46, picuMNus. 537 



15. PicTimnus pygmseus. 



Picus pygmseus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. pp. 11, 12, note (1823). 

 Picumniis ocellatus, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 646 ; Malh. Piciclce, ii. p. 280 



(1862) ; Szmdev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 97 (1866) ; Gray, List Picid. 



Brit. Mm. p. 28 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 180, no. 8528 (1870) ; 



Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 442 (1870). 

 Picumnus pygm.ieus, Grat/, Gen. B. ii. p. 432, pi. 107, cJad. (1845) ; 



Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, pp. 7, 111 ; Bj). Cunsp. Gen. Av. i. p. 140 



(1850) ; Reichenb. Scans. PicineB, p. 344, no. 785, pi. cxvii. figs. 



4117-18, d cJ (1854); Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 247 (1856) ; Malh. 



Picidcp, ii. p. 285, pi. cxv. figs. 3c?ad., 4$ad., 5c? juv. (1862) ; 



Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 330, no. 1968 (1862) ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. 



Hein. iv. p. 23 (1863) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Cull. p. 382, no. 1865 



(1882). 

 Piculus pygmseus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zycjod. p. 11, no. 246 (1854). 



Adult mule. Above and below entirely brown, spotted with white, 

 the spots more or less round and partially encircled with black, 

 more particularly on the underparts ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills brown, the secondaries externally margined with ochreous 

 brown, the inner webs of the quills margined with dull bufFy white, 

 the shafts brownish black ; upper tail-coverts white, margined with 

 dusky brown ; tail typical ; nasal plumes buffy white, tipped with 

 black ; top of the head, occiput, and nape black, the sincipital 

 feathers tipped with scarlet, the remainder spotted with white ; 

 sides of the face and neck brown, the ear- coverts striped, the re- 

 mainder spotted with white; under wing-coverts pale buff, with a 

 dusky brown spot near the base of the primaries. Total length 35 

 inches, culmen 0-47, wing 1-97, tail 1-1, tarsus 0-48 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-37, outer posterior 0'37, inner anterior 0-28, 

 inner posterior O'lS. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the top of the head, this being entirely black, spotted with white. 

 Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2, tail 1-18, tarsus 0-48. 



Young. Have the top of the head dusky brown, with almost 

 obsolete paler brown transverse spots ; the body, both above and 

 below, is of a paler and more rufescent brown, the chin is whiter, 

 the fore neck, chest, and middle of the breast have elongated and 

 somewhat triangular spots of buffy white, not margined with black, 

 the spots on the wing-coverts being similar ; the underparts below 

 the breast are bufty brown, with darker brown bars. 



Hah. Eastern Erazil (provinces of Bahia and liio Janeiro). 



a. 5 ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



b. 6 ad. sk. Brazil. Old Coll. 



c. <^. c?; e. 5 ad. Bahia {Dr. Wiicherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. 



f,ff. d-, h,i- 2 I^ahia. Sr-later Coll. 



ad. sk. 



h. S\ V"- 2 ad. Novo Fribourgo, Brazil (/. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. Youds'). 



