72 BULLETIN 117, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Order COCCYGES. 



Family CUCULIDAE. 



CUCKOOS, ANIS. 



(1488) PUYA CAYANA OBSCURA Snethlage. 



Piaya cayana obscura Snethlage, Journ. fur Omith., 1908, p. 21 (Bom Lugar, 



Rio Verde, upper Purus, Brazil). 

 Piaya cayana boliviana Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1908 (pub. Jan., 



1909), p. 500 (Yungas, Boli\aa). 

 Piaya cayana Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1876, p. 17 (Huiro). 

 Piaya cayana nigricrissa Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, 1906, p. 97 (Santa 



Ana). 



I am unable to separate our specimens from six from Bolivia 

 (Locotal, 3 ; Rio Chapare, 3) and one from Tres Buritys River, Matto 

 Grosso, Brazil. Hellmayr^* refers specimens from Calama, Rio 

 Madeira, to ohscura, which apparently, therefore, is the name to 

 be applied to birds from Bolivia and southern Peru. 



Rio Cosireni, 1; San Miguel Bridge, 1; Uchumayo, Urubamba 

 Canyon, 1 ; Rio San Miguel, 1 . 



(1496) TAPEKA NAEVIA (Linnaeus). 



Cumulus naevius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, 1766, p. 170 (Cayenne). 

 Diplopterus naevius Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1876, p. 17 (Maranura). 

 Tapera naevius Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, 1906, p. 97 (Santa Ana). 



(1499) CROTOPHAGA AN! Linnaeus. 



Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, 1758, p. 105 (Brazil). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool Soc, 1876, p. 17 (Maranura; Potrero). — Berlepsch and 

 Stolzmann, Ornis, 1906, p. 97 (Santa Ana). 



A wide ranging species of the Tropical Zone. 

 Santa Ana, 1; San Miguel Bridge, 3. 



Order SCANSORES. 



Family CAPITONIDAE. 



BARBETS. 



(1510a) CAPITO AURATUS INSPERATUS Cherrie. 



Capita auratus insperatus Cherrie, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 35, p. 391 



(Todos Santos, Rio Chapar^, Bolivia). 

 Capita punctatus (not Lesson ?), subspecies, Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, 



vol. 13, 1906, p. 123 (Rio Cadena, southeastern Peru). 



Hellmayr^^ records specimens of Capito from the Province of 

 Hu^nuco with which he writes birds from "Bogota" agree. Capito 

 auratus auratus (Dumont) thus inhabits the tropical zone at the 

 eastern base of the Andes from Colombia to northern Peru. A 



«J Nov. Zool., 1910, p. 401. 82 Nov. Zool., vol. 14, 1907, p, 82. 



