354 On a Species of Picumnus from Guiana. 



and Borba (Natterer), and Messrs. Salvin and Godman have 

 it from British Guiana {Whitely) and Chamicuros, E. Peru. 

 I refer them all to D. merula (Liclit.). 



— (8) Dendrocolaptes obsoletus, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1887, p. 527 (Lower Amazons). 



I have nearly similar examples from Para {Wallace) and 

 Pernambuco (Forbes), but have not ventured to separate them 

 from D. certhia (Bodd.). 



— (9) ScLBRURUs cANiGULARis, Ridgw. (Costa Rica) . 



This appears to be the same as the Venezuelan bird which 

 Mr. Salvin and I call S. albigularis. See P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 630. , 



XXXIV. — Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. XVII. On an appa- 

 rently unnamed Species of Picumnus from Guiana. By 

 Edward Hargitt, F.Z.S. 



There has been great diversity of opinion as to the Picumnus 

 described by Linneus as Pipra minuta, Dr. Cabanis taking it 

 to be the Guianan species (for which I am about to propose 

 a new name), while Sundevall considers Linneus^s bird to 

 have belonged to the Brazilian species, which has the colour 

 much more yellow and the back spotted with black. Lin- 

 neus^s type existed in the Museum of Adolphus Frederick at 

 Stockholm, and the view taken by the eminent Director of 

 the Stockholm Museum (possibly derived from those who 

 may have seen the type, or from tradition) is, to my mind, 

 the one which ought to be adopted. I have examined the 

 specimens in the Stockholm Museum named P. minutus by 

 Sundevall, and they belong (without doubt) to the Brazilian 

 species, not to the Guianan P. tninutus of Cabanis. The 

 latter name being preoccupied, and no other being applicable 

 to the Guianan bird, I propose for it the title of Picumnus 

 undulatuSy and add a brief diagnosis of its characters. 



-Picumnus undulatus, sp. n. 



(J . Similar to P. minutus (Linu.), but distinguished by 



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