54+ nciD^. 



24. Picumnus buffoni. 



Tres petit pic de Cayenne, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 37 (1780) ; 



Davhent. PL Enl. no. 786 ; Bodd. Tahl. PL EnL p. 49, no. 786 



(1783). 

 I'icuamus rainutissimus, Temm. PL CoL livr. 62", Picumn. sp. 1 (1825). 

 Picumnus buffoni, Lafr. Rev. ZooL 1845, pp. 6, 9 ; Gra;/, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 432 (1845) ; Bp. Comp. Gen. Av. i. p. 140 (1850)"; id. Consp. 



Valuer. Zyqod. p. 11, no. 245 (1854) ; Reiclienb. Sca?is. Picincc, 



p. 344, no.'782, pi. dcxvi. fig. 4111, d (1854); Sclat. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 330, no. 1967 (1862) (pt.) ; Cah. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 23 



(1863) ; Sinidev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 99 (1866) ; Graij, List 



Picid. Brit. Mm. p. 25 (1868) ; id. Hand-L B. ii. p. 179, no. 8505 



(1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 442 (1870). 

 Picumnu?! guttatus, Reichenh. Scans. Picime, p. 344, no. 784, pi. dcxvii. 



figs. 4114-5 (1854). 

 Picumnus exilis {non Licht.), Malh. Picidce, ii. pi. cxvi. figs. 5 (5 , 6 $ 



(not text) (1862). 

 Picumnus guttifer (non Sundev.), Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 26 



(1868) ; id. Hand-L B. ii. p. 179, no. 8513 (1870). 



Adult male, liesembles P. minutus, but differs in having the back 

 and scapulars spotted with white or yellowish white, the spots 

 being partially margined with black ; the upper parts duller in 

 colour, the feathers wanting the yellow margins ; the wing-coverts 

 with longitudinal and somewhat triangular spots of white edged 

 with black, and without the black subapical spot. Total length 

 3 inches, culmen 0-43, wing 1-95, tail 1, tarsus 0-47 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-4, outer posterior 0-4, inner anterior 0-27, 

 inner posterior 0"2. 



Young male. Differs from the adult female in having the top of 

 the head dusky, not black, the forehead and crown with bars and 

 transverse spots of smoky white, the occiput and nape having stripe- 

 like spots of dull white ; the spots on the upper parts rather larger 

 and of a dull yellow. 



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 inches, culmen 0-48, wing 2-05, tail 1-05, tarsus 0-5. 



Hab. Cayenne. 



a. 9 ad. sk. [Brazil.] Purchased. 



b. cS ad. sk. [Brazil.] J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



P. guttifer of Gray's List, p. 26. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



d. cS ad.sk. Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. f. (S ad. et juv. R.'Ovapock, Cavenne (Jelski). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. 



25. Picumnus punctifrons. 



Picumnus aurifrons (won Pelz.), Tacz. P. Z. IS. 1874, p. 546, 1882, 



p. 42. 

 Picumnus punctifrons, Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 65 (1886). 



Adult male, liesembles P. aurifrons in having the sincipital 

 feathers tipped with golden yellow, but differs in having the hinder 



