FAMILY PICIDAE 539 



DeSchauensee (Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monogr. 6, 1944, p. 32) 

 from 1 taken on Cerro Sapo, Darien, by the fifth George Vanderbilt 

 Expedition of 1941. Eugene Eisenmann informs me that he has seen 

 it on Cerro Azul. 



In my own travels, I found tins woodpecker first on the upper Rio 

 Jaque, Darien, where we secured 2 males in tall trees over an Indian 

 Pldtano plantation on April 13, 1947. Later I shot a female on 

 March 13, 1950, in the tall forest of the summit of the ridge of Cerro 

 Chucanti in the eastern Province of Panama. In late January and 

 early February 1961, I found the bird fairly common in the heavy 

 forest on the slopes of Cerro Pirre, and secured 2 more females. In 

 habits these birds reminded me much of our northern downy wood- 

 pecker (Dendrocopos pubescens) as they worked quietly over the 

 trunks of the trees in dense forest, pecking steadily at the wood. The 

 stomachs of 2 of those taken by Goldman at Cana were filled with 

 fragments of small ants. 



As a whole the forms grouped by Peters (Check-list Birds World, 

 pt. 6, 1948, p. 1 14) under the species name Piculus leucolaemus are 

 little known. The range extends from eastern Bolivia and western 

 Brazil north in eastern Peru and Ecuador, through Colombia to west 

 central Panama. In South America all are marked by a bright yellow 

 to orange-yellow band across the side of the head, from the base of 

 the lores to the side of the upper neck. In the population of Panama 

 this stripe is dull yellowish white and is much less conspicuous. Also 

 the chin and throat are duller colored and size is small. 



PICULUS CHRYSOCHLOROS AUROSUS (Nelson): Golden-green 

 Woodpecker, Carpintero Dorado 



Chloronerpes chrysochlorus aurosus Nelson, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, 

 no. 3, September 24 (Sept. 27), 1912, p. 3. (Marraganti, Darien, Panama.) 



Of medium size, plain green above, golden below, barred with 

 blackish slate ; male entire crown red, in female golden yellow. 



Description. — Length 210-225 mm. Adult male, crown and nape 

 bright red; rest of upper surface bright olive-green; tail like back, 

 but with heavy shaft lines of dull black; side of head through eye 

 and loral area bright olive-brown ; a broad malar streak red ; line from 

 the base of the nares back along side of head golden yellow; chin 

 and throat golden buff; rest of lower surface from lower foreneck 

 to under tail coverts golden yellow, barred somewhat narrowly with 

 blackish slate ; edge of wing light yellow, with a few small spots and 

 bars of blackish slate; under wing coverts light cinnamon-buff; most 



