234 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Eighteen specimens : Bonda, Mamatoco, La Tigrera, Fundacion, 

 Tierra Nueva, Dibulla, Rio Hacha, Tucurinca, and Fonseca. 



This tiny little piculet is a very distinct, isolated species, and ap- 

 pears to be confined to the northern littoral of Colombia. In the 

 Santa Marta region it ranges over the whole of the littoral Tropical 

 Zone from Rio Hacha to Fundacion, not going above 1,000 feet. 

 Simons found it at Valle de Upar, on the south side of the mountains. 

 It is rare everywhere, and being so small easily escapes notice, the 

 more so from its habits of frequenting the most tangled parts of thickets 

 and masses of vines. It is very tame and may be approached quite 

 closely with a little care. 



177. Picumnus squamulatus Lafresnaye. 

 One specimen : Fundacion. 



This specimen agrees in size with a good series from the coast region 

 of Venezuela, considered by Messrs. Hellmayr and von Seilern (Ar- 

 chiv fiir Naturgeschichte, LXXV1II, 1912, 152) to represent P. s. 

 obsolctus Allen. These Venezuelan birds average a little smaller than 

 a series from the State of Boyaca, Colombia, assumed to be practically 

 topotypical squamulatus, but we fail to make out any difference in 

 coloration whatever, although considerable seasonal variation exists. 

 The name obsoletus is almost certainly based on an individual variant, 

 judging by the description above, since Messrs. Hellmayr and von 

 Seilern state that specimens from the State of Bermudez are like 

 those from Caracas and Las Quiguas. 



A single female was taken at Fundacion, August 14, 1913, in the 

 tangled undergrowth of the open woodland, this being the only one 

 seen. The record is interesting as extending the range of this species 

 to the Caribbean coast region of Colombia. 



178. Veniliornis kirkii cecilii (Malherbe). 



Fourteen specimens : Fundacion, Punto Caiman, and Tucurinca. 



These compare favorably with specimens from the interior of Co- 

 lombia, although some of them have the wing-coverts slightly tinged 

 with red, verging thus toward the Panama form. The outer rectrices 

 are in some examples distinctly barred, in others nearly plain. The 

 color of the upper parts also varies considerably. 



The local range of this woodpecker covers the lowlands contiguous 

 to the Cienaga Grande, back to the lower edge of the foothills of the 



