442 Hans von Berlepsch on a new Picumnus.i 



pallide rufescente extus marginatis ; rectricibus (ut rite) 

 nigris, duabus mediis intus flavo-albisj duabus latera- 

 libus, proximis vix, flavo-albo terminatis. 

 Long. tot. 102^ al. 56^^ caud. 35, culm, llf millim. 

 Obs. Sp. a speciebus cognitis, plumis occipitis valde elon- 

 gatis cristam pendulam formantibus, necnon dorso fere 

 immaculato brunneo, et abdomine ochraceo distincte nigro 

 striato, primo visu distinguenda, cetera P. lepidoto et P. injy- 

 mcBO affinis. 



Habitat in Prov. Rio Grande do Sul, Brasilia^ merid. 

 circum Taquara do Mundo novo collegit Dr. H. v. Jlieriug. 

 Specimen unicum typ. in Mus. H. v. Berlepscli asservatum. 

 The discovery of this interesting new species we owe to 

 Dr. Hermann von Jhering, who resided several years in 

 the colony Taquara do Mundo novo, in the northern 

 part of the province of Rio Grande do Sul. Through the 

 assiduity of this collector, I have received a great many 

 skins from this locality representing about 220 species, and 

 among them several of considerable rarity, such as Cephalo- 

 lepis loddigesi, Synallaxis cinerascens, S. ruticilla, Foi'micivora 

 malura, Dryocopus galeatus, and others. 



Dr. V. Jhering is about to continue his researches in the 

 southern part of the province, viz. in the neighbourhood 

 of the city of Rio Grande. Wishing him every success, I 

 am glad to name this new species after him, partly in 

 acknowledgment of his successful researches, and partly in 

 memory of our old friendship, dating from university times. 



P. jheringi, as will be seen from the diagnosis, will hardly 

 compare with any other species of Picumnus, standing 

 alone in possessing long, hanging, black, white-tipped crest- 

 feathers on the occiput. The species seems to be somewhat 

 rare about Taquara, Dr. v. Jhering having only obtained 

 one specimen, while he sent me a good series of another 

 species, viz. P. temmincki, Lafr., which abounds there. 

 Mueuden, June 1884. 



