1919- Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 473 



*Veniliorms oleaginus sanguinolentus (Sdater). Cabot's Wood- 

 pecker. 



Chloronerpes sanguinolentus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 60, pi. 



151 (Omoa, Honduras). 

 Mesopicus sanguinolentus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 76; III, 1862, 



pi. 43, fig. 6. 

 Dendrohates sanguinolentus Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 346. 

 Chloronerpes caboti Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 337 (Choctum, Guatemala). 

 Veniliornis caboti Dearborn, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Om. Ser., I, 1907, p. 92. 

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



VI, 1914, p. 190. 



Range: Southeastern Mexico from southern Vera Cruz (Orizaba, 

 etc.) southward in states of Oaxaca, Tabasco, Yucatan and Chiapas 

 and in Guatemala, British Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa 

 Rica to western Panama. 



6 : Mexico (Tizimin, Yucatan) i ; Guatemala (San Jos6) 3 ; Nicara- 

 gua (Matagalpa) i ; Costa Rica (La Estelle de Cartago) i . 



Veniliornis oleaginus aureus Chapman." Popayan Woodpecker. 



Veniliornis oleaginus aureus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 

 1914, p. 612 (La Sierra, 6800 ft., central Andes south of Popayan, Colombia); 

 Id., XXXVI, 1917, p. 352 (Salencio; Las Lomitas; San Antonio; Gallera; 

 Popayan; La Sierra; Miraflores; Sta. Elena, Colombia). 



Range: Subtropical zone of the western Andes and western slope 

 of the central Andes (and northern portion of eastern Andes?), Colom- 

 bia, and southward into Ecuador. 



i: Venezuela (Paramo de Tama, alt. 7000 ft., south of Cucuta, 

 Colombia, close to the Colombian line).** 



Veniliornis oleaginus reichenbachi (Cabanis and Heine)." Venezue- 

 lan Woodpecker. 



PhcBonerpes reichenbachi Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., IV, 1863, p. 141 



(Caracas, Venezuela). 

 Picus rubidus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picinae, 1866, p. 35 (new name for P. 



reichenbachi Cabanis and Heine). 

 Veniliornis fumigatus fumigatus Hellmayr and Seilern, Arch, fur Naturg., 



Abt. A., 5 Heft, 1912, p. 151, part, crit. (Venezuela). 



' Veniliornis oleaginus aureus Chapman: Similar to V. 0. oleaginus, but back 

 more golden; auricular region paler; wing shorter; bill longer; differs from V. o. 

 sanguinolentus in being larger and in having wings and coverts less washed with 

 golden; white spots on quills larger; the second outer primary with three instead 

 of two spots, the short outer primary usually with trace of white. 



•' A female taken at Paramo de Tama, Venezuela (close to the Colombian line, 

 south of Cucuta, Colombia) approaches nearest to aureus (compared with the type) 

 than with any other known form belonging to the group. Wing, 98; bill, 19. 



• Size smaller, wing about 94; color differences (red on back, etc.) apparently 

 not constant. 



