33. CKLtDs. 435 



Picus verreauxi, Bundeo. Cojisp. Ao. ricin. p. 86 (18G6). 



Adult male. Differs from C. castaneus in being darker rufous 

 above, and m haying the greater part of the back, the scapulars 

 wing-covcrts and both webs of the secondaries (generally) barred 

 Aith black, the rump and upper tail-coverts (alone) being uniform • 

 the rufous on the outer webs of the primaries sometimes barred with 

 black, the iimer webs black, but with more or less of the basal mar- 

 gin dull yellowish buff ; head and neck deep chocolate-brown, the 

 feathers more or less centred with black ; the abdomen, flanks and 

 under tail-coverts uniform ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 rufescent brown. Total length 8-3 inches, culmen O'i), wing -t-8o 

 tail 3, tarsus 0-8 ; toes (without claws)- outer anterior 0-65^ outer 

 posterior 0-6, inner anterior 0-40, inner posterior 0-32 



AduUfenuile. Has no red on the malar region, this being dark 

 rutous with a few almost obsolete spots of black. Total leno-fh 8 

 inches, culmen 085, wing 4-8, tail 2-85, tarsus 076 



ro««r/. Resemble the adult, but have more rufous at the base of 

 the central tail-feathers ; the head and crest, as well as the neck, 

 are uniform, or very slightly varied witli black which centres the 

 leathers. 



Hah. Cayenne and west through the Upper Amazon region into 

 Jliastern Ecuador and North-east Peru. 



^' *^ i?f' '^- Oyapock, Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. d aa. si£. Oyapock. Sclater Coll 



'^' «H '^l'"'^' ' -^ ^ Sai^yacu, Ecuador ( C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



^^- sii- Buckley). 



(/. 5 ad. sk Upper Amazons (Bates). Sclater Coll. 



". 6 juv. sk. Ucayali, Peruvian Amazons, E. Bartlett rC.l. 



June. -' 



14. Celeus spectabilis. (Plate X.) 

 Celeus spectabilis, Sdaf. c^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 161. 



^Adult female.-] (Type of species.) Back, scapulars, and win-- 

 coverts fulvous, with a tinge of buff, each feather having broad bars 

 and a large subapical spot of deep black; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts fulvescent buff; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish 

 brown, the latter margined with rufous ; primaries deep rufous on 

 more or less of their basal portion, this colour increasing in extent 

 on the inner feathers and prolonged upon the outer webs, the apical 

 portion o the primaries blackish brown ; secondaries deep rufous 

 tipped with blackish brown, the innermost of these feathers more or 

 less fulvescent, broadly barred and spotted with black ; shafts of 

 primaries dark brown, those of the secondaries orange-reddish • tail 

 b ack, the dwarf feather tipped and barred with fulvescent buff shafts 

 black ; entire head and neck deep rufous ; chest black ; the under 

 surface of the body and under tail-coverts fulvescent buff, the breast 



