Prof. Burmeister met with this peculiarly coloured Woodpecker near Paraná, and Mr. Barrows found it resident in Entrerios, though not very abundant.
White speaks of this species as follows:—“These noisy birds, abundant in various parts of Misiones as well as in the rest of the north of the Republic, go about in flocks of eight or ten, and settle on the same tree, which they proceed to ascend very comically in a spiral or corkscrew fashion, each head touching the preceding tail. They are not seen in dense forests, but only out in the open, on some old, usually dead, tree, and I think I observed them as far south as the sierras of Cordoba.”
[259.] COLAPTES LONGIROSTRIS, Cab.
(LONG-BILLED WOODPECKER.)
Colaptes longirostris, Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1883, p. 97.
Description.—Similar to C. rupicola, d’Orb., but with the bill much longer.
Hab. Tucuman.
This is a southern form of the Brazilian C. rupicola, which has been recently described by Dr. Cabanis. Herr Schulz obtained a single male example of this species in Tucuman. Like C. rupicola it has red moustaches, but no red nape-band, whereas the more northern C. pura of Peru shows a red nape-band in both sexes.