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CAPITONID^. 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a streak down each 

 side of the mantle, formed by yellowish-white edges to the feathers ; 

 lower back and rump black, all the feathers edged with olive- 

 yellow ; wing-coverts black, with a band of ochreous white across the 

 greater series ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, edged 

 with olive-brown, the inner secondaries with a mark of ochreous 

 white towards the end of the outer web ; upper tail-coverts and 

 t&il-feathers olive-brown, with blackish centres or shafts ; forehead 

 scarlet, followed by a band of straw-yellow, the hinder crown and 

 nape black mottled with brown, with an eyebrow of pale yellow 

 flanking the hind crown ; lores, feathers round eye, ear-coverts, sides 

 of face, and sides of neck black ; cheeks and throat rich scarlet, the 

 chin yellowish ; fore neck and under surface of body pale sulphur- 

 yellow, the sides of the breast with ovate spots of black ; sides of 

 body and flanks browner, with less distinct black centres to the 

 feathers ; thighs whitish in front, brown behind ; under tail-coverts 

 yellowish,, crossed with dusky bands ; under wing-coverts white 

 washed with ochreous buff; quills below dusky ochreous along 

 the inner edge. Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-2, 

 tail 2, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Like the male, but with the lesser and median 

 wing-coverts edged with yellow, and scarcely any trace of a whitish 

 bar across the greater coverts, the fore neck and chest thickly 

 mottled with black spots instead of being uniform yellow. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 2-15, tail 1"85, tarsus 0-85. 



Ilab. Guiana. 



a,b. J 5 ad. Bartica Grove, British Guiana, Salvln-Godman Coll. 



Sept., Nov. (II. Whitely). 



c. 5 ad. sk. Atapurow River, Jan. 26 (H. Sa'vin-Godman Coll. 



Whitely). 



d. c? ad. sk. Maroni River, Surinam (Knp- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



pier), 

 e-g. S 2 ad. sk. Cayenne. 

 h. (S ad. sk. Cayenne. Riocour Coll. 



(Named C. ruhricolli.^ by Vieillot, ) 



6. Capito punctatus. 



Capito punctatus, Less. Traite, p. 165 (1831) ; Girn/, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 4.?0(]846). 

 Capito aurifrons, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 3; Grni/, Gen. B. ii. p. 430 



(1846). 

 Micropogon flavieollis, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 120. 

 Bueco punctatus, Des Murs, Iconogr. Oni. pi. 20 (1846). 

 Capito flavieollis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 480 (1846). 

 Micropogon auricoUis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 12 (1854). 

 Micropogon aurifrons, Bp. f. r. p. 12 (1854). 

 Capito peruvianus {nee Cin\), Scl. P.Z.8. 1854, p. 115; id. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 329 (1862, pt.). 

 Capito auratus (nee Cuv.), Goffin, Mris. Pays-BaSjUuccones, p. 56 



(1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Miis. p. 20 (18(i8) ; Pelz. Om. 



Bras. p. 239 (1871); Scl. ^- Salr. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 298; iid. 



