46. ricuMNus. 531 



margins or apical spots; the underparts tinged with rufous poste- 

 riorly ; under wing-coverts buff. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 2'15, tail 1*3, tarsus 0*5 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 

 0"43, outer posterior 0-43, inner anterior 0-3, inner posterior 0-22. 



Adult female. Has no red on the head, the forehead and crown 

 being like the occiput and nape black spotted with pure white. 

 Total length 3'5 inches, culmen 0*42, wing 2-1, tail 1"3, tarsus 0-5. 



Immature female. Has the ochreous-brown transverse markings 

 on the back more distinct ; the posterior half of the face and the 

 side of the neck paler, and of a buff colour instead of rufous, with a 

 few transverse dusky brown markings. In this plumage the top of 

 (he head is deep black spotted with pure white. 



Hub. South Brazil (from Pelotas in the Province of Rio Grande 

 do Sul, north to Ypanema) and Paraguay. 



a. (S ad. sk. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Tweeddale Coll. 



b, c. (S ad. ; d. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Salvin-Godtuan Coll. 

 2 imm. sk. (Joyner). 



e. 5 ad. sk. Ypanema, Brazil, May {J, Sclater Coll. 



Natterer). 



7. Picunmus cirrhatus. 



Yunx miuuta, Vieill. N. Diet. cVHist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 230 (1819) ; id. 



^- Bonn. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1300 (1823). 

 Picumnus cirrhatus, Temm. PI. Col. livr. 62^, no. 371, fig. 1 (1825) ; 



Less. Man. WOrn. ii. p. 116 (1828) ; Cab. ^ Heine, Mas. Hein. iv. 



p. 19 (1863) ; Sundev. Co7isjj. Av. Pidn. p. 98 (1866) ; Gray, List 



Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 24 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 179, no. 8o02 



(1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 241, 442 (1870) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Co//, p. 381, no. 1862(1882). 

 Picumnus minutus {nan Linn.), Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 645 ; Burm. Th. 



Bras. ii. p. 245 (1856). 

 Yunx cirrhatus, Less. Traite, i. p. 232 (1831). 

 Yunx niinutissima (pt.). Less. Traite, i. p. 232 (1831). 

 Piculus cirrhatus, Geoffr. St.-Hil. N. Ann. du Mus. 1832, p. 397. 

 Picunmus minutissimus, Nemvied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 378 



(1832). 

 Asthenurus cirrhatus. Steams. Classif. B. ii. p. 311 (1837). 

 Picumnus caj-eunensis, Z«/r. Bev. Zool. 1845, pp. 6, 8, 111 (pt.) ; 



Reiehenb. Scans. Pieince, p. 343, no. 779, pi. dc.xvi. tig. 4109, cJ 



(1854) ; Malh. Picida, ii. p. 280, pi. cxx. tigs. 1, 3 (1862). 

 Picumnus exilis (non Licht.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 140 (1850) ; 



lieichenb. Scans. Picinee, pi. dcxvi. figs. 4107-8 (not text) (1854). 

 Picumnus azarse, Cab. S^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 20 (1863) ; Sundev. 



Consp. Av. Pidn. p. 98 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 24 



(1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 179, no. 8.503 (1870); Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. p. 442 (1870). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and rump brown, indistinctly crossed 

 by dusky and ochreous-brown bars : wing-coverts brown, tipped or 

 spotted at the ti]) with brownish white or ochreous brown ; quills 

 dusky brown, the secondaries externally edged with dull yellowish 

 white, the inner webs of the quills more or less margined with dull 

 white ; shafts brown ; upper tail-coverts white barred with dusky ; 



2m 2 



