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cc. Coloration lighter, the dusky bars on under parts much narrower, the back, 

 etc., more yellowish; smaller (wing averaging 82.1, tail 48.9, culmen 19, 

 tarsus 15.4. (Venezuela.). . .Veniliornis kirkii continentalis (extralimital)." 

 hh. Wing-coverts without any yellowish spots or streaks or with only minute traces 

 of the latter. 

 c. Dusky bars on under parts narrower, less dark in color, the whitish bars rela- 

 tively broader; aiuricular region much paler brownish. 

 d. Whitish bars on chest, etc., narrower, less brownish; wing-coverts not 

 tinged with red; bill stouter. (Central Colombia.) 



Veniliornis kirkii cecilii (extralimital).^ 

 dd. Whitish bars on chest, etc., broader, more brownish; wing-coverts tinged 

 with red; bill more slender. (Eastern Panama to western Ecuador.) 



Veniliornis kirkii darienensis (p. 192). 

 cc. Dusky bars on under parts broader, darker in color, the whitish bars relatively 

 narrower; auricular region much darker brownish. (Panama and south- 

 western Costa Rica.) Veniliornis kirkii neglectus (p. 193). 



VENILIORNIS OLEAGINUS OLEAGINUS (Lichtenstein). 



OLEAGINOUS WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum and nape dark sooty or sooty blackish, passing 

 into grayish brown on anterior portion of forehead, the feathers (ex- 

 cept on forehead) broadly tipped with bright vermihon or poppy red, 

 this nearly uniform on nape; back and scapulars plain yellowish 

 tawny-olive to slightly grayish raw-umber brown, passing into a 

 duller, more grayish brown or olive, hue on lower rump; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail blackish brown, the lateral rectrices lighter brown 

 (nearly sepia) ; wings plain sepia brown, the coverts tinged or indis- 

 tinctly edged with the color of back; nasal tufts grayish brown, 

 passing into blackish terminally; loral, orbital, and auricular regions 

 plain pale grayish brown (pale broccoli brown), paler (dull whitish) 

 on orbital region; chin and throat (upper portion at least) dull 

 whitish, more or less flecked with dusky grajdsh; rest of under parts 

 plain yellowish tawny-olive (like upper parts) ; inner webs of remiges 

 with broad bars or transverse spots of white, the distal portion 

 (extensively on longer primaries) plain grayish brown; bill horn 

 color, passing into blackish on culmen and terminal portion of 

 maxilla; feet grayish dusky (in dried skins); length (skins), 163-175 



« Veniliornis kirkii continentalis Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, Feb., 1906, 39(Carip^, 

 near Cumana, Venezuela; coll. Tring Mus.). 



& Mesopicos cecilii Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., Nov., 1849, 538 (Colombia). — 

 [Chloronerpes] cecilii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 117. — Chloronerpes cecilii Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 161 (Bogotd, Colombia). — Mesopicus cecilii Malherbe, 

 Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 71, pi. 60, figs. 1, 2. — Chloronerpes cecilix Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1855, 161; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 338 (Bogota, Colombia).— C [Erythro- 

 nerpes] caeciliae Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft. 2, 1863, 143, footnote, part 

 (Colombia). — Picus cecilise Sundevall, Consp. Picin., 1866, 36. — Dendrohates cecilise 

 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 366, part (Bogotd and Antioquia, Colom- 

 bia). — Veniliornis cecilii Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1899, 205. — 

 [ Veniliornis] cecilise Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 222, part. 



