CAMPEPHILUs. 41)5 



loud, indeed, were the peckin^s of the Red-necked Woodpecker 

 {Campephiliis rubricoUis) that it wus difficult to imagine their 

 connection." 



315. Campepliilus melanoleucus. 



Black-axd-AVhite Woodpecker. 



Picus melanoleucos Grmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 426, 1788 (Surinam). 

 Dryocopiis albirostris Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 716, 1848. 

 Campf'philus melanoleucus Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 68 (Bartica Grove) ; 



Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 292, 1910 (Ai*emu). 

 Campophilus melanoleucus Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x\'iii. p. 470, 



1890 (Takutu Eiver) ; Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 177, 



no. 17G2, 1912. 



Adult male. Lower Ijack, wings, and tail black like the hind- 

 neck, mantle, throat, and fore-neck ; a white line on each side of 

 the neck which divides and widens out on the sides of the scapulars, 

 while the narrower portion extends on to the sides of the breast ; a 

 double buff spot at the base of the bill ; the lower portion of the 

 ear-coverts buffy-white, upper portion of ear-coverts black ; entire 

 head and sides of face bright scarlet; under wing-coverts white 

 or buffy-white, as is also the basal portion of the inner webs of 

 the quills above and below ; breast, sides of body, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts barred with blackish brown and buffy-white. 



The male described was collected at Bartica, 1911. 



Total length 3G0 mm., culmen 44, wing 200, tail 124, tarsus 2G. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the fore- 

 head and middle of the crown black, also by the white cheeks 

 joining the white line on sides of neck. Wing 185 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana, 



JS'est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eijgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Ramje in British Guiana. Upper Takutu IMountnins, Bartica, 

 Bonasika River (McConnell collection) ; Bartica, Takutu River 

 {Whitehj) ; Aremu River {Beebe). 



E.ctrulimital Ramie. Surinam (Gmelin), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Rcis. Guian. iii. p. 7H)) 

 the mode of life and liabits of this bird are like those of JK llue- 

 atus ( = Ceophlcens lineutus, p. 41.Hi). 



Wo quote the following note regarding tiiis bin! from 



