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7. Dorsum posticum coccineum, abdomen plerumgue concolor. 

 4. Campophilus splendens. 



Campephilus hcematog aster, Salv. (nee Tsch.), P. Z. S. 1867^ p. 157' ; 1870, p. 212"; Scl. & Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1879, p. 532'. 



Campophilus spendens, Hargitt, Ibis, 1889, p. 58"; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 480'. 



Supra niger, dorso imo, pileo toto, cervice et corpore subtus (mento excepto) coccineis, stria frontali per oculos 

 utrinque ducta nigra, supra earn post oeulos et infra earn a naribus ociiraceo-alba, pectoris lateribus 

 nigris, bypochondriis fusco et nigro fasciatis ; subalaribus et maculis magnis in pogoniis internis remigum 

 ochraceis ; rostro et pedibus plumbeo-nigricantibus. Long, tota 15-5, alse 7-3, caud* 3-9, rostri a rictu 

 2'2, tarsi 1*55, dig. med. absque ungue 0'85, dig. ext. 1"2. 



$ mari similis, sed gula aiitica nigra, stria ochracea infra oculos cervicis lateres occupante. (Descr. maris et 

 feminas ex Antioquia, Colombia. Mus. Brit. 'I 



Hah. Panama, Santiago de Veraguas^ Calovevora2 {Arce^). — Colombia, State of 

 Antioquia ^. 



This species is closely allied to C. hcematogaster, Tsch., and was not separated from 

 that bird till 1889, when Hargitt detected the differences, and gave it a distinct 

 name. In the male C. splendens the red colour spreads much further up the throat 

 than in C. hcematogaster, leaving little more than the chin pure black ; the spots, too, 

 of the primaries are more stained with ochre in the former bird, and this character is 

 shared by the female. Hargitt states that the bases of the feathers of the hind neck in 

 C. splendens are black, whereas they are white in C. hcematogaster. In the contracted 

 skin of Bogota make this character cannot be examined, but in other specimens, so far 

 as we can see, little difference is observable ; if anything, the short feathers in both 

 birds at the back of the neck are indistinctly barred towai'ds their bases. 



The only adult male of this bird that we have seen was obtained by Salmon in the 

 Colombian State of Antioquia. Three skins sent us by Arce are all females, and are 

 narrowly and irregularly barred towards the base of each feather of the under surface, the 

 tips alone being red. Whether this extensive barring of these feathers is characteristic 

 of C. splendens or not, we are unable at present to say. In the skins of C. hcematogaster 

 before us not nearly so much is seen, and the barred feathers are so irregularly placed 

 that it seems probable that they would disappear in the fully adult bird. 



Salmon noted the iris of G. splendens to be yellow ^. 



Digitus pedis externus (reversus) quam digitus medius brevior. 



CEOPHLGEUS. 



Ceophloms, Cabanis, J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 176; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 2, p. 85 (1863) ; 

 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 506. 



Ceophlceus, according to Hargitt, contains five species, which we would reduce to 



four C. fuscipennis being, in our opinion, indistinguishable from C. lineatus. These 



are distributed over the greater part of the Neotropical region, from Mexico to South 

 Brazil. One common South-American species, C. lineatus, occurs within our limits, 



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