438 . picid.t;. 



absence of the red malar stripe. Total length lU-5 inches, culmen 

 1-32, wing 6, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-92. 



Hah. Guiana, and Northern Brazil from Barra do Hio Negro to 

 Pernambuco. 



«, b. cS2 fid. sk. Guiana (H. Whhely). Sclater Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Takutu R., British Guiana Salviu-Godiuan Coll. 



(//. Whiteltj). 



d. S ad.sk. liupununi lUver, British Salvin-Godman Coll. 



G iiiana, July 12 (H. Whifelij). 



e. (S ad. sk. Pernambuco, Brazil {Craven). Sclater Coll. 



2. Cerchneipicus tinnunculus. 



Picus tinnunculus, Way I. Isis, 1829, p. 516; Neuivied, Beit r. Nature/. 



Bras. iv. p. 401, cS' (1832) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 84 



(1866). 

 Celeus tiuuunculus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. 



p. 130 (1850); Eeichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 405, no. 948, pi. dclx. 



lig. 4373, 2 (1854) ; Biirm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 232 (1856) ; Gray, 



List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 89 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 194, 



no. 8721 (1870) ; Pek. Orn. Bras. p. 250 (1870) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 101 (1873). 

 Celeopicos tinnunculus, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848- 



49, p. 334. 

 Cerchneipicus tinnunculus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 9, no. 93 



(1854). 

 Celeopicus tinnuncidus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 36, pi. lii. figs. 4, 5, cJ J 



(1862). 



Adult male. Differs from C. torquatus in having the hind neck 

 and entire back, rump and upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, and the 

 whole rufous of the quills clearly and broadly barred with black, 

 the ground-colour above is also paler ; the apical half of the four 

 central rectrices black, the basal half narrowly barred with rufous 

 and more broadly with black, the remaining tail-feathers black, with 

 buff or rufous spots at the base of the inner webs ; the head, chin, 

 and throat very much paler ; the side of the neck, fore neck, chest, 

 and upper breast black as in C. torquatus, but the entire under- 

 parts below the black, also the under tail-coverts are pale buff or 

 buffy white barred with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 bufP, the latter as well as the outermost of the former spotted with 

 black. Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-65, wing G, tail 3-75, 

 tarsus 0-92 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-95, outer 

 posterior 0-82, inner anterior 0"68, inner posterior 0-42. 



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

 red malar stripe. Total length 11-5 inches, cnliueu 1-4, wing G-25, 

 tail 3-95, tarsus 1-07. 



Hab. Eastern Brazil (Bahia), and westward in Matto Grosso to 

 the Paraguay and Guapore Bivers. 



a. 2 ad. st. Brazil. Zoological Society. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil (Dr. Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Bahia (Dr. Wncherer). Sclater Coll. 



