BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 449 
3 ad. o', lim. ¢¥, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, below mouth of Rfo Pacila, 
February 11-13, 1931. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Cafio Mabinagui, February 20, 1931. 
1 ad. o’, Venezuela, Capibara, February 16, 1931. 
1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, near Cerro Cariche, February 24, 1931. 
2 ad. oc’, lim. o, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, right bank, opposite Corocoro 
Island, March 13-16, 1931. 
Some of the January and February birds were noted as in breeding 
condition when collected. 
This fine series bears out Zimmer’s contentions as to the variability 
of this race (Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 756, 1934, pp. 1-4). 
XIPHORHYNCHUS GUTTATUS POLYSTICTUS (Salvin and Godman): Spotted Woodhewer 
Dendrornis polysticta SaAtvIN and Gopman, Ibis, 1883, p. 210 (Bartica Grove, 
British Guiana). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. o’, 1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rfo Orinoco, January 2-3, 
1930, and May 14, 1931. 
Zimmer (Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 754, 1934, p. 1) has pointed out 
that polystictus Salvin and Godman is an earlier name for sororius 
Berlepsch and Hartert. 
This race differs from X. g. guttatoides in being less rusty below and 
in having more pronounced dark edgings to the pale streaks on the 
breast. 
The May bird was in breeding condition. 
XIPHORHYNCHUS PARDALOTUS (Vieillot): Levaillant’s Woodhewer 
Dendrocopus pardalotus V1EILLoT, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., nouv. éd., vol. 26, 1818, 
p. 117 (based on “Le Grimpar flambé” Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des 
promérops..., p. 74, pl. 30: Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. o', 2 ad. 9, Brazil, Cucuhy, Rio Negro, February 2-8, 1930. 
lim. o&, lad. 9, Brazil, Panela de Onca, Rio Cauabury, Amazonas, November 
1, 1930. 
1 ad. o&, lad. 9, Brazil, Rio Maturacd, November 9, 1930. 
2 ad. o', 2 ad. 9, 1 im. ~, Brazil, Salto do Hud, Rio Maturacd, November 
12-20, 1930. 
7 ad. o', lim. o&, 2ad. 9, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, Venezuelan 
border, November 27—December 6, 1930. 
10 ad. o&, lad. 9, lim. ?, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 
18-April 29, 1931. 
Some of the birds collected in November, December, March, and 
April were noted as being in breeding condition. 
This woodhewer is found from the three Guianas west to southern 
Venezuela and-south in Brazil to the north bank of the lower Amazon. 
The present series from the Rio Negro and the extreme southern part 
of Venezuela, immediately to the north, appear to constitute a slight 
extension southwestward of the known limits of the range of the 
