Adiilt male. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, scapulars and 

 wing-covcrts light golden olive, covered with longitudinal spots of 

 yellow : outer webs of secondaries and of primai'ies at the base 

 light golden olive, the remaining portion of the quills blackish 

 brown, the outer webs spotted with yellowish, the spots being 

 almost obsolete on the secondaries ; shafts blackish brown ; tail 

 blackish brown, the central feathers spotted with greenish buff, the 

 lateral ones transversely spotted and barred with buff, shafts brown 

 with black tips : nasal plumes brown ; sinciput blackish brown 

 striped with huffy white, the feathers of the hind crown and 

 occiput tipped with scarlet, the outer edge of the occiput and 

 the nape golden yellow, this colour spreading on to the side of 

 the neck ; lores white ; face olive-dusky striped with white ; chin 

 and throat white, with olive-dusky longitudinal spots : sides of the 

 neck and the whole under surface of the body aud under tail- 

 coverts olive-dusky barred with fulvescent white ; under wing- 

 coverts yellowish white with a few dusky-olive spots, the edge 

 of the wing varied with blackish olive. Total length 6-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-86, wing 3-5o, tail 1'9, tarsus 0-7 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0'5, outer posterior 0-63, inner anterior 0'4, iuuer 

 posterior 0-25. 



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

 crown, and occiput blackish brown with short stripes of dull white. 

 Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-72, tail 2*05, tarsus 

 0-7. 



Bab. Brazil (Eahia) *. 



M. Claussen [P.]. 

 M. Claussen [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



20. Dendrobates cassini. 



Mesopicus cassini, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 55, pi. Iviii. figs. 2, 3, d' c? 



(I8r,2). 



Campias sedulus, Cah. Sf Heine, Mjis. Hem. iv. p. 153 (1863). 

 Campias cassini, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 149 (1863). 

 Picus cassini, Sundev. Consp. Av. Ptctn. p. 39 (186(5). 

 Picus sedulus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 39 (18G6). 

 CLloronerpes cassini, Gray, Lid Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 109 (1868) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8791 (1870). 

 Chloronerpes sedulus, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 109 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 199, iio. 8790 (1870) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Numcncl. 



Av.Neotr. p. 99 (1873); Salv. Lbis, 1886, p. 58. 



Adult male. Back, rump and upper tail-coverts, scapulars and 

 "wing-coverts, outer webs of secondaries and of primaries at the 



* Messrs. Sclater and Hudson include this species in their ' Argentine Orni- 

 thology ' relying upon the identification by Mr. White of a pair obtained by 

 him at Canipo Santo in Salta. The authors, however, say that Mr. White's 

 determination requires confirmation. 



