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One of the May birds was in breeding condition when collected. 
Though these specimens have been labeled punctipectus, it is possible 
that with more material a distinct race may be segregated in this 
interior area. The birds listed have the spots on the lower surface 
small, one bird being nearly immaculate. The throat also is blacker 
than the average in punctipectus, resembling guttatus. The races of 
this bird will be understood only when more material is available. 
Dr. Wetmore has examined the series in the Chicago Natural History 
Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, in addition 
to the specimens in Washington, but found these collections too 
poor in material from the Orinoco and Amazon Basins to allow any 
definite conclusions as to the form inhabiting this area. 
CELEUS JUMANA JUMANA (Spix): Spix’s Amazonian Woodpecker 
Picus jumana Sprx, Avium species novae . . . Braziliam .. . , vol. 1, 1824, p. 57, 
pl. 47 (‘in sylvis flum. Amazonum’’), 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. &, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, December 29, 1930—January 5, 1931. 
1 ad. 0, Brazil, Rio Maturac4é, November 9, 1930. 
lad. #, 2ad. 9, Brazil, Salto do Hud, Rio Maturacé, November 17-19, 1930. 
2 ad. 3, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, November 29-December 4, 
1930. 
lad. #, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Chapazon, January 31, 1931. 
1 -, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Solano, February 2, 1931. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, mouth of Cafio Atamoni, February 6, 
1931. 
lad. #, 1 ad. 9, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 1-3, 1931. 
lad. @, one ad. 9, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, right bank, opposite Corocoro 
Island, March 14-15, 1931. 
3ad. 7,3 ad. 9,1lim. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 
30—April 21, 1931. 
2 ad. #, lad. ?, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, January 2, 1930, 
and May 8-18, 1931. 
The three most northern examples (Puerto Ayacucho) have much 
paler yellow rumps and upper tail coverts than do the other specimens. 
They are large (@ wings 162.5-163; 2 wings 159 mm.) but are 
matched in this respect by examples from Diamantina, near Santarem, 
Brazil. In fact, one of the Puerto Ayacucho males has the rump and 
upper tail coverts paler and purer yellow (less tinged with ochraceous 
or tawny) than any of a very large series from all parts of the range. 
Thanks to the kind cooperation of the officials of the American 
Museum of Natural History, the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, and the Carnegie Museum, I have been able to amass a 
series of about 150 specimens of jumana, citreopygius, and the various 
races of elegans. The color of the rump and upper tail coverts is 
apparently a matter of individual variation—almost pure yellow, 
ochraceous, dusky tawny, orange-citrine, or even dark ochraceous- 
