476 Field Museum of Natural History — ZoSlogy, Vol. XIII. 



Range: Temperate zone of central Andes, Colombia and northern 

 Ecuador." 



*Veniliomis dignus {Sclater and Salvin). Yellow- vented Wood- 

 pecker. 



Chloronerpes dignus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 20, 

 pi. I (Remedies, Antioquia, Colombia); /d., 1879, p. 533 (Jerico); (?) Good- 

 fellow, Ibis, 1902, p. 209 (Baeza, Ecuador). 



Dryohates dignus Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 351 (Antioquia). 



Veniliornis dignus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 352 

 (San Antonio; Cerro Munchique; Salento; Fusugasuga, Colombia). 



Range: Colombia; eastern Ecuador? 

 i: "Colombia." 



Veniliornis valdizani (Berlepsch and Stolzmann) .^ Valdizan's Wood- 

 pecker. 

 Dendrobates valdizani Berlepsch and Stolzman, Ibis, 1894, p. 401 (Huacras, 

 Vitoc, central Peru, alt. 7000 ft.); Id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1902, p. 33 

 (Lluacras, Vitoc). 

 \Veniliornis\ valdizani Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. So. Am., I, 1912, p. 173. 



Range: Central Peru. 

 ♦Veniliornis passerinus {LinncBus). Passerine Woodpecker. 



Picus passerinus LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., I, ed. 12, 1766, p. 174 ("ex Dominica," 



errore = Cayenne)". 

 Ficus senegalensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 430 (" Senegal "= Cayenne). 

 Picus tephrodops Wagler, Syst. Av. Picus, 1827, sp. 48 (based on Picus sene- 

 galensis Gmelin, ex Buffon and Daubenton, PI. Enl., 345, fig. 2). 

 Picus striolatus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., I, 1831, p. 226. 



Mesopicus passerinus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 59, pi. XLII, figs.4-5. 

 Chloronerpes tephrodops Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 337. 

 Dendrobates tephrodops Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 352. 

 Veniliornis passerinus Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 93 



(Altagracia and Caicara, Orinoco Region, Venezuela); Berlepsch, Nov. 



Zool., XV, 1908, p. 271 (Cayenne); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, 1914, p. 



248 (Mexiana I.; Amape; Monte Alegre; Rio Maecuru; Obidos, Brazil); 



Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 488; Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. 



Arts & Sci., Sci. Bull. II, No. 6, 1916, p. 307 (Common from Ciudad Bolivar 



to Caicara and beyond to mouth of the Meta). 



• Chapman (I. c.) states that a specimen from Mt. Pichincha, northern Ecuador, 

 while not typical, may be referred to equifasciatus. 



•> Veniliornis valdizani (Berlepsch and Stolzmann): Similar to V. dignus, but 

 differs in having wing coverts with large spots of yellowish oUve bordered apically 

 with red; upper tail coverts nearly uniform in coloration; breast and lower throat 

 washed with yellowish olive (instead of whitish green) ; bill smaller. I have not seen 

 an example of this bird. 



» As substituted by Berlepsch and Hartert /. c, p. 93, footnote. 



