1919- Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 457 



♦Crocomorphus flavus peruvianus* subsp. nov. Peruvian Yellow 

 Woodpecker. 



Range: Northern Peru. 



2: Peru (Lower Huallaga River). 



Genus CEOPHLOEUS Cabanis. 



Ceophlasus Cabanis, Journ. fur Ornith., 1862, p. 176 (Type Picus lineatus Lin- 

 naeus). 



*Ceophloeus lineatus lineatus {LinncBus). Lineated Woodpecker. 



Picus lineatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, p. 174 (Cayenne); Boddaert 

 Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783 (ex Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 717). 



Dryopicus lineatus Malherbe, Mon. Picidag, I, 1861, p. 39; III, 1862, pi. 12, 

 figs. 4, 5, 6, 7: Taczanowski, Orn. P^rou, III, 1886, p. 75 (Peru). 



Ceophloeus lineatus Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 508, part; 

 Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902, p. 34 (La Merced; 

 La Gloria, Peru); Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. ZooI. IX, 1902, p. 95 

 (Caicara; Altagracia; Ciudad Bolivar, etc., Venezuela); Hellmayr, Nov. 

 Zool., XIII, 1906, p. 40 (Trinidad); Id., XIV, 1907, p. 26 (Itaituba, Lower 

 Amazon); Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 274 (Cayenne); Chubb, 

 Ibis, 1910, p. 283 (Sapucay, Paraguay); Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1913, p. 200 (Cariaquito, Venezuela); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 



1914, p. 254 (Pard; St. Antonio do Prata; Marajo; Mexiana, etc., Brazil); 

 Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Munchen, XXVI, 2, 1912, p. 94 

 (Pard District). 



Ceophlceus lineatus lineatus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 147, in key, part; Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, 

 1918, p. 58 (Paramaribo, Surinam). 



Range: Eastern Colombia; Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas, 

 northern Brazil, Ecuador and Peru; also recorded from southern Brazil, 

 Paraguay, Bolivia, and northern Argentina, but birds from southern 

 localities probably represent a different subspecies.*" 



16: British Guiana (Demerara River i, Potaro i, "British Guiana" 

 2) ; Dutch Guiana (Paramaribo) 2 ; Venezuela (Maracay i , Rio Aurare i , 

 Guayabo i, Orope, Zulia 2, Encontrados, Zulia i); Brazil, (Boa Vista, 

 Rio Branco i, base of Serra da Lua, near Boa Vista 3). 



*Ceophloeus lineatus improcerus Bangs and Penard." Lesser Lin- 

 eated Woodpecker. 



• Crocomorphus flavus peruvianus subsp. nov. Type from Lagunas, Lower 

 Huallaga River, Peru. Adult female. No. 44588, Field Museum of Natural History. 

 Collected by M. P. Anderson, October 17, 1912. Similar to C. f. inornata Cherrib 

 of the Amazon region, but differs in having the general plumage deeper yellow, de- 

 cidedly orange yellow. Wing, 138; tail, 105; bill, 25 mm. 



^ Possibly C. I. improcerus Bangs and Pei^ard. 



• Ceophloeus lineatus improcerus Bangs and Penard : Similar to C. I. lineatus 

 (Linn.), but smaller. Wing, 175-180. 



