BIRDS OF SOUTHERN VERACRUZ — WETMORE 271 



Family PICIDAE 



DRYOBATES SCALARIS RIDGWAYI Oberholser 



Dryobates sealaris ridgivayi Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, June 

 30, 1911, p. 143 (Jaltipan, Veracruz, Mexico). 



The four specimens taken were found in the vicinity of camp at 

 Tres Zapotes on April 10 and 12, 1939, and March 8, 1940. They 

 ranged in the open pastures and old fields in which there were scat- 

 tered tracts of brush. On April 10 I found a nest hole 9 feet from 

 the ground in a dead tree standing just outside a thicket. A male 

 taken here showed definite incubation patches, while in a female, shot 

 at this same place two days later, they were absent. 



Measurements are as follows : 2 males, wing 89.4, 90.5, tail 47.4, 49.8, 

 culmen from base, 19.3, 20.2, tarsus 16.1, 16.5 mm. ; 2 females, wing 

 84, 85.5, culmen from base 17.6, 17.9, tarsus 16.5, 17.1 mm. 



VENILIORNIS FUMIGATUS SANGUINOLENTUS (Sclater) 



Chloronerpes sanguinolentus P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, May 1859, 

 p. 60, pi. 151 (Omoa, Honduras). 



This is the most common woodpecker of the region, ranging both 

 in forest and in the lower second growths that come to cover the 

 abandoned fields of the farmers. They often feed low down near the 

 ground, sometimes under rather heavy cover. Carriker found them 

 at 2,000 feet and higher in the Sierra de Tuxtla. They remind me of 

 the downy woodpecker {Dryobates pubescens) of the North in their 

 industrious habit of working with steady pecking at wood containing 

 food. Sometimes I found them climbing over palm spathes. The 

 call is a rattle somewhat suggestive of that of the downy woodpecker 

 already mentioned. 



Specimens were obtained near Tres Zapotes on March 13 and 21 

 and April 4, 1939, and February 24 and 28 and March 4, 1940, and on 

 Cerro de Tuxtla on March 23, April 1 and 3, and May 4, 1940. The 

 bills in this series average larger than in birds from Honduras so 

 that the two groups probably are subspecifically distinct. 



PHLOEOCEASTES GUATEMALENSIS REGIUS (Reichenbach) 



CampepMlus regius Reichenbach, Icones ad synopsin avium, No. 12, Scan- 

 sores, Picinae, 1854, p. 393, pi. 649, figs. 4331-4332 (Papantla, Veracruz). 



These large, handsome woodpeckers, of robust form, were fairly 

 common through areas of heavy forest, though somewhat less abun- 

 dant than Ceophloem lineatus similis found with them. On April 4, 

 in the heavy woodland at Arroyo Corredor, I heard a clear, staccato 



