146 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AduU maZe.— Length (skins), 188-199 (192); wing, 121,5-125 

 (123.9) ; tail, 66.5-71 (68.4) ; exposed culmen, 20.5-22.5 (21.5) ; tarsus, 

 20-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 19-20 (19.5) .« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 190-198 (193); wing, 121.5-126.5 

 (124.2); tail, 67-71 (68.2); exposed culmen, 23-23.5 (23.2); tarsus, 

 20-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 19-19.5 (19.2).* 



Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica (Siptirio and Rio SIcsola, Tala- 

 manca; Carrillo; El Hogir; Gu4cimo) ; Jimenez. 



Celeus mentalis (not of Cassin) Zbled6n, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 283. 



Celeus loricatus (not Mdglyptes loricatus Reictenbach) Zeled6n, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 111 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 124 (Talamanca and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 442, part (Talamanca and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — 

 Caheiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 590 (Rio Sicsola, Carrillo, and 

 Guacimo, Costa Rica; crit.). 



[Celeus] loricatus Shaepe, Hand-Hat, ii, 1900, 226, part (Costa Rica). 



Genus CEOPHLCEUS Cabanis. 



Ceophloeus " Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., May, 1862, 176. (Type, Picus Ivmatua 

 Linnseus.) 



Large Picidse (wing about 160-190 mm.) with conspicuously 

 crested head, slender, short-feathered neck, outer hind toe shorter 

 than outer front toe, bill nearly as deep as wide at nostrils, and 

 under parts of body (posterior to chest) pale brownish or duU yel- 

 lowish barred or spotted with dusky. 



Bill about as long as head or slightly shorter, stout, distinctly 

 chisel-shaped at tip, regularly wedge-shaped in vertical profQe, its 

 width at base of maxillary tomia equal to about two-fifths the length 

 of culmen, its depth at anterior end of nostrils a little less than its 

 width at same point; culmen slightly convex subbasaUy, sharply 

 ridged; gonys distinctly ridged, decidedly longer than mandibular 

 rami, nearly straight, ascending terminally, sKghtly convex and 

 prominent basally; supranasal ridge very distinct, extending for 

 two-thirds or more the length of maxilla, parallel with culmen; 

 mandibular rami with a more or less distinct oblique ridge and 

 groove. Nostril longitudinally elliptical, situated about midway 

 between culmen aiid tomium, partly covered by small antrorse hair- 

 like prefrontal feathers. Feathers of malar region and chin small 

 and short, not antrorse, and without bristle-like tips. Orbital region 

 naked, including margin of eyelids. Wing relatively large; longest 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by about one-fourth the length of 

 wing; fifth, sixth, and seventh primaries longest, the ninth about 

 equal to or a little shorter than third, the tenth (outermost) more 



"Five specimens. 

 6 Four specimens, 

 c "Von Kko), spalten, und <j>Xocb;, Rinde." (Cabanis.) 



