929 (1882) ; Sclat. Sf Huds. Arr,. 



0/-71. ii. p. 20(1889). 

 Mesopicus affinis (tion Stoains.), Malh. Picidce, ii. p. .50, pi. ixi. 



figs. 6 cJ , 7 5 (1862). 

 Campias maculifrons, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. W. p. 148 (1863 ; 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 245 (1870). 

 Picus albipes, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 37 (1866). 

 Chloronerpes maculifrons, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 108 



(1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8787 (1870). 

 Chloronerpes albipes, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mas. p. 108 (1S6S) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8793 (1870). 



