578 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



CAMPEPHILUS MELANOLEUCOS MALHERBII G. R. Gray: 

 Malherbe's Woodpecker, Carpintero Real Barbinegro 



Campephilus malherbii G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. 2, 1845, [p. 436], pi. 108. 

 (Bogota, Colombia.) 



Large, crested ; male with a prominent white spot at the base of 

 the bill ; female with a broad white band on the side of the head; bill 

 dark, in life appearing nearly black; under surface strongly barred 

 with buff and black. 



Description. — Length 330-360 mm. Outer hind toe longer than 

 outer front toe; tenth, outermost, primary more than half the total 

 length of the wing. Adult male, nasal tufts, anterior lores, and spot 

 on side of base of mandible white to pale yellow ; spot on side of head 

 over auricular area with upper half black, lower half white; in most 

 individuals a narrow black line across forehead (faint or absent in 

 some) ; rest of head, including cheeks and crest bright red (the con- 

 cealed bases of the feathers white) ; hindneck, back, scapulars, and 

 wing coverts black ; wings, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail brownish 

 black ; outer webs and tips of primaries edged with dull white ; a 

 conspicuous stripe on either side of hindneck and upper back white ; 

 entire foreneck, sides of neck, and upper breast black ; rest of under 

 surface pale cinnamon-buff to tawny, broadly barred with black ; edge 

 of wing, under tail coverts, and inner webs of primaries and second- 

 aries pale yellow to yellowish white. 



Adult female, forecrown, center of crest, and sides of head black, 

 except for a broad white stripe on lower portion, and a narrower 

 white line behind the eye and on the side of the nape. 



Juvenile male, like female, but with side of the head red (the 

 feathers black basally), and black of the crown less in extent; red 

 of head paler. 



Juvenile female, like adult but with red of head paler. 



A male taken on the Rio Boqueron, near the Peluca Hydrographic 

 Station, Panama, February 25, 1961, had the iris honey yellow; bill 

 dark neutral gray, except for the base of the maxilla below and a 

 little forward of the nostrils, and the upper half of the base of the 

 mandible, which shade into paler neutral gray; tarsus and toes pale 

 greenish slate ; claws dark neutral gray. 



A female, taken with the male described above was similar to its 

 companion. Another female, collected along the Rio Guanico, near 

 Las Palmitas, Los Santos, January 26, 1962, had the iris bright 

 yellow ; bare skin around the eye fuscous, with faint, indefinite gray- 

 ish reticulations; base of maxilla below level of nostril, and basal 



