NOTES' ON GUAiTEM,ALAN BlRDSi — WETMOiRE 549 



SPHYRAPICUS VAKIUS VARIUS (Linnaeus): Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 



Pious varius Linnaeus, Systenia naturae, cd. 12, vol. 1, 17(!(). p. 176 (South 

 Carolina). 



At Sierra Santa Elena on November 20 I shot a female in a dense 



stand of deciduous trees adjacent to a pasture at 9,500 feet. Another 



female was taken at 10,000 feet near Maria Tecum on November 24. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS SANCTORUM Nelson 



Dryobates sanctorutu Nelson, Auk, Jan. 1897, p. 50 (Todos Santos, Guatemala). 



At Sierra Santa Elena this woodpecker was so common that I 

 secured 4 males and 1 female between November 17 and 23. To one 

 accustomed to the clear white markings of the hairy woodpeckers of 

 the North, the dull-brown under parts of these Guatemalan birds 

 Avas of never-ceasing interest. In some this brown color was found 

 also on the back, but in others the dorsal markings were nearly 

 white. I was inclined to believe that the brown was intensified by 

 staining from the wet, moss-grown trunks over which the birds 

 climbed. I found them in mixed pine and deciduous forest where 

 they worked in typical hairy woodpecker fashion. They were silent, 

 except once when I heard a chattering call from one, suggestive of 

 D'ryohates but differing from any of the hairy woodpeckers with 

 which I am familiar. 



Family DENDROCOLAPTIDAE 



LEPIDOCOLAPTES AFFINIS AFFINIS ( Laf resnaye) 



Dendrocolaptcs afflnis Lafkesnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. 2, Apr. 1839, p. 100 (Mex- 

 ico). 



At Sierra Santa Elena, Axel Pira, Jr., shot one on November 17 at 

 9,400 feet as it moved along a tree trunk, our attention being called 

 to it by its chattering, laughing call. I saw another there on November 

 27 and on November 26 shot one in mixed oak and pine woods at 8,600 

 feet near Chichivac. 



LEPIDOCOLAPTES SOULEYETII COMPRESSUS (Cabanis) 



Thripobrotus comprcssus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Ora., 1861, p. 243 (Costa Rica). 



Near Las Lajas at 3,200 feet elevation below Alotenango I found 

 these birds in a coffee plantation on November 8, 29, and 30 and col- 

 lected a female on the first date mentioned. 



This specimen, with others in the National Museum, corroborates 

 the statement of Brodkorb^^ that birds from the Pacific slope of 

 Guatemala are to be referred to comprcssus rather than to imignis as 

 they agree with a long series of sldns from Costa Rica and Nicaragua 



" Occ. Tap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 369, Apr. 11, 1938, p. 3. 



