440 



Key to the Species. 



A. Head, neck, and body, above and 



below, nniform yellow. 

 a'. Winof-coverts dusky brown or ru- 

 fous-brown, tipped only with dull 

 pale yellow ; secondaries deep 

 rufous. 



a" . With red malar stripe Jlanis c? ad., p. 440. 



h" . "With no malar stripe JJavus $ ad., p. 441. 



b'. "Wing-coverts aliuo.st entirely pale 

 yellow ; secondaries more or less 

 pale sandy rufous. 



c". With red malar stripe semicinnamomeus c? ad., p. 441. 



d" . With no malar stripe semicinnamomeus 5 ad., p. 442. 



B. Head, neck, and body not uniform ; 



the crown, chest, upper back, and 

 upper tail-coverts spotted and varied 

 with dark brown ; with a red malar 

 stripe in the male Jiamis juv., p. 441. 



1. Crocomorphus flavus. 



Picus flavus, Miill. Si/st. Xaf. 1776, p. 01. 



Pic jaune de Cavenue, Buff. Hist. Xaf. Ois. vii. p. 32 (1780) ; 



Daubent. PI. Enl no. 509, S ad. 

 Picus citrinus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 30, no. 509 (1783). 

 Picus exalbidus, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 4:28 (1788) ; Valenc. Diet. Sc. 



Nat.x\.-p. 174 (1826); Less. Traite,\.^. 223 (1831); Nmivied, 



Beitr. Natitrg. Bi-as. iv. p. 404 (1832) ; Sundev. Cunsp. Av. Picin. 



p. 85 (1866). 

 Picus flavicans. Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 240 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 78 (1818) ; Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 60, pi. 11. 



fig. 2, 2 (1824). 

 Celeus exalbidus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542 ; Cab. in Sehomb. Iteis. 



Guian. iii. p. 715 (1848) ; Bp. Cmisp. Gen. Av. i. p. 130 (1850) ; 



id. Consp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 8, no. 88 (1854) ; EeicJienb. Scans. 



Picince, p. 407, no. 954, pi. dclxi. figs. 4384-85, cJ ad. & juv. 



(1854). 

 Malacolophus flavicans. Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 309 (1837). 

 Celeus citrinus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 440 (1846) : Sclat. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 336, no. 2006 (1862) ; id. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 196, 1867, 



p. 753 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 252 (1870) ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 390 ; 



Sclat. <^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 291 : Tucz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 99 



(1880) ; Salv. Ibis, 1886, p. 59. 

 Celeopicus exalbidus, Malh. Picid^s, ii. p. 30, pi. Iv. figs. 4-6, cJ 5 



ad., d" juv. (1862). 

 Celeus flavus. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 88 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 194, no. 8715 (1870) ; Sclat. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 101 (1873); Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 403, no. 1969(1882), 



Pt- . . . , 



Celeus semicinnamomeus (non Reichenb.), Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 88 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 194, no. 8720 (1870). 



Celeus subflavus, Sclat. 8)- Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 21. 



Adult male. Head, neck, and entire body above and below, also 

 the scapulars and upper ttiil-coverts, canary-yellow ; wing-coverts 



