•186 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



33G. Melanerpes rubrifrons. 



Red-froxted Woodpecker. 



Picks ruhrifrons Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 61. pi. 55. figs. 1. 2. 1824 (Para). 

 Melanerpes ruhrifrons Salvin, Ibi.s, 1SS6, p. 59 (Baitica Grove, Cama- 



cusa, Meinime Mts., Atapnrau Eiverl ; Harsritt. Cat. B. Bi-it. Mns. 



xviii. p. 157, 1890 ; Bra bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 171, 



no. 1704, 1912. 



Adult mole. Glossy blue-black on tlie upper back, \\ings, tail, 

 throat, and breast ; middle of the crown and centre of abdomen 

 red ; sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts white barred 

 with black; lower back. rump, and upper tail-coverts buffy- white ; 

 quills notched with white on the inner webs towards the base ; 

 middle tail-feathers edged more or less with white on the inner 

 web ; inner webs of outer tail-ftathers barred with white at the 

 tips. 



Total length 177 ram., culmen 25, wing 111. tail 53, tarsus 19. 



The male from which the description is raken was collected 

 at Bartica. 



According to the ' Catalogue of Birds ■* the female differs from 

 the adult male in the absence of the red spot on the crown of the 

 head. 



Breeding- sea so a. Unknown in British Guiana. 



2i^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Abary River (McConnell collection^; 

 Kainaranj^ River, Kamakusa, Merume Mountains, Bartica 

 ( ]V]ateh/'). 



Extralimital Range. Xorth, Xorth-east, and East Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus VENILIORNIS Bonap. 



Veniliornis Bonaparte, Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10, 1854. Tvpe 

 Y. sanguineus (Licht.). 



In this genus the chin-angle is on a line with the anterior part 

 of the nostrils, and the tarsus is longer than the outer posterior 

 toe without claw. 



