478 piciD.i?. 



Om. Bras. p. 243 (1870) ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1873, p. 280 ; Sclat. 8r Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 98 ( 1873). 

 Dryocopus robustus, Bj). Consp. Gen. Ac. i. p. 133 (1850). 

 Dryocopus percocciueus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 134, c? (1850). 

 Megapifus robustus, Malh. Picida, i. p. 23, pi. iii. figs. 4(^,5 $ 



(1861). 

 Phloeoceastes robustus, Cab. J.f. O. 1862, p. 176 ; id. ^- Heine, Mus. 



Hein. iv. p. 95 (1863). 



Adult male. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform buff ; 

 scapulars, -wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills 

 brownish black, the inner webs of the quills crossed by broad bar- 

 like spots or bars of rufous or rufous buff, some of the outer webs 

 of the secondaries having a concealed rufous spot at the base ; shafts 

 black ; tail and the shafts black : nasal plumes buff tipped with 

 crimson ; entire head and neck (except the base of the hind neck) 

 crimson, with a spot (the upper half of which is dusky brown, the 

 lower half buffy white) of bristly feathers covering the ears ; base 

 of the hind neck buff barred with black ; entire under surface of 

 the body and under tail-coverts buiiy white barred with black : 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale buff, a few of the lower 

 coverts with dusky black barring. Total length 14-5 inches, 

 culmen 2'15, wing 7-7, tail 4-85, tarsus lo; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 1, outer posterior 1*36, inner anterior 0*82, 

 inner posterior 0"62. 



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

 plumes, lower part of the lores, and the malar region buffy white, 

 and uniting w ith the feathers covering the ears ; base of the fore- 

 head, upper half of the lores, and a broad stripe bordering the upper 

 part of the white patch, black ; the feathers covering the chin-angle, 

 and a stripe behind separating the white malar region from the red 

 throat, black. Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 2, wing 7'85, 

 tail 4-7, tarsus 1'5. 



In immature birds the feathers of the neck have less red on their 

 tips, and the bases, which are barred buff and dusky black, show 

 through more or less. 



Hab. Southern and Eastern Brazil, north into Bahia ; Para- 

 guay. 



a, b. 2 ad. sk. Brazil. Lord Stuart de 



Rothesay [P.]. 



c,d.S2 «id. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



e,f.d2 fid. sk. Brazil. Tweeddale Coll. 



ff. 2 ad. sk. Rio Grande, Brazil. Tweeddale Coll. 



h. c? imm. ; i. 5 Bahia, Brazil {Dr. Wu- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. cherer). 



13. Campophiliis hsematogaster. 



Pious hsematogaster, Tschiali, Av. Consp. Bcp. Fei-nan. in Arch, fur 

 Natiirg. 1844, p. 302, pi. xxv. ; Cab. in Tschiidi's Faun. Peruan., 

 Om. p. 43, pi. xxv. c? (1845-46) ; Sunder. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 6 

 (1866). 



Dryocopus hsematogaster, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 436 (1845) ; Bp. 



