4G. picTJiixus. 545 



part of the crown, occiput, and nape black spotted with pure white; 

 the entire underparts are barred with olive-black, the ground- 

 colour being yellow ; the upper parts and scapulars are deeper olive 

 barred with dull yellowish olive ; the greater series of wing-coverts 

 have an apical white spot, and within this and joining it a spot of 

 dusky black : " irides grey " (Stolzmaim). Total length 3 inches, 

 ciilmen 0-48, wiug 2-05, tail 1, tarsus 0-48; toes (without claws)— 

 outer anterior 0-35, outer posterior 0-35, inner anterior 0-23, inner 

 posterior 0-15. 



Adult female. " Differs only from the male in having the spots on 

 the forehead white, like the remainder of the top of the head. Total 

 length 3-7 inches, wing 1-94, tail 0-92, bill 0-52, tarsus 0-43." 

 {Taczanoifslci.) 



Young, in first phimage. " Differ from the adult in having the 

 back of a browner tint, the margins of the feathers reddish olive ; the 

 spots on the top of the head ochreous white ; the throat with scarcely 

 any dark bars ; the bars on the abdomen more broken ; the margins 

 of the secondary and tertiary quills less striking." (Taczanowski.) 



Hub. Central aud Xorth-east Peru (Monterico and Huambo). 



a. d ad. sk. Huamho, Peru, Feb. (/. Stokmann). Sclater Coll. 



26. Picumnus lafresnayii. 



(1 



Picumnus lafresnayi, Sunclev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 100 (1866) ; Tacz. 

 S; Berl. P. Z. S. ISSo, p. 106 ; Tacz. Orn. Pcruu, iii. p. 70 (1886)*. 



Adult male. Differs from P. minutus in wanting the blackish 

 spots above, the upper parts being deep olive with diiQ yellowish 

 bars ; the wing-coverts brownish olive with yellowish-olive margins, 

 and without any spots of black or white ; the olive-yellow external 

 margins to the secondaries are broken by dusky spots : the top of the 

 head, occiput, and nape are deep umber-brown, the sincii)ital feathers 

 very minutely tipped with scarlet, the remaining parts being spotted 

 with white, but the spots are more or less surrounded with black ; 

 underparts less yellow, and the bars fewer and broader ; the 

 dimensions are rather less. Total length 3 inches, culmen 0-43, 

 wing 1-9, tail 0-87, tarsus 0-45; toes (without claws) — outer ante- 

 rior 0-35, outer posterior 0-35, inner anterior 0-25, inner posterior 

 0-15. 



* Dr. Taczanowski gives P. huffoni of Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S. 1866, 

 p. 19(), 187.3, p. 291, as a synonym of the present species. The specimens 

 mentioned in the above papers were collected by Jlr. Edward Bartlett in Peru, 

 and are not P. lafresnai/ii ; they may be known from the latter by the male hav- 

 ing the sincipital feathers tipped with yellow, and it is upon Mr. Bartlett's 

 birds that I have founded my new species P. Jlavifrons. We have no authentic 

 record of P. lafrcsnaijii being found in Peru. 



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