362 piciDiE. 



upper tail-coverts dusky olive, with yellower bars and an indica- 

 tion of a lighter shaft-spot ; wing-coverts deep golden olive tipped 

 with blood-red, the outermost having pinkish-buff sagittate spots, 

 these forming two rows ; bastard-wing and primary- coverts brownish 

 black, margined externally with olive ; (luills blackish brown, 

 the outer webs of the secondaries and the inner webs at the tip, 

 also the outer webs of the primaries at the base golden olive, the 

 outer webs of the outer primaries having one or two buffy spots on 

 the apical portion ; the inner webs of the quills with large marginal 

 spots of white ; shafts dark brown ; tail-feathers black, with bar-like 

 spots of buif on both webs, the lateral feathers being more distinctly 

 barred across both webs ; shafts black, brown at the base ; nasal 

 tufts and base of forehead brown ; the coronal and occipital feathers 

 crimson with black bases, the nuchal feathers crimson with ochrcous 

 golden bases ; hind neck bke the back ; lores and sides of the face 

 and neck ochreous yellow, becoming more golden on the side of the 

 neck, the ear-coverts brown ; chin and throat pale ochrcous, 

 spotted, more or less transversely, with dusky black ; the whole of 

 the under surface of the body and under tail-coverts ochreous white 

 barred with black slightly tinged with olive ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries yellowish white spotted with olive-black. Total 

 length 6-3 inches, culmen 0"S5, wing 3'6, tail 2-05, tarsus 0"68; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*53, outer posterior 0-6, inner 

 anterior 0-44, inner posterior 0'23. 



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

 slightly olive posteriorly, the forehead having a few minute brownish- 

 white spots. Total length 6 inches, culraeu 0'87, wing 3'5, tail 1'76, 

 tarsus 0-68. 



Hob. Northern and Xorth-eastern Brazil. 



a, b. S ? imm. Para, Lower Amazons, Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. (-£'. L. Lai/ard). 



c. S inim. ; d. Rio Tocantius, Brazil {A. li. Sclater Coll. 



5 ad. sk. Walliice). 



e. cJad.sk. Pernambuco, Brazil {W. A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Forbes). 



22. Dendrobates aflBinis. 



Carpiutero pardo dorado, Azara, Ajni/if. IIif:f. Nat. PcLvar. Parne/. ii. 



p. 321, no. 258 (1805). 

 Picus affinis, Siuains. Zool. III. ii. descr. of S , pb 78, not 5 (1821- 



22) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 167 (1826) ; S & pidl- WV/(/Z. Sijst. 



Av. Picus, sp. 61, c? $ ad. (1827); Sxcains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. 



p. 301 (1831). 

 Picus passerinus {no7i Linn.), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 10 (1823) ; 



Nemvied, Beitr. Nature/. Breis. iv. p. 431 (1832). 

 CLloronerpes affinis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 443 (1846) ; Bj). Consp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 117 (ISoO) ; Beiehenb. Secins. Ficince, p. 353, no. 811, 



pi. dcxxiv. figs. 4159-60, c? $ ad. (1854); Grni/, List Field. 



Brit. Mus. p. 108 (1808) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 199, no. 8794 



(1870). 



