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)arred with black and tawny-buff, and a white stripe along each side 

 )f interscapular area; there is also a white or buff postocular stripe 

 n C. hsematogaster and C. h. splendens, wanting in C. pollens.) 

 Range. — PanamS. to Peru. (Two or three species ?) 



CNIPARCHUS H^MATOGASTER SPLENDENS (Hargitt). 



SPLENDID WOODFECEES. 



Similar to C. h. hxmatogaster'^ but adult male with foreneck and 

 throat crimson (instead of black), spots or bands on inner webs of 

 remiges buff-yellow instead of white and much broader, and feathers 

 of hindneck black, instead of white, at base. 



Adult male. — Pileum (including crest), hindneck, sides of neck, fore- 

 aeck (together with more or less of lower throat), chest, and more or 

 less of under parts of body carmine red; a black auricular area, con- 

 tinued, narrowly, beneath bare orbital space across lores to anterior 

 portion of forehead, where forming a narrow frontal band; a narrow 

 (sometimes interrupted) supra-auricular or postocular stripe of buff; 

 a very broad subauricular stripe of buff, extending anteriorly over 

 suborbital and rictal regions and upper haff of malar region to, and 

 including, the nasal tufts; lower half of malar region, chin, and more 

 or less of upper throat imiform black; rest of under parts nearly 

 uniform carmine red in unworn plumage, but usually the breast, 

 abdomen, sides, and flanks dull blackish, washed, more or less, with 

 red, and barred with pale fulvous or brownish buffy, the under tail- 

 coverts mostly black; back, ^ scapulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail, plain black, the primaries passing into a Kghter, dull grayish 

 brown color distally and tipped with dull whitish; rump carmine red; 

 under wing-coverts and axillars pale yellowish buff, those near edge 

 of wiag narrowly barred with dusky; inner webs of remiges with 

 very large quadrate spots of yellowish buff; bUI dull black or slate- 

 blackish;, iris yellow;" legs and feet blackish or dusky (in dried 



^"[10118] haematogaster Tschudi, Wiegmann'e ArcUv fur Natvirg., 1844, 302 (Av. 

 Consp. Peruv., p. 42), pi. 25 (Peru). — Picus hiematogaster Sundevall, Consp. Av. 

 Picin., 1866, 6. — D[ryocopus\ hmmatogaster Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 436. — Megapicus 

 hsematogaster Malherbe, Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 27; iii, 1862, pi. ix, figs. 1, 2, 3. — C[ampe- 

 philm] haematogaster Reichenbach, Handb., Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 395, pi. 651, 

 fig. 4343. — Campophiliis hsematogaster Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1890, 478. — 

 Clniparchus] haematogaster Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft. 2, 1863, 98. 



1 have not seen a specimen of this subspecies. A skin from Bogota, in the collec- 

 tion of the U. S. National Museum, apparently an adult female, seems to be inter- 

 mediate in coloration between C. h. hsematogaster and C. h. splendens. 



6 Hargitt (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 480) describes the "upper and middle back 

 pale buffy yellow, the outer and lower feathers barred with dusky black." In all 

 the Panama specimens examined by me (four adults) the whole back is black, with . 

 a very small amount of wholly concealed whitish spotting. 



«T. K.Salmon. 



