'476 Catalogue of a Collection of Birds. 



adjoining which is a rather broad collar (half an inch in width) of 

 bright scarlet ; under plumage bright green, of a golden tinge on the 

 breast and under tail coverts ; a large patch of deep scarlet on the sides 

 under the wings ; under lining of wings and inner edges of quills blue ; 

 bill yellowish white ; feet j'ellow. 



Length 9 in. ; wing b% ; tail 3 ; bill following the curve 1 ; tarsi \. 



The female (or possibly the young) differs only in having the 

 collar quite indistinct. 



The specimen of this species, enumerated in Part I., I sup- 

 pose to be a female, as the collar is not well defined. I then 

 felt quite well satisfied of its distinctness from Mr. Sclater's P. 

 hminatotis^ but preferred waiting for more before deciding it to 

 be so. The pair now received, with the conspicuous scarlet 

 collar of the male, puts all doubt of its being distinct at rest. 

 As stated at page 299, there is no appearance of the dark red 

 margins to the feathers of the crown, which seems a strong cha- 

 racter in hcematotis. 



Fam. PICID^. 



SUBFAM. PICINiE. 



3t7. Chloronerpes cai!opterii§, sp. nov. 



Male. Head above dark olive-brown with a broad occipital scarlet 

 band ; back and wings golden olive ; rump dark olive-green ; tail brown, 

 bordered with olive, and without spots or bars; the outer feather pale 

 cinnamon color in the middle on each side of the shaft, the next feather 

 marked more narrowly in the same manner ; the quills are bright cin- 

 namon with spots and bars of black rather sparingly distributed, the 

 primaries are brownish-black at their ends, most so on the outer ones ; 

 the secondaries and tertiaries are broadly margined with golden olive ; 

 a band of pale yellow runs from the bill along the side of the head 

 under the eye, below which is a band of olive-brown ; throat pale ful- 

 vous with dusky spots ; breast olive green, with triangular spots of pale 

 yellow ; abdomen light yellow with transverse black bars ; lower part 

 of abdomen and under tail-coverts pale rufous ; bill dark plumbeous, 



