534 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



The first record for Panama is of 1 taken and another seen by 

 Ludlow Griscom February 27, 1927, in a mangrove swamp at 

 Garachine, Darien (Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 282, 1927, p. 6). The 

 following year, on January 18, 1928, Rex Benson collected a male 

 at El Real, Darien. Griscom (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 78, 1935, 

 p. 330) , listed this El Real record as from Cana, through an oversight. 

 A female in the U. S. National Museum was taken August 12, 1962, 

 at Juan Diaz, east of Panama City by collectors from the Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory. The only other record at present is of 1 that I 

 saw in the mangrove swamp at the mouth of the Rio Chico, near 

 Chico, Panama, on April 4, 1948. I have looked for these birds in 

 that area on numerous visits since, but without success. 



These woodpeckers are fairly common in northwestern Colombia. 



PICULUS RUBIGINOSUS UROPYGIALIS (Cabanis) : 

 Golden-olive Woodpecker, Carpintero Verde 



Chloronerpes uropygialis Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 10, September 1862, p. 321. 

 (Cerro de la Candelaria, Costa Rica.) 



Medium in size; green above, greenish yellow below barred with 

 dusky ; male and female with center of crown dark gray. 



Description. — Length 195-220 mm. Male, entire center of crown 

 broadly dark gray ; a line on either side, nape and hindneck bright red ; 

 forehead in some also lined or washed lightly with red; back, wing 

 coverts, and secondaries golden brown; rump and upper tail coverts 

 dull yellow, barred with light olive ; tail brownish olive, with the shafts 

 and distal half of central rectrices black; primaries grayish brown, 

 with the outer webs greenish brown, except on the three outermost ; 

 inner webs of secondaries grayish brown ; side of head including loral 

 area and line above eye, brownish white, distally barred narrowly 

 with dull black ; malar stripe bright red ; chin and throat dull black 

 streaked with dull white; foreneck and breast dark yellowish olive, 

 barred with yellowish white, becoming yellower and less heavily 

 barred on lower breast and abdomen; edge of wing dull golden 

 yellow; under wing coverts and bases of primaries and secondaries 

 buffy yellow. 



Female, like the male but with red of crown restricted to nape and 

 hindneck ; no red malar stripe. 



An adult female taken February 26, 1962, at the head of the Rio 

 Guabal on the Caribbean slope of northern Code, had the iris red- 

 dish brown ; maxilla and mandible except at base dull black ; base of 



