54 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 134 
The paler coloration of these birds separates them clearly from 
the typical form. The tendency toward reduced red on the head of 
the male is found occasionally in specimens of C. r. rubricapillus 
from the more eastern part of its range in Colombia and from the 
western section in Venezuela. It seems probable that the area in- 
habited by paraguanae is continuous around the western shore of the 
Gulf of Venezuela in extreme northern Zulia. 
VENILIORNIS KIRKII CECILII (Malherbe): Red-rumped Woodpecker, 
Carpintero Rabadillaroja 
Mesopicos Cecilii MALHERBE, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 1, November 1849, 
p. 538. (Colombia. ) 
As I found these birds on four occasions only it was my assump- 
tion that few were present, though this may be erroneous since they 
live amid leafy branches where it is difficult to see them. The three 
secured were shot in the lower forest growth near the shore, as they 
climbed along the smaller branches. Near Catival two were seen in 
company, but elsewhere the birds appeared to be alone. Probably they 
range also through the high woodlands inland, as I saw one at the 
forest edge above the Colonia Central. In such haunts they would 
escape detection, except occasionally, because of their subdued colors 
and quiet movements. I was somewhat troubled to find that the 
crown feathers were so loosely attached that there was some slipping 
in spite of every care in preparation of my specimens. 
The three taken are identified with the form found in Darién and 
the Comarca de San Blas in eastern Panama, which ranges south 
through Colombia to western Ecuador, an interesting fact since the 
darker-colored V. k. neglectus of western Chiriqui and southwestern 
Costa Rica geographically is a near neighbor, much closer at hand. 
The Coiba specimens appear to be slightly smaller, with smaller bills, 
but are not sufficiently different to warrant separation on basis of the 
present series. One of the three, taken January I1, is a fully grown 
juvenile with barring on the lower surface averaging faintly narrower 
than in the other two. 
Family FuURNARIIDAE: Ovenbirds, Spinetails 
CRANIOLEUCA VULPINA (Pelzeln): Rusty Spinetail, Coli-aguda Rojiza 
Synallaxis vulpina PELZELN, Sitzungsb. Kon. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Cl., 
vol. 20, 1856, p. 162. (Engenho do Gama, Rio Guaporé, Mato Grosso.) 
This is a bird of forest tangles and dense undergrowth where it 
clambers quietly but actively through creepers or matted branches, 
