308 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



CERCHNEIPICUS TORQUATUS (Boddaert). 

 Picus torquatus Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783. p. 52. 

 Cerchneipicus torquatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 94. 



Not observed by the writer. Recorded by Berlepsch and Hartert 

 from Suapure and from La Pricion on the Caura River, and there are 

 two specimens from La Union in the American Museum collection. 



CROCOMORPHUS PLAVUS (Mull.). 

 Picus flavus Mull., Syst. Nat. Supplement, 1776. p. 91. 

 Crocomorphus flavus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 94. 



Not observed below Altagracia but collected there, at Caicara, and 

 up as far as the falls of Maipures. 



Eye carmine red; bill chrome yellow shading into sulphur yellow at 

 the base of the mandible; feet dark pea green. 



This species I did not see in the sparsely wooded savanna districts. 

 It kept to the heavier forests along the Orinoco. The call notes of 

 this woodpecker are somewhat like those of our Great-crested Fly- 

 catcher not what one expects from a woodpecker. They are usually 

 seen in pairs or family parties of two adults and three or four imma- 

 ture birds. Specimens that I have collected have had the feet invariably 

 covered with a mass of small black ants (dead) held by some sticky sub- 

 stance, and the birds themselves have a strong odor of formic acid. 



SCAPANEUS RUBRICOLLIS (Boddaert). 

 Picus rubricollis Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783. p. 37. 

 Campephilus rubricollis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 95. 



Rare, seen only in the heavily wooded region above the falls. Two 

 specimens were collected at Munduapo. 



Eye light lemon yellow ; bill pale horn color, ridge of culmen dusky 

 and base of mandible shaded with greenish; feet dark sage green. 



SCAPANEUS MELANOLEUCOS (Gmelin). 

 Picus melanoleucos Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 462. 

 Campephilus melanoleucus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 95. 



Native name Carplniero Soldado. Not rare, but very wary and 

 somewhat difficult to collect. Keeps to heavily timbered districts. 

 Noted and specimens collected at Ciudad Bolivar, but rarely below 

 the mouth of the Apure. Seen on the upper river as far as I extended 

 my explorations. 



