570 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



VENILIORNIS KIRKII (Malherbe) : Red-rumped Woodpecker, 

 Carpintero de Rabadilla Roja 



Figure 74 



Picus (Chloropicus) Kirkii Malherbe, Rev. Zool., November 1845, p. 400. 

 (Tobago.) 



Small ; under surface heavily barred with dark grayish brown and 

 dull white; rump bright red. 



Description. — Length 150-160 mm. Inner hind toe very small. 

 Adult male, side of head, nasal tufts, and in some the forehead dull 



Figure 74. — Red-rumped woodpecker, carpintero de rabadilla roja, Veniliomis 



kirkii. 



brown ; crown and hindneck dusky, the feathers tipped more or less 

 broadly with bright red; a band of yellow across hindneck; back, 

 scapulars, and wings tawny-olive, often tinged or washed with red; 

 rump and upper tail coverts bright red ; tail brown, the feathers 

 dark, blacker centrally, the lateral pairs barred or spotted, often 

 indistinctly, with dull white to brownish white; under surface dark 

 grayish brown, barred narrowly with brownish white to grayish 

 white ; throat paler, usually with barring narrower ; under surface of 

 wing barred broadly with brownish white. 



