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Although Berlepsch and Hartert give the habitat of this species as 

 covering the. region from Angostura (Ciudad Bolivar) to Munduapo, 

 inclusive, it was not observed below the falls of Attires by the writer, 

 its place being taken on the middle stretches of the river between the 

 mouth of the -Meta River and Ciudad Bolivar by the following species. 



Eye vandyke brown; bill above black, below slate grey; feet olive 

 plumbeous. 



In the American Museum are two specimens from Boca de Sina, 

 Cunucunuma River, Upper Orinoco. 



VENILIORNIS PASSERINUS (Linnaeus). 

 Picus passerinus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 174. 

 Veniliornis passerinus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 93 (in part). 



Common from Ciudad Bolivar to Caicara and beyond as far as 

 the mouth of the Meta. 



Eye dark sepia brown ; bill black; feet plumbeous olive. 



CELEUS ELEGANS HELLMAYRI Berlepsch. 

 Celeus elegans hellmayri Berlepsch, Novit. Zool. XV: 1908: 272 (Brit. 



Guiana; Venezuela). 

 Celeus elegans reichenbachi Hellmayr, Novit. Zool. XIII: 1906: p. 40 



(Guanoco, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela). 



There is a specimen, an adult female, in the American Museum col- 

 lection, that was taken by Klages at La Union, Caura River, Oct. 7, 

 1901. 



The absence of pale shaft-streaks or spots on the feathers of the 

 back and upper wing-coverts (as pointed out by Hellmayr) serves to 

 distinguish this race from elegans elegans and elegans leotaudi. 



CELEUS JUMANA (Spix). 



Picus jumana Spix, Av. Bras. I. 1824. p. 57. PI. 47, figs. I $ , 2 9 . 

 Celeus jumana Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 94. 



Common on the upper river from Perico onwards, as far as I col- 

 lected. 



CELEUS GRAMMICUS (Malherbe). 



Picus grammicus Malh., Mem. Soc. Roy. Liege, 1845. p. 69. 

 Celeus grammicus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 94. 



Not common. Taken onlv at Munduapo and Nericagua. 



