Jan. 30 

 1 901 



BANGS CHIRIQUI BIRDS 33 



Aulacorhamphus caeruleigularis Gould. 

 Five adults, both sexes, Boquete, 4000 feet, January. 



Chloronerpes yucatanensis uropygialis (Cab.). 



Eight adults, both sexes, Boquete, 4000 to 5600 feet, January, 

 February, March and April. 



Jlelanerpes formicivorus striatipectus Ridg. 



Seventeen specimens, both sexes, Boquete, 4000 to 4500 feet, 

 January. February and April. 



This is a fairly well-marked subspecies, having a shorter, 

 stouter bill and more striped and spotted breast than the Mexican 

 form. 



Melanerpes wagleri Salv. and Godm. 



Three adults, both sexes, Boquete, 4000 feet, January and 

 February. 



Dendrocopus villosus extimus l subsp. nov. 



Eleven specimens, adults of both sexes, Boquete and Volcan 

 de Chiriqui, 4000 to 9000 feet, January to May. 



Type, from Boquete, southern slope of Volcan de Chiriqui, 6000 feet alti- 

 tude, $ adult, no. 8507, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected April 18, 1901, 

 by W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — Similar to D. sanctontm (Nelson) of the high mountains of 

 Chiapas and Guatemala, but much smaller, and with the dorsal stripe white 

 anteriorly, smoky brown only just as it reaches the rump (in D. sanctorum 

 the dorsal stripe is mostly or entirely smoky brown) ; under parts and outer 

 rectrices a little paler. 



Color. — -Upper parts black; primaries, secondaries and inner webs of 

 terHals, somewhat spotted with white ; malar and supra-auricular stripes 

 white ; dorsal stripe white anteriorly, smoky cinnamon just as it reaches the 



1 Extimus — outermost, most remote. 



