480 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII. 



Veniliornis ruficeps ruficeps HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XIV, 1907, p. 25 (Itaituba); 

 Id., Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., XXII, 1906, p. 611 (Pard; Rio Tocantins; 

 Borba; Rio Madeira; Marabitanas; Rio Negro); Id., XVII, 1910, p. 383 

 (Borba, Rio Madeira); Id., Abh. K. Bayer, Akad. Wiss., Munchen, XXVI, 

 2, 1912, p. 94 (Para District). 



Range: Northern and northeastern Brazil (middle and Lower 

 Amazon Region). 



*Veniliornis ruficeps haematostygma (Malherbe). CRIMSON-BANDED 

 WOODPECKER. 



Mesopicus hcematoslygma MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 72, pi. LXI, figs. 

 2-5 (P6rou") (Engenho do Gama)V 



Campias hilaris CABANIS and HEINE, Mus. Hein., IV, 1863, p. 154. 



Dendrobates h&matostigma HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 

 364 (Rio Napo and Sarayacu, Ecuador; Yquitos; Chamicuros and Xeberos, 

 eastern Peru). 



Veniliornis ruficeps hamatostigma HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XIV, 1907, p. 379 

 (Humaytha, Rio Madeira); Id., Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., XXII, 1906, 

 p. 611 (localities in Matto Grosso and Rio Madeira region, Brazil; central 

 and eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia); Id., XVII, 1910, p. 388 (Calama; 

 Maruins, Rio Madeira); SNETHLAGE, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 250 

 (Bom Lugar, Rio Purus, Brazil); CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, p. 353 (La Morelia, Colombia); VON IHERING, Aves do 

 Brazil, I, 1907, p. 184 (Rio Jurua). 



Range: Eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, Ecuador, southeastern 

 Colombia and upper Amazonian and Rio Madeira region, Brazil. 

 i: Peru (Chunchamayo). 



Veniliornis orinocensis Berlepsch and Hartert. b ORINOCO WOODPECKER. 



Veniliornis orinocensis BERLEPSCH and HARTERT, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 

 93 (Angostura and Munduapo, Orinoco Region, Venezuela = Munduapo 

 by designation); CHERRIE, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci., Sci. Bull., 

 II, No. 6, 1916, p. 306, crit. (Upper Orinoco Region, above thefalls of Atures; 

 Boca de Sina; Cunucunuma River, Venezuela). 



(?) Mesopicus kirtlandi MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 54, pi. LVIII, 

 fig. i (Bresil) c . 



Cf. Hellmayr (/. c.), 1906. 



b Veniliornis orinocensis BERLEPSCH and HARTERT: Differs from V. r. hcemato- 

 stygma chiefly in the absence of fulvous yellow color on the neck; absence of the 

 whitish line under the eye and the whitish anteocular spot; ground color of under- 

 parts somewhat darker brownish tint; the red spots on the tips of the larger upper 

 wing coverts very small or entirely absent; size somewhat smaller; wing, 93 to 95 

 mm. 



Messrs. Berlepsch and Hartert suggest (/. c.) that it is possible Mesopicus 

 kirtlandi MALHERBE (which I am unable to identify from the plate or description) 

 may prove to be this species, in which case, of course, Malherbe's name has priority. 

 (See also Berlepsch and Leverkuhn, Ornis, 1890, p. 30, in text). Hargitt's reference 



