-tOG BIRDS OF BRITISH GLIAN'A. 



Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 312) :— '' What 

 splendid birds the Woodpeckers are — strongs active, full of 

 A'itality and enthusiasm over life. These were big fellows, l)lack 

 aljove, variegated on shoulders and head with white ; thickly 

 barred below and with a long crest of blazins scarlet." 



Genus CEOPHLCEXJS C'ab. it Hein. 



Ceoj)hltjeus Cabanis &. Heine, Mas. Hein. iv. p. 85, 1865. Typi^ 

 C. tscapularis (Vig.). 



In this genus the chin-angle is exposed, the outer anterior too 

 i.< longer than the outer posterior toe, and the tail is less than 

 two-thirds the lenoth of the winji. 



346. Ceophloeus lineatus. 

 I.iNEATED Woodpecker. 



Picus lineatus Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. p. 174, 1766 (Cayenne). 



Uryocopus lineatus Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 716, 1848 ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1886. p. 58 (Bartica Grrove, Camacusa, Roraima, 

 3500 ft.) ; Lloyd Price. Timehri (2) v. p. 66, 1891. 



Ceoplilceus lineatus Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. .508, 1890 

 (Cau\aeusa, Bartica Grove) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 

 ]). 200, 1910 (Hoone) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Ainer. i. p. 177, 

 i.u. 1770, 1912. 



Aihilt male. Back, wings, and tail black, outer edges of scapular 

 featiiers white ; a line of white running from the base of the bill 

 down sides of neck and extending on the sides of breast ; crown of 

 head and na})e, as also the malar patch, bright scarlet ; a patch of 

 grey behind the eye ; throat white with black shaft-streaks to the 

 feathers; a line of black which joins the malar patch uniting with 

 the black on the fore-neck and chest ; remainder of under surface 

 white barred with black ; under wino-coverts white, as is also the 

 basal portion of the quill -lining. 



The male and female described were collected in Deinerara. 



Total length 340 mm., culmen 37, wing 18.5, tail 130, tarsus 30. 



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

 absence of the red malar patch and in having the fore part of 

 the head black instead of scarlet, as in the male. Wing 19b mm. 



JSretdiufj-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



