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Show 1870.] MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. 213 Judging from Mr. Lawrence's description of C. callopterus (Ann. Lye N. Y. vii. p. 476), this species would seem to be allied to the bird there described ; but the characters given, such as the presence of " a yellow band from the bill, along the side of the head, under the eye, below which is a band of olive-brown ; throat pale fulvous with dusky spots, and lower part of abdomen and under tail-coverts pale rufous," seem to preclude the possibility of the bird I now describe being the female of C. callopterus. Chloronerpes cecilice. Mina de Chorcha. 155. MELANERPES CHRYSAUCHEN, sp. n. Supra niger, dorso medio et uropygio albis, illo nigro maculato: loris, fronte et nucha flavis, pileo medio coccineo : alis nigris, intus albo notatis, cauda nigra: subtus albidus, flavo lavatus, ventre medio coccineo, hypochondriis et crisso nigro transfasciatis : rostro et pedibus plumbeis : long, tota 6*5, alee 4*5, caudce 2*5, rostri a rictu 1*1, tarsi 0*7, dig. med. cum ung. 0*95. Fem. mari similis, sed pileo medio vitta nigra transfasciato, colore coccineo absente. Hab. Bugaba (Arce). Obs. M.fiavifronti Vieill. similis, sed loris et nucha flavis, ventre imo solum coccineo facile distinguendus. This well-marked species, of which Arce has sent specimens of both sexes, seems certainly more nearly allied to the Brazilian M. flavifrons than to its nearer neighbours M. cruentatus and M. rubrifrons. From M. flavifrons it may be easily distinguished by the broader black band behind the eye, and by the lores being entirely yellow instead of black. Moreover in the present bird the throat is not so clear a yellow, and the red is confined to the lower belly and does not spread over the whole central portion of the abdomen. 156. MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS (Sw.) ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 341. V. de Chiriqui. A single male specimen agrees with Costa-Rican, Guatemalan, and Mexican skins. Sundevall (Consp. Av. Pic. p. 51), following Mal-herbe, gives Panama as a locality for M. flavigularis, Scl. This I conceive to be an error, as no specimen of it has been yet sent by the collectors on the Isthmus ; moreover this form of Melanerpes is only found in the highlands, M. formicivorus seldom descending below an elevation of 5000 feet above the sea-level. Centurus tricolor. Calovevora ; Castillo ; Chitra. 157. ARA MILITARIS (L.) ; Finsch, Papag. i. p. 396. Calovevora. |