476 iciD^. 



plumes buffy white, with crimson tips ; face and top of the head 

 and the crest crimson, with a spot (the upper half brownish black, 

 the loM'er halt white) on the auricular region ; chin, throat, and 

 neck black, some of the feathers of the lower throat tipped with red : 

 a broad white stripe from a little way behind the malar region runs 

 down the side of the neck and joins the white stripe on the side of 

 the back : under surface of the body and the under tail-coverts buff, 

 barred with black ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries yellowish 

 white ; bill horn-colour. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1*9, 

 wing 7'1, tail 4-25, tarsus 1-33; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0-98, outer posterior 1"18, inner anterior 0-83, inner 

 posterior 0-6. 



Adah female. Has the lower nasal plumes and the lower half of 

 the face white, uniting with the white stripe down the side of the 

 neck ; upper nasal plumes blackish brown. In other respects it 

 resembles the adult male. Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 1"85, 

 wing 7*05, tail 4-4, tarsus 1'4. 



Hah. Western Ecuador and North-western Peru. 



a. S ad. sk. Ecuador. Tweeddale Coll. 



h. 2 ad.sk. Santa Rita, Ecuador ( n7/wr/o?«(?c). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Pallatanga, Ecuador (Z. Fraser). \ Sclater Coll. (T_^'])es 



d. (5 ad. sk. Esmeraldas, Ecuador (Z. Fraser). \ of 31. sclateri, Malh.) 



11. CampopMlus pollens. 



Picus pollens, Bp. Atti Sest. Riun. Sci. Ital. 1845, p. 406, cS ; 



Sundev. Consj). Av. Picin. p. 6 (1866). 

 Megapicus grayii, Malh. Bull. Sac. Hist. Nat. Metz, 1849, p. 17 ; id. 



Picidff^, i. p. 13, pi. V. figs. 1, 3, 4, d2 ad., 6 .juv. (1861). 

 Diyocopus pollens (pt.), Bp. C'o7isp. Gen. Av. i. p. 133 (1850). 

 Dryotomus pollens, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 7, no. 9 (1854). 

 Caimpephilus mesoleucus, Beichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 393, no. 907, 



pi. dcxhs. figs. 4329-30, $ 2 (1854). 

 Campepbilus albifreuatus, Beichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 431, no. 902 b, 



& p. 434, (J (1854). 

 Dryocopus mesoleucus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 75 (1854). 

 Dryocopus grayi, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 161, 1859, p. 146. 

 Campepbilus gravii, Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 331, no. 1972 (1802); 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 380. 

 Scapaneus pollens, Cab. ^- Heine, Mas. Hein. iv. p. 94 (1863). 

 Campepbilus pollens. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mas. p. 55 (1868) ; id. 



Iland-l. B. ii. p. 1«7, no. 8624 (1870) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 98 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 532 ; Pelz. Verhandl. 



zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1882, p. 448 ; Bert. <^- Tacz. P. Z. S. 



1884, p. 307. 



AduU male. Differs from C. melanoleucus in having no red what- 

 ever on the face, this, together with a distinct band at the base of 

 the forehead, being black ; nasal plumes white, and a white stripe 

 from these (including the upper part of the malar region), crossing 

 the face and running down the side of the neck, then dividing, one 

 branch uniting with the stripe down the side of the back, the other 

 extending as far as the side of the chest ; back white, centred with 



