iQiQ- Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 435 



*Chloronerpes xanthochlonis Sclater and Salvin. Green and Yellow 

 Woodpecker. 



Chloronerpes xanthochlorus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, 

 p. 237 (San Cristobal, Tachira, Venezuela); Id., 1879, p. 533 (Remedios, 

 Antioquia, Colombia); Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 73, 

 pi. I; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 347 (Remo- 

 lino, lower Magdalena River, Colombia). 



Range: Northwestern Venezuela and northern Colombia. 

 3 : Venezuela (Catatumbo i ; Orope, Zulia i ; Rio Aurare i). 



Chloronerpes erythropsis ( Vieillot) . Red-faced Green Woodpecker. 



Picus erythropsis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXVI, 1818, p. 98 ("Bre- 



sil"). 

 Picus icterocephalus (nee Latham) Spix, Av. Bras., 1824, I, p. 62, pi. 54, fig. i 



(female). 

 Chloronerpes erythrops Gray, Gen. Bds., II, 1846, p. 443. 



Chloropicus erythropsis Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 143, pi. 87, figs. 1-2. 

 Chloronerpes erythropes Pelzeln, Om. Bras., 1870, p. 244. 

 Chloronerpes erythropsis Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 75 



(Pemambuco; Bahia; Rio Janeiro); Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 



XXII, 1906, p. 608 (Spix's Types). 



Range: Northeastern, eastern and southeastern Brazil. 



Chloronerpes leucolaemus (Malherbe). White-throated Green 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus leucolcemus Malherbe, Mem. Soc. Roy. Li^ge, 1845, p. 68 ("Bresil"). 

 Chloropicus isidori Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1850, p. 154. 

 Chloropicus leucolcemus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 145, pi. 85, figs. 3-4. 

 Chloronerpes leucolcemus Taczanowski, Orn. Pdrou, III, 1886, p. 85; Hargitt, 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 76 (Bogotd;" Sarayacu, Ecuador; En- 



genho-do-Gama, Brazil). 



Range: Matto Grosso, Brazil, to eastern Ecuador; Colombia? 



Chloronerpes litae Rothschild.^ Rothschild's Green Woodpecker. 



Chloronerpes lita Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XI, 1901, p. 70 (Lita, 

 alt. 3000 ft., N. Ecuador); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 

 1917. P- 347i crit. (Baudo Mts., Colombia). 



Range: Northern Ecuador and southern Colombia. 



' A purchased specimen which may not have come from Bogotd. 



•> Chloronerpes litce Rothschild: Approaches C. leucolcEtnus, but differs in hav- 

 ing the bases of the primaries uniform chestnut, this color increasing in extent on 

 outer webs from first to last primary and extending over the whole outer webs on all 

 except the innermost ones (not widely edged with green as in C. leucolcemus); red 

 of crown and moustache much darker; upper surface darker greenish olive; the 

 central cream-colored marking on chest more streak-like than rounded. 



