530 PIClDiE. 



Adult female. " Similar to llic male, but rather smaller, and with 

 the top of the head entirely spotted with white." (Felzeln.) 



Toung female. " Has the chest crossed by irregular browu bars." 

 (Pelzelu.) ' 



Hah. North Brazil (Rio Branco and Rio Cauame). 



a. tS ad. sk. Kio Branco, Brazil, May 30 Sclater Coll. 



{J. Natter er). 



5. Picunmns fuscus. 



Picumnus fuscus, Teh. Orn. Bras. pp. 242, 335, 442 (1870) ; Gray, 

 Iland-l. B. ii. p. ISO, no. 8527 (1870) ; Pek. ^ Lorenz. Ann. k.-k. 

 Naturhist. Hofm. Wien, p. 42 (1888). 



Young female. " Above rufous dusky, the nape more iuclining to 

 rufous ; the crouTi dusky, uniform in front, the posterior feathers 

 rufescent in the middle ; lores, orbital region, sides of the head, and 

 neck pale rufous ; under surface of the body ochreous white ; the 

 wing-coverts and secondaries margined with olivaceous ; bill obscure 

 horn-colour; feet pale. Length 4-3 inches, wing 2-15, tail 1-35, 

 culmeu 0-55, bill from gape 0-65, tarsus 0-6." (Fehehi.) 



The tail is typical, and a description of it need not be given. 



Hab. Rio Guapore, west of Matto Grosso, Brazil. 



6. Picumnus temmincki. 



Carpintero enano, Azara, Ajmnt. Hist. Nat.Pd.var. Parar/. ii. p. 327 



(1805). 

 Picus minutus {non Linn.), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 11 (1823). 

 Picumnus exilis {non Licht.}, Temm. PI. Col. livr. 62°, no. 371, fig. 2 



(1825); Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 115 (1828); Wac/l.Isis, 1829, 



p. 646. 

 Yunx exilis, Less. Traite, i. p. 2-32 (1831). 



Piculus exilis, Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, N. Ann. dti Mus. 1832, p. 397. 

 Asthenurus exilis. Strains. C'lassif. B. ii. p. 311 (1837). 

 Picumnus temminckii, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, pp. 6, 111 ; Graij, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 432 (1845) ; Hartl. Ljid. Azara, p. 16 (1847) ; Bp. Cons}). 



Gen. Av. i. p. 140 (1850) ; id. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 11, no. 243 



(1854) ; Eeichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 343, no. '780, pi. dcxvi. fig. 



4110, 5 , pi. dclxxviii. figs. 4480-82, c? ? $ (1854) ; Burni. Th. 



Bras. ii. p. 246 (1856) : Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 21 (1863); 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 240, 442 (187U) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr, p. 98 (1873) ; Berl. Sf Her. in Madar . Zeitsch. gesamm. 



Orn. ii. p. 156, pi. ix. fig. 2, S (1885). 

 Picumnus buffoni {non Lafr.), Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 295, pi. cxvi. 



figs. 3, 4 (1862). 

 Picumnus ruficoUis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 97 (1866); Gray, 



List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 24 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 179, 



no. 8507 (1870). 



Adult male. Differs from P. cirrhatus in having the sides of the 

 face and neck rufous, the feathers of the malar region whiter than 

 the remainder of the face and tipped with dusky ; the upper parts 

 are much more rufescent, and the wing-coverts have more rufescent 



