FAMILY PICIDAE 57 1 



Adult female, crown and nape brownish black; band across hind- 

 neck orange-yellow ; otherwise like male. 



Immature, duller colored above, more narrowly barred below ; 

 male with red spotting on crown reduced. 



The species is one of wide distribution in northern South America 

 with extension to the north into Darien, and an isolated group in 

 western Panama and southwestern Costa Rica. Two geographic races 

 are found in the Republic of Panama. 



VENILIORNIS KIRKII NEGLECTUS Bangs 



Veniliornis neglectus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 2, December 30, 

 1901, p. 99. (Divala, Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Characters. — Dorsal surface browner ; less reddish orange on back ; 

 side of head grayer; yellow of nape paler. 



A female, collected near Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, had the iris 

 wood brown ; cutting edge of maxilla below nostril and the mandible, 

 except the tip, dull greenish gray ; rest of maxilla and tip of mandible 

 fuscous-black ; tarsus and toes dark neutral gray ; claws fuscous 

 with black tips. 



Measurements. — Males (4 from Chiriqui), wing 82.5-86.8 (84.3), 

 tail 49.9-54.7 (51.9), oilmen from base 16.5-21.4 (19.9), tarsus 

 15.2-15.9 (15.6) mm. 



Females (7 from Chiriqui), wing 80.2-84.5 (83.2), tail 46.7-49.9 

 (48.3), culmen from base 18.8-20.8 (19.8), tarsus 15.3-16.2 

 (15.8) mm. 



Resident. Rare ; found locally in small numbers in the lowlands 

 of far western Chiriqui. 



These inhabitants of forest seem never to have been abundant, and 

 have become further restricted by clearing in their haunts. The race 

 was first recorded in Panama by Sclater (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1856, p. 143) from a pair collected by Bridges at David, these being 

 the only ones seen. Arce, according to Salvin, and Salvin and 

 Godman, collected specimens at Bibalaz and Mina de Chorcha, 

 Chiriqui, and at the Cordillera del Chucu and Calobre, Veraguas. 

 Bangs (Auk, 1901, p. 360) recorded a female taken November 9, 

 1900, at Divala, Chiriqui by W. W. Brown, Jr. There is a male in 

 the California Academy of Sciences collected at Puerto Armuelles, 

 Chiriqui, November 26, 1929, by Mrs. M. E. Davidson. 



In 1960, on March 12 I secured 2 at Canta Gallo, below Alanje, 

 Chiriqui, in the line of trees bordering the Rio Escarrea. Near 

 Puerto Armuelles from February 7 to March 9, 1966, I saw them 



