432 riciDJ5. 



heart-shaped spots of black, the latter barred rufous and black like the 

 underparts ; the innermost (only) of the primaries barred with rufous 

 on the inner web, the inner webs of the others having more or less 

 of the basal margin uniform buff or buffy white ; tail rufous at the 

 base, with only a trace of transverse black markings, the apical 

 portion of the feathers black ; bill horny brown, with a dark tip. 

 Total length 7"8 inches, culmen 0-93, wiug 4-5, tail 2'6, tarsus 0'8 ; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'65, outer posterior 0"55, 

 inner anterior 0'43, inner posterior 0"27. 



Adult female. "Differs from the adult male in wanting the red 

 on the malar region. The dimensions are very similar to those of 

 the male." (Malherbe.) 



Hab. Para and the Lower Amazon region. 



a. cf ad. sk. Amazons (^A. R. Wallace). Sclater Coll. 



b. c? ad. sk. Para. R. Graham, Esq. [P.J. 



11. Celeus loricatus. 



Meiglyptes loricatus, Eeichenh. Scatis. Picince, p. 405, no. 947, 



pi. dclxxxi. figs. 4495-96 (1854). 

 Celeus undatus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 286. 

 Celeus mentalis, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1860, p. 137 ; id. Journ. 



Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 461, pi. lii. figs. 2, 3, c? 2 ; Sclat. ^ Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 367 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 91 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 195, no. 8729 (1870) ; Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa 



iJ^w, 1882, p. 283, no. 46. 

 Celeopicus fraseri, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 16, pi. xliii. bis. fig. 5 (1862). 

 Celeus fraseri, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 335, no. 2000 (1862). 

 Celeus squamatus, Laior. Ibis, 1863, p. 184 ; id. Ann. Lye. N. York, 



1867, p. 11. 

 Pious loricatus, Sundev. Consp.Av. Picin. p. 87 (1866). 

 Picus pholidotus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 87 (1866). 

 Celeus loricatus, Grm/, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 90 (1868); id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 195, no. 8728 (1870) ; Sclat. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neutr. 



p. 101 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 533, 549 ; Tacz. Sf Berl. op. 



cit. 1885, pp. 118, 123. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts rufous, narrowly 

 barred with black, the rump and upper tail-coverts paler, the former 

 barred, the latter having crescentic markings and spots of black ; 

 quills rufous, barred with black, the apical portion of the primaries 

 uniform black ; shafts reddish, those of the outer primaries brownish 

 black : tail black, broadly barred with rufous buff, the shafts black ; 

 head and neck rufous, the malar region, chin, and upper throat 

 crimson ; the feathers of the forehead and crown having black centres, 

 the hind neck transversely spotted with black, and the throat and 

 fore neck also spotted with black ; entire underparts from below the 

 fore neck to (and including) the under tail-coverts pale buff, the 

 feathers of the chest margined with rufous, and, together with those 

 of the upper breast, having a broad intermarginalsquamate marking 

 of black, the remaining underparts having crescentic markings of 



