404 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



& Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 208; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 401 (1882). 



Geopicus arator, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-1849, 

 p. 359 ; id. Monogr. Picidse, ii. p. 274, pi. cxi. figs. 1, 2 

 (1862). 



Geocolaptes arator, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 113 (1850); 

 Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, p. 429, pi. dclxxvii. figs. 

 4477-4479; Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854). 



Adult male. Above pale dusky olive, faintly spotted with 

 dingy vrhite ; lesser wing-coverts dusky olive, tipped with 

 dull crimson ; the median and greater series darker than the 

 back and spotted with whitish ; quills dusky brown, the 

 outer webs more or less edged with olive, and partially or 

 entirely barred with whitish ; the inner webs spotted or par- 

 tially barred with pure white ; shafts golden brown ; rump 

 crimson ; upper tail-coverts dull yellowish olive, narrowly 

 barred with whitish ; tail olive-brown, narrowly barred with 

 buffy white and tipped with orange, inclining to crimson ; 

 shafts rich brown ; lores and side of the face ashy ; forehead, 

 crown, occiput, and side of the neck ashy with a slight olive 

 tinge, the feathers of the latter faintly tipped with whitish ; 

 hind neck like the back, but uniform ; cheek-feathers tipped 

 with dull crimson, and forming a faint malar stripe ; chin 

 and throat whitish, more dusky on the fore neck; under- 

 parts cream-colour washed with crimson ; the margins of the 

 feathers of the lower breast deeper crimson and having a 

 striped appearance ; flanks and thighs whitish, the feathers 

 edged with cream-colour or dingy pale buff and barred with 

 pale dusky olive ; under tail-coverts pale buff", slightly washed 

 with crimson and barred with light dusky olive ; under wing- 

 coverts dusky olive, barred with whitish; axillaries dusky, 

 barred with light bufi'y brown ; " bill black ; tarsus black ; 

 iris orange ^^ {T. E. Buckley). Total length 9"8 inches, cul- 

 men 1*5, wing 5*3, tail 3*7, tarsus I'O; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0*78, outer posterior 0*78, inner anterior 0*55, 

 inner posterior 0'4. 



Mr. Ayres gives the soft parts as follows : — Iris light 

 ashy brown ; bill black ; tarsi and feet light ash-colour. 



