DECEMBER 30, IgOT Vor. II, PP. 99-100 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WOODPECKER FROM 
CHIRIQUI. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
In the paper I lately published on the birds collected by Mr. 
W. W. Brown, Jr., at David and Divala, Chiriqui,’ f followed other 
writers on the birds of this region, in referring the small scarlet- 
rumped Venzliornis to V. cecthe of Colombia and western Ecuador. 
Being struck by the peculiar distribution accorded this species, — 
the Bogota region of Colombia and western Ecuador, cropping out 
again in Chiriqui, in the vicinity of David, —TI carefully com- 
pared our single specimen with the series of V. ceczl7e in the Na- 
tional Museum at Washington, and was not surprised to find that 
the Chiriqui bird is different. 
So far as I have been able to learn, the new species is known 
only from the vicinity of David and Divala (these two towns are 
about thirty miles apart, and lie in precisely similar country, under 
the same faunal conditions, and have a common ornis), where it 
is arare species. It may be known as: 
Veniliornis neglectus sp. nov. 
Type, from Divala, Chiriqui, Q adult, no. 7802, coll. of E. A. and O. 
Bangs, collected Nov. 9, 1900, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
1 Auk, Vol. XVIII, pp. 355-370, Oct., 1901. 
