1870. ] MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. 213 
Judging from Mr. Lawrence’s description of C. eallopterus (Ann. 
Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 476), this species would seem to be allied to the 
bird there described ; but the characters given, such as the presence 
of “a yellow band from the bill, along the side of the head, under the 
eye, below which is a band of olive-brown; throat pale fulvous with 
dusky spots, and lower part of abdomen and under tail-coverts pale 
rufous,’ seem to preclude the possibility of the bird I now describe 
being the female of C. callopterus. 
Chloronerpes cecilia. 
Mina de Chorcha. 
155. MELANERPES CHRYSAUCHEN, Sp. n. 
Supra niger, dorso medio et uropygio albis, illo nigro maculato : 
loris, fronte et nucha flavis, pileo medio coccineo: alis nigris, 
intus albo notatis, cauda nigra: subtus albidus, flavo lavatus, 
ventre medio coccineo, hypochondriis et crisso nigro transfa- 
sciatis: rostro et pedibus plumbeis: long. tota 6°5, ale 4:5, 
caude 2°5, rostri a rictu 1*1, tarsi 0°7, dig. med. cum ung. 
0°95. 
Fem. mari similis, sed pileo medio vitta nigra transfasciato, colore 
coccineo absente. 
Hab. Bugaba (Arcé). 
Obs. M. flavifronti Vieill. similis, sed loris et nucha flavis, ventre 
imo solum coccineo facile distinguendus. 
This well-marked species, of which Arcé has sent specimens of 
both sexes, seems certainly more nearly allied to the Brazilian M. 
flavifrons than to its nearer neighbours M. cruentatus and M. rubri- 
Jrons. From M. flavifrons it may be easily distinguished by the 
broader black band behind the eye, and by the lores being entirely 
yellow instead of black. Moreover in the present bird the throat is 
not so clear a yellow, and the red is confined to the lower belly and 
does not spread over the whole central portion of the abdomen. 
156. MeLaNeRPEs Formicivorus (Sw.); Scl. Cat. Am. B. 
p- 341. 
V. de Chiriqui. 
A single male specimen agrees with Costa-Rican, Guatemalan, and 
Mexican skins. Sundevall (Consp. Av. Pic. p. 51), following Mal- 
herbe, gives Panama as a locality for M. flavigularis, Scl. This I 
conceive to be an error, as no specimen of it has been yet sent by the 
collectors on the Isthmus ; moreover this form of Melanerpes is only 
found in the highlands, M. formicivorus seldom descending below 
an elevation of 5000 feet above the sea-level. 
Centurus tricolor. 
Calovevora ; Castillo ; Chitra. 
157. Ara miviraris (L.); Finsch, Papag. i. p. 396. 
Calovevora. 
