304 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



CHAETURA SPINICAUDA (Temminck). 



Cypselus spinicaudus Temm., Tabl. Meth. in PI. Col. I. 1839. p. 57. 

 Chaetura spinicauda Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 91. 



Not observed on the Orinoco by the writer, but recorded by Ber- 

 lepsch and Hartert from Suapure on the Caura River. 



CHAETURA ANDREI Berlepsch & Hartert. 



Chaetura andrei Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. p. 91 (Type, 

 $ , ex Caicara, Orinoco River, Venezuela. Cherrie Coll. No. 10534.) 

 I arrived at Altagracia the first of November, but no specimens of 

 this swift were observed until the 2nd of February following; after that 

 date they were seen but owing to their habit of flying high up, speci- 

 mens were secured with the greatest difficulty. Noted as not uncommon 

 at Caicara during March and April. 



PICIDAE THE WOODPECKERS. 



Berlepsch and Hartert's paper includes seventeen species, fifteen 

 of which number were observed and collected by the writer on the 

 Orinoco proper, the other two species included in that list came from 

 points on the Caura River. 



KEY TO GENERA, SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF PICIDAE. 



a. Tail-feathers stiff and pointed. 



6. Middle of belly bright red or reddish. 

 c. Back barred black and white. 



d. Rump and upper tail-coverts white, not barred Cenlurus subelegans. 



d'. Rump and upper tail-coverts white, barred like back Cenlurus terricolor. 



c'. Back black, not barred. 



d. With a white superciliary stripe and yellow nuchal band Tripsurus cruentalus. 



d'. Without superciliary stripe or yellow nuchal band Tripsurus rubrifrons. 



b'. Middle of belly not red or reddish. 



c. Under-parts barred or spotted with black or blackish. 



d. Chin, throat and sides of head yellow. (In males a short, red 



malar streak) Chloronerpes flavigula. 



d'. Chin, throat and sides of head not uniform yellow. 



e. Under-parts spotted with black Chrysoptilus punctigula punc- 



tipectus. 



e'. Under-parts barred with black. 

 /. General color of upper-parts black. 



g. Outer hind toe longer than outer front toe (centre of 



back largely white) Scapaneus melanoleucos. 



g . Outer hind toe not longer than outer front toe (centre of 



back black and spaculars white) Ceophloerus lineatus. 



f . General color of upper- parts olive or yellowish green. 

 g. Wing-quills barred with buffy or white on inner webs. 

 h. Wing-coverts with buffy or white spots. 



i. Upper back slightly tinged with reddish Veniliornis passerinus. 



i' . Back golden olive without reddish tinge Veniliornis cassini. 



h'. Wing-coverts without spots but with yellowish shaft 

 lines showing through the reddish tips (obsolete in 



some) Veniliornis orenocensis. 



g'. Wing-Quills not barred on inner webs Chloronerpes rubiginosus. l 



'Has been recorded from points in the state of Bermudez, Venezuela and from Brit. Guiana. 



