192 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VENHIORNIS KIRKH DARBENENSIS Ridgway. 



DARlfN WOODPECKER. 



Similar to V. Ic. continentalis,'^ but wing-coverts wdthout yellowish 

 spots or streaks, and under parts more narrowly barred, the paler 

 bars pale brownish buff instead of dull buffy white; similar also to 

 V. Jc. cecilii,"' but back, etc., brighter, more tawny, and under parts 

 more broadly barred with pale brownish buff (instead of dull whitish), 

 and slightly smaller. 



Adult male. — Pileum dusky, the feathers broadly tipped with 

 bright crimson (more poppy red or vermilion posteriorly), the anterior 

 portion of forehead and the nasal tufts plain brown; hindneck deep 

 saffron or Indian yellow; back, scapulars, and wings bright olive- 

 tawny, the wing-coverts (sometimes back also) slightly tinged or 

 touched with red; rump and upper tail-coverts bright poppy red; 

 tail brown, the middle rectrices extensively blackish distally and 

 sometimes broadly but indistinctly banded with the same basally, 

 the lateral rectrices broadly barred or banded mth darker; loral 

 region, anterior portion of malar region, chin, and upper throat plain 

 pale buffy brownish, the auricular region deeper grayish brown 

 (nearly broccoli brown), finely and indistinctly streaked with paler; 

 under parts pale brownish buffy, very regularly barred with dark 

 grayish brown (nearly hair brown), the darker bars decidedl}^ broader 

 than the buffy ones on chest, elsewhere about as wide or (on flanks) 

 slightly narrower; under wing-coverts buffy white, sparsely but 

 rather broadly barred with dusky, those along edge of wing largely 

 deep grayish brown; inner webs of remiges dusky broadly barred or 

 spotted with pale dull buff or dull buffy whitish; bill light horn color, 

 darker toward culmen; iris dark reddish brown ;^ feet dull grayish 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 143; wing, 83-85 (84); tail, 52-54 

 (53); exposed culmen, 18.5-20.5 (19.5); tarsus, 15.5; outer anterior 

 toe, 11.5-12.5 (12)." 



Eastern Panama (El Real, Darien); western Ecuador (Guay- 

 aquil). 



a See p. 188. 



^According to Heyde and Lux. 



c Two specimens, one from El Real, Darien, the other from Guayaquil, western 

 Ecuador. These compare in measurements as follows: 



The two specimens are practically identical in coloration. 



