472 PICID.E, 



s. d" ad.; a' ,h' . $ Baliia, Brazil (Z>;-. JfKf/fwe;-). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. 

 c' . 5 ad. sk. South America. J. Gould, Esq. 



8, Campophilus malherbii. 



Campephilus malherbii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 4.36, pi. cviii. J ad. 



(1845) ; Reielwnh. Scans. Plcina;, p. 392, no. 903, pi. dcxlviii. 



figs. 4323-24, cT 2 , 4325 c? (1854); Svlat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 331, 



no. 1973 (1862) ; id. .Sj- Salv. P. Z. S. 1804, p. 3U6; Salv. op. cit. 



1867, p. 157; Sdat. op. cit. 18(18, p. 029; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 54 (1808); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 187, no. 8623 (1870); 



Salo. P.Z. S. 1870, p. 212; Wyatt, Ihis, 1871, p. 380; Sclat. Sf 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 98 (1873) ; iid. P.Z. S. 1875, p. 235, 



1879, p. 532 ; Salv. iSf Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 205. 

 Picus anais. Less. Descr. Mavim. Sj- Ois. rec. decouv. p. 203, J (1847). 

 Megapicos malherbii, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 



p. 319. 

 Megapicus malherbii, Malh. Bidl. Soc. Hist. Nat. Metz, 1849, p. 17; 



id. Picid(e, i. p. 15, pi. vi. figs. 1, 2, 4, c? $ ad., $ juv. (1861). 

 Dryocopus pollens, Bp. Comp. Gen. Av. i. p. 133 (1850), pt. ; Sclat. 



P.Z.S. 1855, p. 101. 

 Dryotomus malherbii, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. p. 7, no. 8 (1854). 

 Dryotomus verreauxi, Bp. Notes Orn. Collect. Delattr. p. 85, note 



(1854). 

 Scapeneus malherbei, Cah. ^ Heine, Mus. Kein. iv. p. 93 (1863). 

 Picus malherbei, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 5 (1866). 



Adult male. Differs from C. melanoleuats in having the posterior 

 part of the loral region red, this colour entirely surrounding the 

 eye ; the under surface of the body much more rufescent ; the lower 

 feathers of the black stripe down the middle of the upper back 

 barred Avith buff ; the primaries tipped with brownish white ; the 

 bill blacker and much more powerful. Total length 13-5 inches, 

 culmen 2-05, wing 7"65, tail 4-6, tarsus 1*42 ; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0-9, outer posterior 1-3, inner anterior 0-8, inner 

 posterior 0'6. 



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

 and the central and elongated feathers of the crown black ; the 

 ■whole of the malar region white, this forming a broad stripe which 

 includes the lower half of the ear-coverts and unites with the white 

 stripe down the side of the neck. Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 

 1-9, wing 7-25, tail 4-5, tarsus 1-4. 



Toung femcde. Differs from the adult of the same sex in having 

 the eye encircled by black, and a broad black stripe behind it 

 including the upper ear-coverts and running on to the hind neck, 

 this being separated from the red occiput and nape by a buffy-white 

 stripe ; the red on the head more scarlet and confined to the occiput 

 and nape ; the underparts duller, and the bars less deep black. 



Hah. U.S. Colombia, north to Veragua ; and Western Venezuela. 



a. $ ad. sk. [Mexico.] Purchased. 



h. cj imm. sk. Carthagena. Purchased, 



c. (5 ad.sk. Calovevora, Veragua (is'.^4/-(-e'). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



