34. CEKCHNEIPICUS. 437 



d! . Upper parts, wings and their coverts 

 narrowly barred with black, the bars 

 very much narrower than the inter- 

 spaces ; the whole of the tail-feathers 

 barred rufous and black. 



c". With red malar stripe occidentalis S ad., p. 439. 



d". With no malar stripe occidentalis $ ad., p. 439. 



1. Cerchneipicus torquatus. 



Le Pic a cravate noire, £uff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 35 (1780). 



Pic a cravate noire de Cayenne, Dauhent. PI. Enl. no. 86-3, 5 ad. 



Picus torquatus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Eid. p. 52, no. 863 (1783). 



Picus multicolor, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 429 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 71 (1818) ; id. Sf Bonn. Enc. MM. iii, 



p. 1306 (1823) ; Valenc. Bict. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 175 (1826) ; Sundev. 



Consp. Av. Picin. p. 84 (1866). 

 Picus scutatus, Wagl. Sysi. Av. Picus, no. 77 (1827). 

 Picus thoracinus. Less. Traite, i. p. 223 (1831). 

 Celeus torquatus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 440 (1846) ; id. List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 89 (18(38) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 194, no. 8723 (1870) 



Sclat. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 101 (1873). 

 Celeus multicolor. Cab. in Schu7nb. Beis. Guian. iii. p. 715 (1848) 



Bjh Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 130 (1850) ; Beichenb. Scans. Picincs. 



p. 406, no. 949, pi. dcLx. figs. 4374-75, $ $ (1854) ; Pelz. Ibis 



1873, p. 118 ; Salv. op. cit. 1886, p. 59. 

 Celeopicos multicolor, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 



p. 335. 

 Cerchneipicus multicolor, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 9, no. 94 



(1854). 

 Celeopicus multicolor, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 34, pi. Iii. figs. 1, 2, c? 9 



(1862). 



Adult male. Above, together with the wings and tail and their 

 coverts rufous, a broad black band across the extreme upper back, 

 the outer wing-coverts margined at the tip and with an occasional 

 spot of black ; the primaries and outer secondaries narrowly barred 

 with black, the outer primaries having their apical portion black, 

 the others only tipped with the same ; shafts of outer primaries 

 brown, those of inner primaries and secondaries reddish ; tail- 

 feathers tipped and narrowly barred with black, the shafts black ; 

 head and crest rufous, paler on the chin and throat ; a very large 

 crimson malar stripe ; the whole of the neck in a line with the hind 

 part of the malar stripe, chest and upper breast uniform black, and 

 uniting with the black zone on the upper back ; the remainder of 

 the underparts and under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries uniform pale rufous or rufous buff. Total length ID'S 

 inches, culmen 1 "35, wing 5-85, tail 3-85, tarsus 0"95 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0'85, outer posterior 0*75, inner anterior 

 0'62, inner posterior 0"35. 



Adult female. May be distinguished from the adult male by the 



