190 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Chloronerpes oleagimxs Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., part iii, 1868, 112. 



[Chloronerpes] oleaginus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 200, no. 8808. 



Mesopiciis oleaginus Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 53; iii, 1862, pi. 57, 

 figs. 6, 7. 



Dendrobates oleaginus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 344, part 

 (Orizaba and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; near City of Mexico). 



Eleopicus oleaginus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 34 (Jalapa). 



Veniliornis oleaginus Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1899, 205. 



[Veniliornis] oleaginus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 221. 



Chloronerpes oleagineus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 307 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); 1859, 367 (Jalapa), 368 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz); 1864, 177 

 (near City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 337 (Orizaba; Jalapa). — 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 159 (Jalapa). 



[Chloronerpes] oleagineus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 99. 



Picus oleagineus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 35. 



P[haeonerpes] oleagineus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 140. 



[Phaeonerpes] oleagineus Heine and Reichenow. Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 218. 



Dendrobates oleagineus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 

 347 (Papantla, Coatepec, Jalapa, Cordova, Uvero, Potrero, Orizaba, and 

 Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz; Minerdl de San Sebastian, Jalisco?).^ 



VENILIORNIS OLEAGINUS SANGUINOLENTUS (Sclater). 



CABOT'S WOODPECKER. 



Similar to V. o. oleaginus, but smalJer and with general coloration 

 brighter, tlie back, etc., averaging more golden or tawny olivaceous, 

 frequently tinged (sometimes conspicuously) with red, the sides of 

 head, chin, and throat, much darker, the loral, orbital, and auricular 

 regions wood brown to raw-umber brown, the chin and throat dull 

 grayish brown or brownish gray. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 135-176 (158.5); wing, 82-98.5 

 (87.6); tail, 43.5-54.5 (48.9); culmen, 19-22.5 (21.1); tarsus, 15-19 

 (17.1); outer anterior toe, 11.5-14.5 (12.3).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 136-166 (150); wing, 82-95.5 

 (87.5); tail, 40-53 (48.1); culmen, 18.5-21.5 (20.1); tarsus, 16-17.5 

 (16.6); outer anterior toe, 10.5-13 (11.8).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Buena 

 Vista; Motzorongo), Oaxaca (mountains near vSanto Domingo), 

 Tabasco (Teapa), Yucatan (La Vega; Puerto Morelos; Tizimin; 

 Chichen-Ttza), and Chiapas (Palenque), and southward through 

 Guatemala (San Jose; Escuintla; Savana Grande; Choctum; sources 

 of Rio de la Pasion; Retalhuleu; Los Amates, Yzabal), British Hon- 

 duras (Toledo; near Manatee Lagoon; Orange Walk), Honduras 

 (Santa Ana; San Pedro Sula; Yaruca; Omoa), Nicaragua (San 

 Rafael del Norte; Santo Domingo; Pena Blanca; Chontales; Mata- 

 galpa; Lavala; Rio Coca; Rio Escondido), and Costa Rica (Barranca; 

 Jimenez; San Bernardo; La Hondura; El General; Turrialba; Gua- 



« Specimens from Jalisco ehould be carefully compared with those from eastern 

 Mexico. 



b Thirty-one specimens. 

 c Seventeen specimens. 



