Balanosphyra formicivora formicivora (STft-ainson) 

 Picus melanopo^on Tenminck Type 



No. IQ^UU. Collection - Berlin. V/ing 13^.5^ tail 

 75.5, culmen 25.5, tarsus 22.0, middle toe 'minus 

 claw 17.5. Deppe. Xalapa. 



Picus formicivorus Sw, 

 Tern. 1827 

 Xalapa 105U Deppe S, 



Mounted bird in fair condition. An adult female; 

 plumage fresh as though taken in early fall just after 

 the post- Juvenal moult. 



Lichtenstein had three birds from Mexico, the types 

 , of his Picus melampogon (Preiz-Verz Mex. Vttg. , 1830 

 ] p. 1). These birds are still in the Berlin Museum ' 

 numbered 105^2, U3> and U respectively. One of these 

 (Planches Col., IV, livr. 76, March, 1828, pi. ^51 and 

 text) was figured as the type of " Picus .-nelanopogon Licht" 

 supposedly a male, but actually a fe.-nale. Number 105U ' 

 best fits the plate in fact matches it exactly and is 

 therefore the type. The other two birds in the Berlin 

 Museum are from Xalapa ($) and Temascaltepec (d) (by 

 Deppe) respectively. 



Examined by me at Berlin August 31, I933. 



Note: Temminck's text, while stating that Lichtenstein 

 had sent to him a specimen, indicates that the bird 

 figured was retained in the Collection at Leyden. 

 Possibly so - if no type there - then I am correct in 

 supposing the above bird the type. 



A. J. Van Rossem *^^, 



