502 FIELD MUSEUM or NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII. 



*Picumnus cinnamomeus venezuelensis* (Cory). VENEZUELAN CIN- 

 NAMON PlCULET. 



Picumnus venezuelensis CORY, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Orn. Ser., I, No. 7, 1913, 

 p. 288 (Encontrados, Zulia, northwestern Venezuela). 



Range: Low, humid, forested region of northwestern Venezuela, 

 i : Venezuela (Encontrados, Zulia) ; the type specimen. 



Picumnus castelnaui Malherbe. CASTELNAU'S PICULET. 



Picumnus castelnaui MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 281 (not plate); 



HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 528. 

 Picumnus castelnaudi SCLATER and SALVIN, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 



196; Id., 1873, p. 290; TACZANOWSKI, Orn. Pe"rou, III, 1886, p. 64. 



Range: Ecuador and Peru. 



*Picumnus leucogaster Pelzeln. WHITE-BELLIED PICULET. 



Picumnus leucogaster PELZELN, Orn. Bras., 1870, p. 241 (Rio Branco, north- 

 ern Brazil); BERLEPSCH and HARTERT, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 95 (Alta- 

 gracia and Caicara, Orinoco region, Venezuela); CHERRIE, Mus. Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts and Sci., Sci. Bull., II, No. 6, 1916, p. 309 (Altagracia and Cai- 

 cara, middle Orinoco River, Venezuela). 



Picumnus castelnaui MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, III, 1862, pi. 117, figs. 

 1-2 (not text, II, 1862, p. 281). 



Range: Northern Brazil (Rio Branco region, etc.) northward to 

 middle Orinoco region, Venezuela. 

 2: Brazil (Boa Vista, Rio Branco). 



Picumnus fuscus Pelzeln. DUSKY PICULET. 



Picumnus fuscus PELZELN, Orn. Bras., 1 870, 335 (Guapore) ; PELZELN and LORENZ, 

 Ann. k.-k. Naturalist. Hofm. Wien, 1888, p. 42; HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 530. 



Range: Rio Guapore, west of Matto Grosso, Brazil. 



Picumnus temminckii Lafresnaye. TEMMINCK'S PICULET. 



Picumnus temminckii LAFRESNAYE, Rev. Zool., 1845, pp. 6; in (Paraguay); 

 PELZELN, Orn. Bras., 1870, p. 240, 442; BERLEPSCH and VON IHERING, 

 Madar. Zeitsch. Gesmamm. Orn., II, 1885, p. 156, pi. IX, fig. 2. 



Picumnus cinnamomeus venezuelensis (CORY) : Approaches P. cinnamomeus 

 cinnamomeus, but differs in being darker and having the under parts deeper chest- 

 nut; the anterior part of the forehead rufous chestnut, and no white spots on the 

 posterior part of the crown. Back, rump and scapulars rufous brown; under parts 

 darker approaching deep rufous chestnut; nape and sides of the head dark like the 

 under parts; frontal band rufous chestnut on anterior part, shading posteriorly into 

 buff; crown black, the feathers broadly tipped with golden yellow nearly as in cin- 

 namomeus but without white spots at the extreme hinder part as in that species; 

 wings and tail as in cinnamomeus. Length (skin), 97 mm.; wing, 53; tail, 33; 

 bill, 12; tarsus, 12. 



