NOTES' ON GUAiTFv]\rA.LA]Sr BIRDS' — WETMOiRE 547 



tail was moved up and down, rotated slowly, or swung from side to 

 side like the pendulum of a clock. Sometimes it was held at an 

 angle at one side. 



Family RAMPHASTIDAE 



AULACORHYNCHUS PRASINUS STENORHABDUS Dickey and van Rossem 



Atilacorhj/nchus prasimis stenm-liahdus Dickky and van Rossem, Ibis, 1929, pp. 

 49, 52 (Cerro Los Naranjos, Volcaii Santa Ana, Dept. Sonsonate, El 

 Salvador). 



On November 3, in a deeply wooded barranca at 3,500 feet near 

 Alotenango, while I was watching a group of birds in a tall treetop, 

 a toucanet came hopping out with twitching tail and was taken. It 

 fell amid grass and leaves directly at my feet where for a. minute I 

 could not see it, so closely did its colors match the green of the vege- 

 tation. At Sierra Santa Elena Axel Pira, Jr., gave me the skin of 

 one taken there in April 1936. 



Family PICIDAE 



COLAPTES MEXICANOIDES MEXICANOIDES Lafresnaye 



Colaptes tnexicanoidcs Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1844, p. 42 (Mexico). 



Near Sierra Santa Elena these handsome flickers were common 

 along the borders of woods and trails, ranging from Chichivac at 

 8,600 feet upward. I saw them also at Canderas and at Patzicia and 

 found them common above 10,200 feet at Desconsuelo. They are 

 tj^pical flickers in general appearance as they fly away with bounding 

 flight, displaying their white rump patches. But most of their 

 l)igh-pitclied, chattering, laughing calls are quite different from the 

 notes of the northern species, and only occasionally did my ear 

 catch a sound from them that indicated their flicker relationship. 

 They were found often in pairs. Three were taken at Sierra Santa 

 Elena on November 17 and 18, and two more at Desconsuelo on No- 

 vember 24. One of the latter was prepared as a skeleton. 



The four skins agree in dark coloration with specimens from 

 Chiapas though the bills average a little shorter, In two males this 

 measurement is 38.2 and 40 mm., and in two females 36 and 37.6 mm. 



CEOPHLOEUS LINEATUS SIMILIS (Lesson) 



Picns shnilis Lesson, Oeuvres completes de BnfEon, vol. 20, 1847, p. 204 (San 

 Carlos, El Salvador). 

 Two specimens were obtained at an elevation of 3,200 feet near 

 Las Lajas. beloAv x^]otenango, a female on November 8 and a male 



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