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PICI. 



Picumnus olivaceus granadensis Lafr. 



[FicHm)ti/,'< ol/caa'i/s Lal'r., Met-. Zuol. I.s4r). p. 7 ("Habit, ad. Bogotam in 

 Colombiii, e mus. Massena ").] 



Piriimtiiix gruiiadi'iixis Lafr., Rec. Zool. 1n47. p. Ts (" Habit, ad. Caly. in 

 Nova- G ran ad a ) . 



Ohimbo, Ecuador (Rosenberg coll.), Paraniba (Flennuing k Miketta coll.) 

 S. Domingo, W. Ecuador ((ioodfellow & Hamilton coll. . 



In the Cat. B. Brit. Mks. xviii. pp. .548, .J4;i, Hargitt distinguished between 

 /'. oUcureus with orange-scarlet tips to the feathers of the forehead and /'. 

 (jraiifideims with golden-yellow tips to the forehead, tliough the distribution 

 assigned to these two forms was rather unsatisfactory, as he made /'. olieaceits 

 to live in Eastern ('olombia and reajipearing in Costa Kica and Honduras, while 

 his giviiudeii.'tis lived in W. Ecuador and W. Colombia, to Venezuela and Cliiriqui. 



In 1895, in the Biol. Centr. Amer., Messrs. Salvin and Godman, instead of 

 imj)roving on Hargitt's statements, made them worse, undoing again what he had 

 done well. In fact /'. olivam/g and (imiiaflensix are very easy to distinguish, but 

 the Central American (prol)ably all, but certainly those from Costa Rica) birds are 

 neither the one nor the other, having- the forehead spotted neither with orange- 

 scarlet, nor with yellow, but with a dull orange. Salvin it Godman's statement 

 that " the differences are so blended by intermediate forms " that they must be 

 united, is misleading, as the so-called intermediate specimens are from other 

 localities, nor is the idea that " age of the feathers themselves or the age of the 

 birds " is responsible for these differences, born out by the material in the Tring 

 and British Museums. We must therefore separate three distinct races at least, 

 namely : 



a. /'ic/a/u/iix olifuceus Jiaeotiiirtns Ridgw. 



Described from Costa Kira. Di^tiibution Costa Rica and other parts of Central 

 America — exact distribution not known to ine. 



Chest deeper olivaceous, upperside more ulivaceons, stripes on sides of abdomen 

 somewhat less sharply defined and wider. Adult mulf with dnll orange tips to the 

 featbers of the forehead. 



h. I'iciim.iiiis oUcuceaii olniwens Lafr. 



Described from Bogota. Distribution eastern regions of Colombia. E.xact 

 limits not yet known. 



t!hest more greenish, not so deep olivaceous, upperside a little more greenish, 

 stripes on sides of abdomen narrower and more sharply defined. Adult mah with 

 orange-scarlet tips to the feathers of the foreiiead. 



'•. I'ii-umiiiis olicaceus yranadcn^us Lafr. 



Described from Cali, W. Colombia. Distribution W. Colombia and N.AV. 

 Ecuador, as far as known. 



