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Chrysoptilus punctigula punctigula (Boddaert). Cayenne Wood- 

 pecker. 



Picus punctigula Boddaert, Tabl. PL Enl., 1783, p. 37 (Cayenne). 



Chrysoptilus punctigula Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 116; 

 Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 271 (Cayenne). 



Chrysoptilus punctigula punctigula Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 

 XXII, 1906, p. 607 (Surinam, Paramaribo and Cayenne); Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 1914, p. 612, in key; Cory, Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., Orn. Ser., I, 1915, p. 305, in key; Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., LXII, No. 2, 1918, p. 56 (Paramaribo, Surinam). 



Range: Cayenne and Surinam; northern Brazil?" 



Key to the races of Chrysoptilus punctigula (Boddaert). 

 A — Throat black, spotted with white. 



a — Upper parts brownish golden olive; bill shorter; wing about no. 



C. p. punctigula 



(Cayenne and Surinam) 

 b — Upper parts slightly more golden olive; bill longer; wing about 



112 C. p. guttatus 



(Amazon region, from northeastern Brazil to eastern Peru 

 and southeastern Colombia) 

 c — Upper parts much less golden and more green; size larger; 



wing about 118 C. p. punctipectus 



(Venezuela and eastern Colombia) 

 d — Upper parts approaching punctipectus, but throat blacker, with 



spots smaller; breast more heavily spotted C. p. zulia 



(Lower Catatumbo River region (Zulia), W. Venezuela) 

 e — Black spots on underparts (chest and flanks) very large; rump 

 and upper tail coverts only slightly yellowish and heavily 



barred with black C. p. notata 



(Colombia definite type locality unknown) 

 B — Throat white, streaked with black 



a — Black bars on feathers of upper parts broad; spots below par- 

 ticularly on flanks larger C. p. striatigularis 



(Interior of Colombia, west of the eastern Andes) 

 b — Black bars on feathers of upper parts smaller and narrow and 

 more or less obscure; spots on underparts smaller and less 



numerous C. p. ujhelyii 



(Arid coast region of northern Colombia) 



♦Chrysoptilus punctigula guttatus (Spix). Spix's Woodpecker. 



Picus guttatus Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 61, pi. LIII, fig. i ("in sylvis flum. 



Amazonum"). 

 Chrysoptilus punctigula guttatus Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., XXII, 



1906, p. 607 (Rio Negro, Manaos and Santarem); Id., Nov. Zool., XIV, 



1907, p. 79 (Teffe, Rio SoHmoes); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXIII, p. 612, in key; Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Orn. Sen, I, 1915, p. 

 305, in key; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 348 

 (La MoreHa, Amazonian Colombia). 



(?) Chrysoptilus speciosus Malherbe (ex Sclater MS) Mon. Picidae, IV, 1862, 

 pi. LXXXVII, fig. 5^. 



* It is possible that the range of C. p. punctigula may be found to extend to the 

 greater part of the Amazon Valley (c/ Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 349, 

 in text), and that the range of C. p. guttatus is confined to the upper Amazon region, 



•• I am in doubt regarding C. speciosus Malherbe. In this connection see Hell- 

 mayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., XXII, 1906, p. 607, and Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 117 (footnote). 



