532 piciBiE. 



tail typical ; nasal plumes buff tipped with black ; top of the head, 

 supercilium, occiput, and nape black, the feathers of the forehead 

 and crown tipped with scarlet, the remainder spotted with pure 

 white ; hind neck brownish white barred with dusky ; sides of the 

 face and neck, and from the chin to the under tail-coverts (both 

 inclusive), dull white, slightly buff on the flanks and thighs, the ear- 

 coverts ochreous brown, the whole being barred evenly with black ; 

 under wing-coverts huffy white, with a dusky spot near the base of 

 the primaries. Total length 3"7 inches, culmcn 0*53, wing 2"15, 

 tail 1-25, tarsus 0"Oo; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'43, 

 outer posterior 0*43, inner anterior 0'32, inner posterior 0"28. 



Adult female. Wants the red on the head, the forehead and crown 

 being spotted with white like the occiput and nape. In other re- 

 spects it resembles the adult male. Total length 3'6 inches, eulmen 

 0-5, wing 2-1, tail 1-15, tarsus 0'5. 



Hub. Eastern Brazil (Provinces of Bahia and llio Janeiro), and 

 ranging westward into Paraguay. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



h, c. S ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



P. azarce of Gray's List, p. 24. 



e,f- c? 2 ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



g. (5 imm. sk. Baliia, Brazil ( Wucherer). Sclater Coll. 



k. cJ' ad. sk. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Rio de Janeiro (J. Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



k,l.(S; m. 2 Novo Fribourgo, Brazil {J. Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. Youds) . 



8. Picumnus spilogaster. 



YuDX miuutissima, G7)i. S^/sf. Nat. i. p. 423 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 230 (1819) ; id. Gal. Ois. i. pi. xxviii. 



(1825); Less. Traite, i. p. 232 (1831), pt. 

 Piciis minimus, Shau' i^ Nodd. Nat. Miscell. ii. pi. xliv. (1790). 

 Picus minutus {no7i Litin.), Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 243 (1790) ; Steph. 



Gen. Zool. ix. p. p. 211, pi. xxxvi. (1815). 

 lyux minutissima, Licht. Cat. Rer. Hamb. p. 16 (1793). 

 Picus minutissimus, Temm. St/st. Cat. p. 64 (1807). 

 Yuux cayennensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 172 (1826). 

 Picumnus minutissimus, Neuweid, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 378 



(1832). 

 Piculus minutus (non Linn.), Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, N.Ann. Mus. 1832, 



p. 397. 

 Picumnus cayennensis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, pp. 6, 111 (pt.). 

 Picumnus spilogaster, Sundev. Consp.Av. Picin. p. 100 (1866) ; Gray, 



List Picid. Brit. Mtis. p. 26 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 179, 



no. 8511 (1870). 



Adult female. Resembles P. cirrhatus on the upper parts, but 

 differs below ; the chin, throat, and chest, only, being barred with 

 black, and this more narrowly ; the breast and remaining under- 

 parts having drop-like spots of black, the breast-feathers having the 

 apical margin dusky, the flanks and thighs transversely spotted ; 



