430 riciD.E. 



a-c. c? fid.; Sai"a3^acu, Ecuador (C. i>«<p/i;/«/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



c. (S ad. sk. Peruviau Amazons (ii'. Bartlett). Sclater Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Yurimaguas, E. Peru {E. Bart- Sclater Coll. 



lett). 



g. cj imm. sk. Chamicuros, E. Peru, Oct. E. Bartlett [C.J. 



h. c? ad. sk. Sarayacu, E. Peru {E. Bartlett). Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Samiria, E. Peru, Oct. {J. Hau.v- Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



well) . 



k. 2ad.sk. Yquitos, Peru, Aug. (//. J^F/hM^). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



y. Celeus rufus. 



Pic roux de Cayenne, Dauhent. PI. Enl. 604. Hg. 1, 5 . 



Picus rufus, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 4-32 (1788) ; I'emm. Cat. Syst. p. 15 



(1807) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 91 (1818) ; id. Sf 



Bomi, Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1317 (1823) ; JFac/l. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 72 



(1827) ; Less. Traite, i. p. 223 (1831) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. 



p. 87 (1866). 

 Celeus rufus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 440 (1846) ; Cah. in Schomb. Reis. 



Guian. iii. p. 715 (1848) ; Bj). Comp. Gen. Av. i. p. 130 (1850) ; 



Sclat. Cat.Amer. B.-p. 335, no. 1999 (1862); Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mtis. p. 90 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 194, no. 8722 (1870) ; 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 253 (1870) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 101 (1873) ; Salr. Ibis, 1886, p. 69. 

 Meighi)tes rufus, Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 404, no. 945, pi. dclix. 



tigs. 4370-71, <S 2 (1854). 

 Celeopicus rufus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 13, pi. 1. figs. 6, 7, c? $ (1862). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, wiug-coverts, secondaries on both 

 webs, and upper tail- coverts rufous barred with black, the rump 

 yellower and more narrowly barred with black ; primaries on lioth 

 webs barred rufous and black, with more or less of the apical portion 

 uniform black ; shafts of primaries black, those of the secondaries 

 brown where crossed by the black bar, otherwise orange-reddish ; 

 tail rufous, barred with black on the basal portion of the feathers, 

 the apical portion black, except on the lateral feathers which are 

 barred entirely with black ; shafts black ; head and neck paler 

 rufous than tlie back, and transversely spotted with black ; the 

 malar region crimson, this colour extending upwards to the eye ; 

 fore neck and chest black, the feathers narrowly margined with 

 rufous and having a scaly appearance : remainder of tlie under- 

 parts rufous, yellower posteriorly, the under tail-coverts also rufous, 

 and the whole crossed by bars or bar-like spots of black ; uuder 

 wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; on the edge of the wing a 

 few blackish spots ; bill white at the tip. Total length 7"8 inches, 

 culmen 0-86, wing 4-3, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-73 ; toes (without claws)- — 

 outer anterior 0-65, outer posterior 0'58, inner anterior 0"48, inner 

 posterior 0'25. 



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

 upon the malar region and cheeks, these being rufous, and the malar 

 region spotted with black. Total length 7"G inches, culmen 0'88, 

 wing 4'3, tail 2-55, tarsus 0-7. 



