472 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



f^ — Back conspicuously barred. 



I — Back strongly barred with yellowish; underparts 

 spotted with yellowish white or whitish bars on 



belly irregular; wing about 94 V. spilogaster, 



(Southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.) 

 c* — With yellow nuchal band present (often more or less obscured by red 

 in the male but distinct in the female), 

 c^ — Back or wings washed with more or less red. 



I — Back strongly washed with red; wing coverts spotted with large 



pinkish white spots; wing about 92 mm V. ruficeps ruficeps. 



(Middle and lower Amazon region, Brazil.) 

 2 — Red wash on back faint; upper wing coverts tipped with red; 

 spots on wing coverts obscure or absent; neck washed with ful- 

 vous; a white line uuder the eye; wing about 93 mm 



V. ruficeps hcBmatostygma. 



(Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and western Brazil.) 

 3 — No fulvous on neck; no white line under eye; red tips to upper 



wing coverts much reduced or absent; wing about 94 



V. orinocensis 



(Orinoco region, Venezuela.) 

 4 — Red wash faintly indicated; wing coverts with buffy spots; 

 central tail feathers transversely spotted and lateral tail feathers 



barred ; wing about 93 mm V. affinis. 



(Eastern and southeastern Brazil, Goyaz to Rio de Janeiro 

 and perhaps farther north.) 

 d* — No red wash on back or wings. 



I — Upper parts and outer webs more or less spotted (not uniform); 



wing about 90 V. maculifrons. 



(Southern Brazil.) 



2 — Upper parts and outer webs of quills uniform (not spotted) 



V. cassini 



(Guiana, eastern Venezuela and northeastern Brazil.) 



*Vemliornis oleaginus oleaginus (Lichtenstein). Oleaginus Wood- 

 pecker. 



Picus oleaginus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Thierw., 1830, p. i (Mexico). 



Id., Journ. fur Omith., 1863, p. 55 (reprint). 

 Dendr abates oleaginus Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 344, part. 

 Chloronerpes oleaginus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, p. 307. 

 Mesopicus oleaginus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 53; IV, 1862, pi. 57, 



figs. 6-7. 

 Veniliornis oleaginus oleaginus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 188. 



Range: Eastern Mexico in states in Vera Cruz (Jalapa, Vera Cruz, 

 Cordova, Orizaba, etc.), San Luis Potosi, Puebla and Mexico (near 

 city of Mexico, etc.). 



2: Mexico (Vera Cruz). 



