20 PICID^E. 



strongly tinged with orange ; bill and feet black : whole length 6-8 inches, wing 

 4-1, tail 2*3. Female similar, but without the red spot on the crown. 



Hob. Bolivia and Northern Argentina. 



Prof. Burmeister met with three specimens of this Woodpecker at 

 Capellan, south-west of Catamarca. White obtained examples of both 

 sexes in Catamarca, and found it tolerably abundant in that province. 

 " Three or four are usually observed together on a large cactus, but on 

 being disturbed either take to another cactus or to the lofty branches 

 of algaroba- trees/' 



In Entrerios Mr. Barrows tells us this species is more common than 

 P. mixtus, but abundant only on the Gualeguaychu, about twenty 

 miles west of Concepcion. 



253. CHLORONERPES AFFINIS (WagU 

 (ALLIED WOODPECKER.) 



Chloronerpes affinis, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 99; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 617 

 (Salta). 



Description. Above dull olive-green, with fine yellowish shaft-spots ; wings 

 and tail black, spotted with white ; head black, bordered behind by a yellow 

 nuchal collar, front of head with white shaft-spots, hinder half with scarlet 

 ends to the feathers : beneath greyish white, with narrow black cross bands ; 

 under surface of wings white, barred with black : whole length 6-5 inches, wing 

 3- 7, tail 2-4. Female similar, hut without any red on the nape. 



Hob. Brazil. 



White identified a pair of birds obtained at Campo Santo, in Salta, 

 as belonging to this species, but his determination requires confirmation, 

 as there are several forms of this genus nearly alike which require 

 accurate discrimination. 



254. CHLORONERPES FRONTALIS, Cab. 



(RED-FRONTED WOODPECKER.) 

 Chloronerpes (Campias) frontalis, Cab. Journ.f. Orn. 1883, p. 110. 



Description. Like C. maculifrons (Spix), hut larger ; red of head darker and 

 broader, and without any golden-yellow border ; beneath darker and more 

 thickly cross-banded, with the bright bands narrower. 



Hob. Tucuman. 



This little-known species is one of Herr Fritz Schulz's discoveries in 

 the mountain-forests of Tucuman. 



