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 312. Veniliornis cassini (Malh.). 



Mesopicm mmui Malh., Picidar II. (ISOliJ p. M. PL LXVIII. figs. 2, 3 {Imb. " Du Bn'sil ou de 

 la Nonvelle Grenade." We substitute Cayenne.) 



Snapnre : <S (S 29. iii., 7. iv. 1900; ? ? in. iv., 14. L\. '99. "Iris dark red; 

 feet black ; bill grey, varying from very dark at base of maxilla to very light at 

 tip of mandible " (Klages). 



La Pricion : 3. ii. 1901. " Irides brown ; feet and toes greenish grey ; upper 

 bill black, lower one grey " (E. Andr^). 



313. Veniliornis orenocensis n. sp. 



^' Detidrobales ruficeps (Spix) an D. kirtlamU Malh." Bcrl. & Lev. Oriiis 1890 p. 30 (Angostura). 



I'. I', haematostigma dicto afiinis sed panlo minor, nucha maris pileo concolore 

 nee aurea, alarum tectricibns snperioribus vix vel minus distincte rubro-maculatis, 

 corpore subtns in fundo brunnescentiore, necnon regioue ante- et snbocnlari brnnneo 

 uec albesceute distinguendus. Al. 95 — 93, caud. 57 — 51, culm. 20J, tars. 17^ — • 

 16^ mm. 



Hub. In regione fluminis Orinoco : Angostura — Munduajio. 



Typus in Mus. H. v. B. 



Nericagna: SS 29. iii., 1. iv., ? 1. iv. '99. 



Mundnapo : t?c? 8, 11, 23. ii. '99. 



"Iris Vandyke brown; feet olive-plumbeons (olive); bill above black, below 

 slate-grey." 



(Nos. 11868, 11910, 12084, 1230G, 12353, 12354 Cherrie coll.) 



This apparently new species differs from V. haematostigma (Malh.),* especially 

 in the want of the fulvous yellow colour on the neck, also in wanting the whitish 

 line under the eye and the whitish ante-ocular spot, in having the ground colour 

 of the nnderparts of the body of a rather darker brownish tint, in showing Init 

 very small traces of the blood-red spots at the tips of the larger upper wing-coverts 

 (wanting altogether in some specimens) and in presenting smaller dimensions. 



It might be the same as Mesopicus hirtkuuli Malh., but it is impossible to 

 judge from Malherbe's description and figure of that species. 



314. Veniliornis passerinus (L.). 



Picus passerhius Linn., Syst. Nat. Ed. XII. 1 (1766) p. 174 ex Briss. (" ex Dominica "— erroret). 

 Pictis smegalensis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1 (1788) p. 430 (ex Buffon— Senegal, errore. We sub.stitute 



Cayenne). 

 Picus lephrodops Wagl. % 

 Dendrobates tephrodops Harg., Cat. XVIII. (1890) pp. 339, 352. 



Altagracia : cjt? 1. ii. '98, 19. xi. '97, ¥ 9 2, 3. (bis) ii. ; <? juv. 20. i. '98. 



Caicara: <S <S S. vi., 25. ii., 8. iii., c?c? juv. (marked " ? ? "), 16. ii., 15, 26. 

 iii. ; ? 23. ii., ? juv. 1. iii. '98. 



" Iris dark sepia ; feet plumbeous olive ; bill black." 



(Nos. 8744, 9147, 9748, 9954, 9961, 9962, 9981, lOlOO, 10218, 10260, 10315, 

 10417, 10491, 10562, 10944 Cherrie coll.) 



* We have compared specimens from Central Peru in Mus. H. v. B. 



f We substitute Cayenne. 



J The Pieus Ujihrodops Wagl. is simply based on Picus senegalerisis Gml. (ex PI. KiiL 345 f. 2) — 

 in Mus. Paris fitle Wagl.— which is clearly the same species as that which we have received through 

 Mr. Cherrie. It is perhaps not quite so certain that Picu^ passerinus Linn, (ex Briss.) means the same 

 species, but there is all probability that this is tbe case. At all events the term tephrodops must give 

 way to an ohter term, either setieffalejtsis (17KS; or passerintts (1766). 



