CELEUS.— CAMPOPHILUS. 443 



region at Turbo, and these were described and figured by Cassin as Celeus mentalis ^. 

 Then Mr. Lawrence described a female specimen from Panama as Celeus squamatus ^ 

 considering it distinct from Celeus fraseri of Western Ecuador. Subsequent investiga- 

 tions have settled that all these names are synonyms of Mmglyptes loricatus of 

 Reichenbach. based on a bird said to have been obtained in Peru by Warszewiez ^. 



M'Leannan sent us two females from Panama, and subsequently Arce obtained a 

 male from Veraguas. This marks the extreme limit of the range of the species so far 

 as our own information goes; but Mr. Zeledon records it from the Costa-Rican 

 province of Talamanca, where it must closely approach the domain of C. castaneus, 

 which occurs at Angostura on the same side of the mountain-range. 



We have no record of its habits, but Salmon, who met with the bird in the 

 Colombian State of Antioquia, states that the iris in life is dark 2. 



3. Celeus immaculatus. 



CeleiLS immaculatus, Berl. Ibis, 1880, p. 113 \ 



" Allied to C. elegans, from wMct it seems onlj' to differ in having the inner webs of the wing-feathers plain 

 yellow, without the black bands or spots to be seen in that species." (Berlepsch, I. s. c.) 



Hub. Panama, Agua Dulce (^de Berlepsch). 



We know nothing of this species, nor was Mr. Hargitt acquainted with it when he 

 wrote his ' Catalogue of Picidse.' It was described from a female specimer^ by Count 

 Berlepsch, and supposed to have been sent from Panama from the style of preparation 

 of the skin. 



C. elegans belongs to the section of the genus in which the under surface of the 

 body is nearly or quite uniform. Its habitat is the northern countries of South 

 America from Guiana to Trinidad and Venezuela. 



d'. Wares plumis ohtectce. 

 Digitus pedis externus (reversus) quam digitus medius longior. 



CAMPOPHILUS. 



CampepUlus, Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, p. 54. 



Campophilus, Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 2, p. 100 ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. 



p. 460. 

 Cniparchus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 3, p. 98. 

 Scapanms, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 2, p. 90. 



Excluding Ipocrantor magellanicus, which has frequently been considered a 

 Campophilus, Hargitt* includes fourteen species in this genus, which is almost 



* It is with great regret that we notice the recent death of Edward Hargitt, whose careful and concentrated 

 work on the Woodpeckers and their allies has done so much to elucidate their classification. As wiU be seen 



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