43. CEoruL(Eus. 509 



Diyocopus ei'ytlirops (??ort Valenc.'), Cav.-Tayl. Ibis, 1864, p. 03. 

 Pious lineatus, var. occideutalis, Sundev. Cons}). Av. Picin. p. 8 



(1866). 

 Dryocopus mesorhynchus, Gray, List Ficid. Brit. Mus. p. 60 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 189, no. 8641 (1870). 



Adult male. Above, including wings and tail, as well as their 

 coverts, black, the outer webs of the upper scapulars being white 

 and forming a conspicuous patch, and the margin of the inner webs 

 of the quills at the extreme base also white ; shafts of quills and of 

 tail-feathers black ; upper nasal plumes black ; forehead, crown, 

 crest, and malar stripe crimson ; chin and throat white, striped with 

 black ; neck and chest black ; face dark slaty grey ; lower nasal 

 plumes yellowish white ; a buffy-white stripe from the nostril cross- 

 ing the face under the ear-covcrts, then becoming broader and 

 running down the side of the neck on to the side of the chest ; the 

 lower feathers of the chest margined with buff; under surface of the 

 body buffy white, more or less rufescent, barred with black ; the 

 under tail-coverts similar in colour, but the feathers having a broad 

 black intermarginal line and a black shaft-streak, the former giving 

 to the feathers a scaly appearance ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries uniform yellowish white ; bill horny black. Total length 14 

 inches, culmen 1-65, wing 7'6, tail 5, tarsus 1-1 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior O'SS, outer posterior 0-8, inner anterior 0-7, 

 inner posterior 0*45. 



Adult female. Has the sinciput and the malar region black, but is 

 otherwise like the adult male. Total length 13"5 inches, culmen 

 1*4, wing 7'5, tail o, tarsus l-l. 



Young, Differ from the adult in having the underparts below the 

 upper breast greyish white, with bar-like spots of dusky black ; the 

 chin and throat in the very young birds being brownish white, with 

 dusky brown striations, or, in rather older birds, pure white, with 

 stripe-like spots of dusky black, but sometimes uniform. The malar 

 region, in both sexes, slaty black, some of the feathers in the male 

 being tipped with dull crimson. In the male, the forehead, crown, 

 and occiput are crimson-scarlet, and in the female this colour is 

 confined to the hinder part of the crown and the occiput, the fore- 

 head and fore part of the crown being dusky black. 



Examples of this species from Costa liica differ slightly from 

 typical birds, being less distinctly barred below, but I do not 

 think it advisable to separate them. 



Hah. Guiana, north into Trinidad ; throughout the greater part of 

 Brazil, westward to Monterico in Peru, and through the eastern part 

 of Peru and Ecuador into New Granada, and north to Costa Rica. 



a. S ad.sk. Santa Fe,Veragua (£■. ^;y(?). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. c? juv. sk. Chiriqui, Veragua. Capt. Kellett and 



Lieut. Wood [P.]. 



c. d. 2 ad.sk. Faunmsb (J. llcZeannan). Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 e. c? ad. sk. Chepo, Panama (JE. Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. 5 ad. sk. Santa Marta, U. S. Colombia. Tweeddale Coll. 



