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22. Picumnus minutus *. 



Pipia minuta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 340 (17(16). 



Picas exilis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 11 (1823) ; Biirm, Th. Bras. ii. 



p. 24Li (1850). 

 Asthenurus miuutus, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 353 (1828). 

 Picumnus cirratus (non Temtn.), War/l. Isis, 1829, p. 645. 

 Picumnus lichtensteinii, Lafr. liei\ Zool. 1845, p. 6. 

 Picumnus exilis, Lafr. Mev. Zool. 1845, p. Ill (pt.) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



ii. p. 432 (1845) ;■ C'«6. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 21 (1803). 

 Picumnus minutus, Bp. Consii. Volucr. Zygod. p. 11, no. 242 (1854); 



Sunder. Consp. Av. Ficin. p. 98 (1800) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 25(1868): id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 179, "no. 8504 (1870); 



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



p. 382, no. 1864 (1882). 

 Picumnus hypoxanthus, Reichenh. Scans. Picitire, p. 344, no. 783, 



pi. dcxvii. figs. 4112-3 (1854) ; Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 294, pi. cxix. 



ligs. 1, 2 (1802). 

 Picumnus guttatus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 295, pi. cxix. fig. 3 (1862). 

 Picumnus buffoni (pt.), Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 330, no. 1967 (1802). 



Adult male. Back, rump, and scapulars olive, the feathers having 

 yellow margins and' blackish spots; upper tail-coverts yellowish 

 white ; wing-coverts olive dusky with yellowish margins, and having 

 at the tip a yellowish-white and a black spot ; quills brownish 

 dusky, the outer webs of the secondaries and of the primaries at 

 the base margined with olive-yellow, inner webs of quills more or 

 less margined with whitish, the inner secondaries having whitish 

 tii)s and a subapical black spot ; shafts brownish black ; tail black, 

 tlie inner webs of the central pair of feathers white ; the two outer 

 large feathers on either side having a broad oblique white strijje 

 from the base of the outer web to the tip of the inner web ; shafts 

 of the same colour as the surrounding web, the base of those of the 

 central pair of feathers white ; nasal plumes bufty white tijiped with 

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

 tipped with orange-scarlet, the remainder minutely si)otted with 

 white ; face white, ear-coverts olive, side of the neck yellowish, the 

 whole being barred with black ; entire under surface of the body 

 and under tail-coverts yellow, the chin and upper throat whiter, 

 the whole being barred with black; under wing-coverts pale buff. 

 Total length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-05, tail 1-05, tarsus 0-5 ; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"37, outer posterior 0"37, 

 inner anterior 0*2, inner posterior 0*15. 



Adult female. Has no red upon the head, the forehead, crown, 

 and occiput being deep black spotted with pure white. Total length 

 3-2 inches, culmcn 0-5, wing 2, tail 1-15, tarsus 0-5. 



* I have examined the s]ieeiineus which Sundevall regarded as typical of 

 P. minutus of Liiina;us ; they are tlie yellow Brazilian bird, and, without 

 lirsitatiiin, I acpe])t Sundevall's decision, which would possibly be aided by 

 tiiuliiidii, instead of following Dr. Cabanis, who considers the less vividly 

 coloured Guiauan species to be the true P. minutus. 



