COLAPTES LONGIROSTRIS. 



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The eggs are white, four or five in number, pear-shaped, and with 

 polished shells. 



White obtained specimens of this Woodpecker in Catamarca, and 

 Mr. Barrows found it resident in Entrerios. The latter tells us it is 

 " abundant in the woods everywhere, and conspicuous for its activity, 

 bright colours, and large size/'' 



258. LEUCONERPES CANDIDUS (Otto). 

 (WHITE-BELLIED WOODPECKER.) 



Leuconerpes Candidas, JBurm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 445 (Parana, Cordova) ; 

 Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 100 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1880, p. 361 (Salta) ; White, P. Z. S. 

 1882, p. 618 (Misiones) ; Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 25 (Entrerios). 



Description. Above white ; wings and upper back, with a line on each side 

 running up to the eye, black ; nape tinged with yellow : beneath white ; tail 

 black, with white cross bands : whole length 11-0 inches, wing 5-5, tail 4'5. 

 Female similar, but without the yellow on the nape. 



Hob. S. Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Northern Argentina. 



Prof. Burmeister met with this peculiarly coloured Woodpecker near 

 Parana, and Mr. Barrows found it resident in Entrerios, though not 

 very abundant. 



White speaks of this species as follows : <( These noisy birds, 

 abundant in various parts of Misiones as well as in the rest of the north 

 of the Republic, go about in flocks of eight or ten, and settle on the 

 same tree, which they proceed to ascend very comically in a spiral or 

 corkscrew fashion, each head touching the preceding tail. They are 

 not seen in dense forests, but only out in the open, on some old, 

 usually dead, tree, and I think I observed them as far south as the 

 sierras of Cordoba/ 7 



259. COLAPTES LONGIROSTKIS, Cab. 

 (LONG-BILLED WOODPECKER.) 



Colaptes longirostris, Cabanis, Journ.f. Orn. 1883, p. 97. 

 Description. Similar to 0. rupicola, d'Orb., but with the bill much longer. 



Hab. Tucuman. 



This is a southern form of the Brazilian C. rupicola, which has been 

 recently described by Dr. Cabanis. Herr Schulz obtained a single male 

 example of this species in Tucuman. Like C. rupicola it has red 



