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Family PICIDAE. 



WOODPECKERS, PICULETS. 



(1662) COLAPTES PUNA Cabanis. 



Colaptes puna Cabanis, Journ. fur Ornith., 1883, p. 98 (Valle de Tauli, W. Peru). — 

 Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, 1906, p. 104 (Vilcabamba). 



Colaptes rupkola Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 154 (Tungasuca; 

 Tinta). 



Specimens from Guaqui, at the southern end of I^ake Titicaca are 

 referable to C. rupicola, while a series from Tirapata all have the red 

 nape of C. puna. These specimens indicate, therefore, the non-integra- 

 dation of these representative species. I have no examples of 

 cinereicapiUus. Specimens from Junin are referable to puna. 



OUantaytambo (12-13,000 feet), 1 male (breeding, Nov. 7), 1 

 female; Chospiyoo, 1 juv.; La Raya, 4 males, 1 female, 1? 



(1682) CHLORONERPES CHRYSOGASTER Berlepsch and Stolzmann. 



Chloronerpes chrysogaster Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1902, 

 vol. 2, p. 32 (Garita del Sol, central Peru). 



A specimen from Santo Domingo, in southeastern Peru, suggests 

 the probability of the intergradation of this form with C. r. canipileus 

 of Bolivia. It is near the latter but in its deeper yellow color and 

 less distinct bars of the abdomen it approaches cJuv/sogaster. As 

 Berlepsch and Stolzmann have already said, it is a singular fact that 

 birds from Colombia, Venezuela, and Bolivia should more nearly 

 resemble each other than do those from Bolivia and Peru. Other 

 than a small difference in size, the Bolivian bird being larger with 

 a longer bill, I am indeed unable to separate 0. r. meridensis from 

 C r. canipileus. 



Lucma, 1 female (breeding, Aug. 18) ; San Miguel Bridge, 1 male. 



(1733) VENILIORNIS HAEMATOSTICMA HILARIS (Cabanis and Heine). 



Campias hilaris Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., vol. 4, pt. 2, 1863, p. 154 (Peru). 

 Veniliornis haematostigma hilaris Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, 1906, p. 96 

 (Santa Ana). 



As Berlepsch has shown,^^ Malherbe founded his Mesoplcus haetna- 

 tostigma on Natterer's birds from Borba and Maribataiios in Brazil 

 to which, therefore, the name should be restricted, while hilaris, 

 as above, is applicable to the Peruvian form. I have no Brazilian 

 specimens, but these two birds from Peru differ from two specimens 

 from the Province of Santa Cruz, Bolivia (which should more nearly 

 resemble true haematostigma) in being more broadly barred with white 

 below, the olive bars, therefore, being not only broader but darker, 

 and thej^ arc more deeply colored above. I consequently follow 

 Berlepsch in accepting hilaris as the name of the Peruvian form. 



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