FAMILY PICIDAE 573 



meters on Cerro Pirre ; on the Caribbean side in eastern San Bias 

 (Perme, Puerto Obaldia) ; Isla Coiba. 



This race, though not common, is widely distributed in the more 

 humid forests of eastern Panama. Usually I have located them 

 through the sound of their industrious pecking, which may continue 

 as steadily as that of some other small relatives, like the downy wood- 

 pecker of the north. Another sound that attracts attention is their 

 drumming, a quick tattoo, made with great rapidity, slightly longer 

 in duration than that of other woodpeckers of Panama. Their low 

 calls are heard less often. Occasionally I have seen 3 or 4 together, 

 and less often have found 1 moving through the forest in company 

 with roving bands of ant-wrens, small flycatchers, and tanagers. 

 Nothing is recorded of their nesting. 



In 1956 I was interested to find a few of these woodpeckers in the 

 forests of Isla Coiba, usually in the wetter areas back of the mangrove 

 swamps. The 3 taken include 2 adult and 1 immature bird. These 

 agree closely in color with cecilii of Darien, rather than with neg- 

 lectus of the adjacent mainland. They are slightly smaller and have 

 a smaller bill, but in this are merely at the lower margin of the main- 

 land series. Whether they should be recognized under a separate 

 name requires more material for determination. 



In most birds of this species the feathers of the crown are attached 

 so loosely that in spite of careful manipulation a number usually are 

 lost in the preparation of specimens. 



In the description of the species under the name kirkii, Malherbe 

 says merely that it is named for Kirk, without explanation. He gave 

 the name cecilii in honor of Madame Cecile de Maillier. In his mono- 

 graph of the woodpeckers published in 1862 he amended this to the 

 feminine form ceciliae. The other spelling however has priority. 



DENDROCOPOS VILLOSUS EXTIMUS Bangs: Hairy Woodpecker, 

 Carpintero Velloso 



Dendrocopus villosus extimus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Qub, vol. 3, 

 January 30, 1902, p. 33. (Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Medium size; black above with a white or brownish white stripe 

 down the back, and white lines over the eye and on the neck ; under 

 surface mainly brown. 



Description. — Length 165-180 mm. Adult male, above black includ- 

 ing the side of the head, malar stripe, and the central tail feathers ; 

 a red band across the back of the head ; line over and around eye, and 

 a band across hindneck, white to brownish white ; a broad stripe down 



