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*Picumnus cinnamomeus venezuelensis" (Cory). Venezuelan Cin- 

 namon PiCULET. 



Picumnus venezuelensis Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Orn. Ser., I, No. 7, 1913, 

 p. 288 (Encontrados, Zulia, northwestern Venezuela). 



Ranpje: Low, humid, forested region of northwestern Venezuela. 

 I : Venezuela (Encontrados, Zulia) ; the type specimen. 



Picumnus castelnaui Malherhe. Castelnau's Piculet, 



Picumnus castelnaui Malherbe, Men. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 281 (not plate); 



Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 528. 

 Picumnus castelnaudi Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 



196; Id., 1873, p. 290; Taczano^sski, Orn. P^rou, III, 1886, p. 64. 



Range : Ecuador and Peru. 



*Picuinnus leucogaster Pelzeln. White-bet.lied Piculet. 



Picumnus leucogaster Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, p. 241 (Rio Branco, north- 

 em Brazil); Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 95 (Alta- 

 gracia and Caicara, Orinoco region, Venezuela); Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn 

 Inst. Arts and Sci., Sci. Bull., II, No. 6, 1916, p. 309 (Altagracia and Cai- 

 cara, middle Orinoco River, Venezuela). 



Picumnus castelnaui Malherbe, Mon. Picida2, III, 1862, pi. 117, figs. 

 1-2 (not text, II, 1862, p. 281). 



Range: Northern Brazil (Rio Branco region, etc.) northward to 

 middle Orinoco region, Venezuela. 

 2: Brazil (Boa Vista, Rio Branco). 



Picumnus fuscus Pelzeln. Dusky Piculet. 



Picumnus fuscus Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1 870, 335 (Guapore) ; Pelzeln and Lorenz, 

 Ann. k.-k. Naturalist. Hofm. Wien, 1888, p. 42; Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 530. 



Range: Rio Guapore, west of Matto Grosso, Brazil. 



Picumnus temminckii Lafresnaye. Temminck's Piculet. 



Picumnus temminckii Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1845, pp. 6; iii (Paraguay); 

 Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, p. 240, 442; Berlepsch and von Ihering, 

 Madar. Zeitsch. Gesmamm. Orn., II, 1885, p. 156, pi. IX, fig. 2. 



» Picumnus cinnamomeus venezuelensis (Cory) : Approaches P. cinnamomeus 

 cinnamomeus, but differs in being darker and having the under parts deeper chest- 

 nut; the anterior part of the forehead rufous chestnut, and no white spots on the 

 posterior part of the crown. Back, rump and scapulars rufous brown; under parts 

 darker approaching deep rufous chestnut; nape and sides of the head dark like the 

 under parts; frontal band rufous chestnut on anterior part, shading posteriorly into 

 buff; crown black, the feathers broadly tipped with golden yellow nearly as in cin- 

 namomeus but without white spots at the extreme hinder part as in that species; 

 wings and tail as in cinnamomeus. Length (skin), 97 mm.; wing, 53; tail, 33; 

 bill, 12; tarsus, 12. 



