BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 441 
green (instead of dark citrine) ; the sides of the head (postocular region) 
olivaceous black . . ., mystacal stripe dull olive green . . . and the 
barring of the under parts darker (dark greenish olive to blackish) 
.. 2? This description practically fits the differences between the 
two Cerro Yapacana specimens. 
As far as available data indicate, this bird has not been recorded 
before from the Orinoco Basin of southern Venezuela. 
PICULUS FLAVIGULA FLAVIGULA (Boddaert): Yellow-throated Green Woodpecker 
Picus flavigula BoppaErt, Table des planches enluminéez .. ., 1783, p. 49 
(Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2ad. #,1ad. 9, Brazil, Cucuhy, Rio Negro, February 2-7, 1930. 
1 ad.~(@), Brazil, Cachoeira Manajé, Rio Cauabury, October 30, 1930. 
lim. @, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, above mouth of Rio Ja, November 5, 1930. 
lad. #,1lad. 9, Brazil, Rio Maturacd, Salto do Hud, November 14-22, 1930. 
lim. 2 (=), Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, mouth of Cafio Atamoni, Febru- 
ary 6, 1931. 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 25, 1931. 
Two of the February birds and one of the April ones show signs*of 
molting in the tail and wings and body plumage. 
This series presents some variations that can better be recorded. 
than explained at the present time. Males vary in the amount of 
red on the gular area but never seem to have a really well developed 
band there. One from Cucuhy (labeled 9, but with the whole forehead, 
crown, and occiput red) has none; the immature male from the Rio 
Cauabury has a faint trace; the other Cucuhy male has a better- 
defined short gular band; the Cachoeira Manajé example has just a 
trace. The color of the lower back and rump of the females varies 
from dark greenish olive to old gold. The two Cucuhy males have 
very dissimilar bills, one having a culmen length (from base) of 24, 
the other of 21 mm., although the wing and tail lengths are about the 
same in both. 
Two additional specimens, now preserved in alcohol, were taken, 
one at So Gabriel, and one on the Brazo Casiquiary below the mouth 
of the Rio Pacila. 
CHRYSOPTILUS PUNCTIGULA PUNCTIPECTUS Cabanis and Heine: Spot-breasted 
Woodpecker 
Chrysoptilus punctipectus CaBanis and Heinz, Museum Heineanum, vol. 4; 
1863, p. 163 (Venezuela). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. @,4ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, January 3, 1930 
and May 8-15, 1931. 
