CKOCO-MORPHCS. — CAMTEPH ILL'S. 493 



Adult male. General colour above and below pale yellow ; 

 malar patch red; lesser upper wing-coverts brown, edged with 

 buffj-white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and outer primary 

 quill uniform brown, the last rufous at base of the inner web; 

 the remainder of the primary and secondary quills rufous except 

 the apical portion of some of the primaries ; tail blackish ; basal 

 portion of quill-lining rufous. 



Total length 240 mm., cuhnen 2G, wing l',\6, tail 75, tarsus 27. 



Adult feuude. Ditf'ers from the adult male only in the absence 

 of the red malar patch. Wing 131 mm. 



A\ e do not know the exact locality, in British Guiana, where 

 the male bird was procured, but the female was collected on the 

 Ituribisi River. 



JBreeding-aeason. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J^<j(is. I^ndescribed from British Guiana, 



Rauye in Brkisli Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 Kiver, Supenaam River, Lama River, Abary River (McConnell 

 collection) . 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne (P. L. S, MuUer)^ North Brazil, 

 Peru, Ecuador. 



I/<d>it.s. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 715) that he 

 only met with this bird near the coast. It was a rare species, and 

 he only obtained a single specimen during the whole of his journey 

 in the Colony. Its habits and mode ot" lite are the same as those 

 of other Woodpeckers. 



Genus CAMPEPHILUS Gray. 



Cii'iipephiluti Gray, List Gen. B. p. ol, LSlU. Ty})e C. principalis 

 (Linn.). 



This genus is distinguished by having a distinct crest, tlie 

 nostrils covered l)y bristly plumes, the outer posterior toe longer 

 than the outer anterior toe, and the tail-feathers concave. 



Key to the Sjteciea. 



A. A Women aiul vmder tail-coverts rufous 



brown; inner weljs of (juills rufous C. rubricoKin, \>. V.li:. 



B. Abdomen and under t;ul-coverts burred 



witli black an<l white ; inner webs of 



(jiiills white O. mtlunolcucus, \). \\)o. 



