490 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



340. Celeus hellmaTri. 

 Hellmaye's "Woodpecker. 



Celeus TieUmayri Berlepsch, Nov. Zool, xv. p. 272, 190S rBritish Guiana) ; 



Brabourne &. Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 175, no. 174fi. 1912. 

 Celeus cinnamomeus (nee Gmel.), Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. 



p. 715. 1^8 ; Salvin, Ibis. 1SS6, p. 59 (CamaciLsa, Bartica Grove). 

 Celeus reichenbachi Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 427, 1890 



(CamacvLsa, Bartica Grove, Quonga, Takutu Elver). 



Adult male. General colour chestnut-brown, including the 

 head^ neck, upper back, wings, throat, breast, and middle of the 

 abdomen, paler and more cinnamon on the head and elongated 

 nuchal crest ; the feathers of the back and upper \ving-coverts 

 have pale triangular spots on the shaft-lines ; marginal upper 

 wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts blacki.«h, with 

 pale markings ; inner webs of quills blackish, with rufous or 

 citron-yellow bars; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, sides of 

 bodv, under wing-coverts, and base of quill-lining citron-vellow, 

 more or less tinged with chestnut ; tail black ; vent and under 

 tail-coverts paler than the abdomen ; malar patch red. 



Total length 26'o mm., culmen 26, wing 160, tail 97, tarsus 25. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but differs chiefly in 

 the absence of the red malar patch. Wing 160 mm. 



The male described was collected on the Kamakabra River and 

 the female on the Warima River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takntu Mountain.?, Supenaam 

 River, Bonasika River, Abary River {McConnell collection) ; 

 Quonga, Takutu River, Kamarang River, Kamakusa, Bai-tica 

 ( MTiitehj). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Xorth-east Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



341. Celeus undatus. 



Waved Woodpecker. 



Picus undatus Linn. Syst. Nat 12th ed. i. p. 175, 1766 (Cayenne). 

 Celeus rufus Cab. in Schomb. KeL?. Guian. iii. p. 715, 1>>4S; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1886, p. 59 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Merume Mts.) ; 



Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 450, 1890 (Takutu Kiver). 



