BANGS AND PENARD: SURINAM BIRDS. 



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Ceophloeiis lineatua lineatus. 



129. PicuMNUS SPILOGASTER Sundevall. 



Ten specimens, both sexes, all from Vicinity of Paramaribo, March, 

 April, ]May, and December. 



130. PicuMNUS BUFFONi BUFFONi Lafresnayc. 



Five specimens, both .sexes. Vicinity of Paramaribo, and Lelydorp. 



\Ke have compared our specimens with Lafresnaye's types M. C. Z. 

 76,026-76,029. 



The bird listed by F. P. and A. P. Penard (De vogels van Guyana, 

 190S, 1, p. 559) as Picumnus penardi Scl., no doubt is identical with this 

 species, so far as we can judge from the description and from the 

 material at hand. The fact that F. P. and A. P. Penard give P. 

 buffoni Lafr., with a query, as synonym, seems to strengthen this 

 view. We cannot find any reference to a description of the species 

 by Sclater whom these writers cite as authority, but A. P. Penard 

 informs us that a number of birds were sent to P. L. Sclater for identi- 

 fication, and that among those returned was one bearing on the label 

 the name Picumnus penardi Sclater. It is possible that Sclater in- 

 tended to describe the bird by that name, but that later he found it 

 to be identical with Picumnus buffoni Lafr. 



Berlepsch (Nov. zool., 1908, 15, p. 274) considers P. undidatus 

 Hargitt of British Guiana a subspecies of P. buffoni. 



