468 I'lciDj^. 



Sijsi. Nat. i. p. 426 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Oni. i. p. 226 (1790) ; 



Stepk. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 159 (1815) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 



xxvi. p. 71 (1818) ; id. 8,- Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1306 (1823) ; 



Bp. Journ. Acad. Naf. Sc. Philad. v. p. 137 (1825) ; Wagl. Syst. 



Av. Picus, sp. 12, $ (1827) ; id. Isis, 1829, p. 509; Less. Traite, 



i. p. 225, 5 (1831) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 6 (1866). 

 Campephilus rubricollis. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 436 (1845) ; Cab. in 



Schumb. Reis. Guiun. iii. p. 716 (1848) ; lleichenb. Scans. Picincs, 



p. 395, no. 915, pi. deli. iigs. 4341-42, $ ? (1854) ; Bp. Consp. 



Volucr. Zyqod. p. 7, no. 13 (1854) ; Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 332, 



no. 1978 (1862) ; Gray. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 56 (1868) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 187, no. 8028 (1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 242 



(1870) ; Sclat. C^ Salv. Nometwl. Av. Neotr. p. 98 (1873) ; Salv.Ibis, 



1886, p. 58. _ 



DiTocopus rubricollis, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 134 (1850). 

 INIegapicus rubricolli.«, Malh. Picida, i. p. 25, pi. viii. figs. 6, 7, (^ $ 



ad. (1861). 

 Phloeoceastes rubricollis, Cab. J. f. O. 1862, p. 176; id. ^' Heine, 



Mus. Hein. iv. p. 96 (1863). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 wing-coverts, outer webs of the quills and the apical portion (more 

 or less) of the inner webs brownish black, the remaining portion of 

 the inner webs of the quills being rufous, this colour on most of the 

 primaries occupying two thirds of their length and decreasing in 

 extent upon the secondaries, the innermost of all having only a 

 small spot of dusky rufous at the base, and this confined to the 

 margin ; at the base of the quills the outer webs are more or less 

 striped with rufous next to the shaft ; shafts of quills orange-red 

 upon the rufous web and black upon the remaining part; tail- 

 feathers and the shafts black ; nasal plumes and entire head and 

 neck crimson, with a small spot (the upper half dusky brown, the 

 lower half bufty white) on the auricular region ; entire underparts 

 and under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts and axillaries rich rufous, 

 the feathers of the chest more or less tipped with crimson. Total 

 length 13 inches, culmen 1-85, wing 7'4, tail 4-0, tarsus 1*45 ; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0-9, outer posterior 1-22, inner 

 anterior O'T, inner posterior 0'55. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the nasal 

 plumes, lores, space under the eye, and the malar region huffy white, 

 and uniting with the bristly white feathers covering the ears ; at 

 the base of the forehead, and along the upper edge of this white 

 patch, a black line ; the feathers covering the chin-angle and a line 

 separating the white malar region from the red throat also black. 

 Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-75, wing 7'15, tail 4-35, tarsus 

 1-4. 



Hah. Guiana, and south-west through the Upper Amazon Region 

 (between Barra do Rio Negro and Marabitanas) into Eastern 

 Ecuador. 



a. 2 ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



b. c? ad. sk. GinanK (Brown). Sclater Coll. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Oyapock, Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll 



