410 PICID^. 



subsequently to the publication of the second list of his birds in 1870 2. These two 

 specimens were compared together by Salvin in 1875, and found to be quite alike. 

 The Veraguas bird is now figured. The male of C. callopterus will doubtless have a 

 large amount of red on the head as well as a red malar stripe, and that sex will be 

 distinguished from the male of C. simplex by a yellow stripe passing from the corner 

 of the mouth under the eye. 



The range of this species will doubtless prove to be very restricted, and probably 

 hardly passes the limits of the State of Panama. 



6. Chloronerpes simplex. (Tab. LIX. fig. 2.) 



Chloronerpes simplex, Salv. P.Z. S. 1870, p. 212'; Ibis, 1874, p. 317'; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. xviii. p. 81 \ 



Oleagineo-virescens, gula, pectore et regione auriculari paulo obscurioribus ; capite toto, nucha et stria lata 

 malari coccineis, pectore macuKs disca]ibus ocbraceis guttato, abdomine paUide ochraceo-flavido, trans- 

 fasciato ; alls intus castaneis, remigibus omnibus apicibus nigricantibus et nigro transfasciatis ; Cauda fusco- 

 nigricante extrorsum dorse concolori ; rostro et pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota circa 7"0, alae 4'5, caudle 

 2-55, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 0"7, dig. med. absque ungue 0-6, dig. ext. 0-55. (Descr. maris ex Chontales, 

 Nicaragua. Mus. nostr.) 



$ man similis, sed capite toto (nucba excepta) dorso fere concolore paulo obscuriore. 



Hab. Nicaragua, La Libertad in Chontales ( W. S. Eichardson) ; Costa Eica, Talamanca 

 (Gabb^); Panama, Bugaba^, Chiriqui^ (ArcS). 



A female specimen sent by Arce from Bugaba, in the district of Chiriqui, was described 

 by Salvin in 1870 1, and a male recognized as of the same species, obtained by Prof. 

 Gabb's expedition to Talamanca,, was also described by him in 1874 2. Arce sub- 

 sequently sent a second female specimen from Chiriqui *. Since then we have received 

 two males and a female from Mr. Eichardson, who obtained them at La Libertad, in 

 the district of Chontales, Nicaragua, in January and February 1892, the female agreeing 

 closely with the type. 



C. sim/plex resembles C. callopterus in many respects, but may readily be distin- 

 guished by the absence of the yellow stripe of the latter, which runs from the 

 corner of the mouth below the eye, and by the throat being of a uniform colour, 

 unbroken by yellow marks. 



Our figure is taken from the type from Bugaba. 



MELANEEPES. 



Melanerpes, Swainson, Class. Birds, ii. p. 310 (1837) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p, 290; Hargitt, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 139. 

 Centurus, Swainson, Class. Birds, ii. p. 310 (1837) ; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 93. 

 IHpsurus, Swainson, Class. Birds, ii. p. 311 (1837). 



"We use the name Melanerpes in the wide sense adopted by Mr. Eid^way and 



* Mr. Hargitt ' states that this is the type — an obvious mistake. 



