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(?) Dendrobates kirtlandi HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 349 



(Maroni River, Surinam). 

 (?) Veniliornis ruficeps kirtlandi VON IHERING, Aves do Brazil. I, 1907, p. 185." 



Range: Upper Orinoco Region, Venezuela. 



*Veniliornis affinis (Swainsori). GOLDEN-NAPED WOODPECKER. 



Picus affinis SWAINSON, Zool. Journ. 111., II, 1821, pi. 78 (Bahia). 



Picus maculifrons SPIX, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 62 (part, descr. female only.). 6 



Chloronerpes affinis GRAY, Gen. Bds., II, 1846, p. 443. 



Chloronerpes selysii SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 74. 



Mesopicus selysii MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 67; III, 1862, pi. 62. 



Campias selysii PELZELN, Orn. Bras., 1871, p. 245 (Bahia). 



Dendrobates affinis HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 362 (Prov- 

 inces of Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Goyaz). 



Range: Brazil, from the Rio Madeira region, east and south to 

 Provinces of Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and probably north to the Amazon 

 River. 



i: Brazil (Porto Velho, Rio Madeira). 



*Veniliornis kirkii kirkii (Malherbe). KIRK'S RED-RUMPED WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Picus (Chloropicus) kirkii MALHERBE, Rev. Zool., VIII, 1845, p. 400 (To- 

 bago). 



Chrysoptilus kirkii JARDINE, Contr. Orn., 1848, p. 15, pi. 2. 



Mesopicus kirkii MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, III, 1861, pi. 59, figs. 7, 8. 



Dendrobates kirki HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 365, part 

 (Trinidad and Tobago). 



Veniliornis kirkii OBERHOLSER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 205. 



Veniliornis kirkii kirkii HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, p. 39 (Tobago 

 and Trinidad); RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 188, 

 in key. 



Range : Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. 



3 : Tobago Island. 



*Veniliornis Irirkii continentalis Hellmayr. CONTINENTAL WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Veniliornis kirkii continentalis HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, p. 39 (Car- 

 ipe", near Cumana, Venezuela); RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 188, in key. 

 Range: Venezuela. 



9 : Venezuela (Lake Valencia i ; Maracay, Aragua i ; Encontrados, 

 Zulia 6; Colon, Tachira i). 



to the specimen in the British Museum identified as " kirtlandi" probably does not 

 belong here as it is extremely doubtful if the bird from the Maroni River, Surinam, 

 would prove to be the same as orinocensis, which seems to be restricted to the upper 

 Orinoco Region. 



Cf., Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., XXII, 1906, p. 610 (Spix's Types). 



b Cf. Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., XXII, 1916, p. 609 (Spix's Types). 



