1891.1 RiKER AND Chapman, Birds at Sautan'm, Ihazi'l. ?! 



rem birds these feathers are hlack with two white apical s]>ots. From the 

 southern form of C. fiinctigiila, C. /. ptntctifectus (Cab. cS: Hein.*) it 

 may be distinijuished by its darker coloration and by the same char- 

 acters in the pattern of the throat feathers which separate it from C. putic 

 it'i^iila. C//ryso/>tiliis spect'osus Sc\. (= C. pu/ict/pecfus Tacz. , Orn. Peru, 

 III, p. SS, »ec Cab. & Heine.) I have not seen ; it is evidently closely re- 

 lated to, but larger than, the Lower Amazonian form. The Pi'cus gntta- 

 tiis of Spix, described from the Amazon, has by authors been synonymized 

 with the earlier Picus functignla (Bodd.). While Spix's description is 

 not sufllciently detailed to render certain the form he had in hand, the 

 locality he gives, "/« sylvis fl. Amazouum" makes it extremely probable 

 his specimens were similar to the Santarem bird. 



Measurements (in inches) of four forms are appended. 



Wing 



C. prniciigjda, Venezuela, J ^T-I. 4.42 



C. p. pHucfiprrtits, Rio, 9 ^^- 4-48 



C. gut/a fits, Santarem, J ad. 4.28 



$ im. 3.97 



C. .«/<'f/t)5«5, Upper Amazon, ^ ad. 4.71 



146. Melanerpes cruentatus {Bodd.). — Common about plantations in 

 the lowlands, puncturing holes in oranges. 



147. Celeus ochraceus (Spi'x). — A female taken June. 18S7, near the 

 river. 



148. Celeus citrinus {Bodd.). — A male taken June 16, and a female, 

 July 5, 1887. Feet and feathers covered with a sticky substance in which 

 were matted quantities of ants. The only reason for this I can advance 

 is that they enter the nests of wild bees in quest of young bees or honev 



[The male is quite different from Guianan specimens and has on\y the 

 inner half of the inner web of the secondaries brown; the female, how- 

 ever, has the whole inner web and inner half of the outer web brown, 

 while the outer and median secondaries are wholly' brown. If separable 

 as a form from the Guianan bird the synonym)' might stand as follows : 

 Picus flavicans Spix, Av. Bras., I, p. 60, pi. li, fig. 2, »ec Pirns /iavicatis 

 Lath , Ind. Orn., I, p. 2^0= Pic//s citrimisV>OT>D., Tabl. Enl. p. 30, No. 

 509. 



( To be CO?? eluded.) 



* Mus. Hein., IV, 1863, p. 163. 

 t Tacz., Orn. Peru, III, p. 88. 



