FAMILY PICIDAE 581 



CAMPEPHILUS HAEMATOGASTER SPLENDENS Hargitt: 

 Crimson-bellied Woodpecker, Carpintero Real Carminoso 



Campophilus splendens Hargitt, Ibis, ser. 6, vol. 1, January 1889, p. 58. (Puerto 

 Valdivia, Antioquia, Colombia.) 



Large ; crown and lower back red ; upper back and wings black. 



Description. — Length 285-345 mm. Tenth, outermost, primary 

 long and broad. Adult male, crown except forehead, crest, and neck 

 red ; lower back and rump also red with the feathers basally barred 

 with white and black ; upper back, wings, and tail somewhat bronzy 

 black; a broad band of black from the forehead across the side of 

 the head through the eyes, bordered narrowly with buff above the 

 auricular region; below this a broad line of buff to white from 

 the base of the nostrils to below the auricular region; chin, upper 

 throat, and feathers on base of mandible black, the latter area with a 

 central spot of red; lower foreneck and upper breast red; rest of 

 breast, abdomen, and sides tipped with red, the feathers basally 

 dusky, barred narrowly with buff ; under tail coverts black, tipped with 

 red; under wing coverts, axillars, and broad spots on inner webs 

 of remiges yellowish buff. 



Adult female, like male, but forecrown somewhat mixed with 

 black, and entire foreneck black; the broad buff band on the side of 

 the head extended down the sides of the neck. 



Juvenile, dull blackish brown on lower surface, with the bases 

 of the feathers more narrowly barred. 



An adult female, taken on Cerro Tacarcuna, Darien, February 28, 

 1964, had the iris reddish brown; bare skin around the eye dull 

 black; bill black; tarsus and toes fuscous-black; claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Darien and northwestern Co- 

 lombia), wing 178-187 (183.1), tail 90.5-102.7 (96.9), culmen from 

 base 45.5-51.0 (48.0), tarsus 35.5-37.8 (36.9) mm. 



Females (10 from Darien and northwestern Colombia), wing 

 176-187 (181.7), tail 89.3-103.4 (96.2), culmen from base 44.1-50.1 

 (46.6), tarsus 35.9-37.9 (37.0) mm. 



Resident. Rather rare in heavy forest in Darien, from the lowlands 

 to 1,580 meters on Cerro Pirre, and 1,450 meters on Cerro Tacar- 

 cuna; recorded also on the Caribbean slope from Bocas del Toro 

 at Buena Vista on the old Boquete Trail, and the lowland shores of 

 Laguna de Chiriqui ; from Calovevora, northern Veraguas ; also from 

 the Rio Boqueron near Peluca Hydrographic Station, eastern Prov- 



