440 PICID^. 



j3. SuhUis transfasciatus ; dorsum posticum et tectrices supracaudales coccinece. 

 4. Dendrobates ceciliae. 



Mesopicos cecilii, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 538 \ 

 Chloronerpes cecilii, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 143 '. 

 Chloronerpes cecilix, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 157'; 1870, p. 213*. 

 Dendrobates cecilios, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 366 \ 



Supra Isete oleagineo-brunneseens, dorso postico, teetrieibus supracaudalibus et pileo toto coooineis, nucha flavo- 

 aurantiaca ; alls extus immaculatis dorso fere concoloribus : subtus fusco-brunneus, albido stricte trans- 

 fasciatus ; alls intus fuscis, albo distincte maculatis ; Cauda fusca, indistincte transf asciata ; rostro et pedi- 

 bus saturate plumbeis. Long, tota circa 6-0, alae 3'45, caudse 2*2, rostri a rictu 1*05, tarsi 0-6, dig. med. 

 absque ungue 0-5, dig. ext. 0-6. (Deser. maris ex Mina de Chorcha, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis, sed pUeo toto fusco nee coceineo. 



Hal. PAifAMA, David {Bridges^ ^), Mina de Chorcha^, Bibalaz (Arce). — Colombia ^j 



W. ECUADOE^. 



This Woodpecker belongs to a small section of the genus Dendrobates in which the 

 lower back and upper tail-coverts are bright red in both sexes. It thus differs conspi- 

 cuously from I), oleagineus and its allies ; moreover it is banded below, a character 

 shared by many South-American members of the genus, and the nape is yellow. Only 

 one other species in South America is at all nearly allied to J), cecilice, and that is 

 D. Mrki of the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. The latter species may always be 

 distinguished by the wing-coverts being spotted with yellow. 



J), cecilice was described by Malherbe from Colombian specimens, and it is not 

 unfrequently represented in the trade collections of skins made by the bird-hunters of 

 Bogota. Salmon found it in the Province of Antioquia, and Bridges obtained speci- 

 mens in Chiriqui, as recorded by Mr. Sclater. The only Panama specimens we have 

 seen are from the latter district, whence Arce sent us two males. Bridges ^ says this 

 Woodpecker is found on the trees in the outskirts of the town of David, but he only 

 observed one pair. 



b. Cervix contracta, plumis parvis vestita; caput magnum. 



c'. Naves apertce haud plumis oltectoe. 



CELEUS. 

 Celeus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542 ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 420. 



Mr. Hargitt includes fourteen species in Celeus, keeping two small genera, Cerchnd- 

 picus, with three species, and Crocomorphus, with two species, distinct. The species of 

 both of these genera have usually been included in Celeus. The former, according to 

 Mr. Hargitt, differs in having an elongated and not a rounded nostril, and the latter is 

 without a distinct ridge on the side of the bill running from above the nostril parallel 

 to the culmen. 



