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Range. — Eastern Colombia to the Guinanas and south to 

 Amazonian Peru and northwestern Brazil. Eastern and southern 

 limits not known. Hargitt records specimens in the British 

 Museum from Chapada and Corumba, Matto Grosso; it has 

 also been recorded from the Rio Pilcomayo. Birds from the 

 southern localities may represent still another race. 



Remarks. — Surinam birds may be regarded as topotypical of 

 the subspecies. Compared with them the Trinidad specimen is 

 small, having a wing of only 177 mm., in color characters it 

 agrees well with Surinam birds and is doubtless referable to 

 the same form. The pair from Perico have the large size of the 

 typical birds, but the posterior underparts are suggestive of 

 the mesorhynchus type of marking. 



Ceophloeus lineatus improcerus Bangs and Penard. 



Ceophloeus lineatus improcerus Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. 62, no. 2, 1918, p. 58 (Bahia. Based on four Bahia 

 'trade skins.'). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to C. I. lineatus Linne but 

 ground color of posterior underparts usually pure white and 

 black bars rather narrower; smaller. 



Measurements. — 2 males, wing 173-174 mm.; bill 38.5-42 mm. 

 2 females, wing 172-183 mm.; bill 35-38 mm. 



Range. — Bahia, and probably other parts of eastern Brazil; 

 limits not known. 



Ceophloeus lineatus fuscipennis (Sclater). 



Dryocopus fuscipennis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, 

 p. 286 (Babahoyo, Ecuador). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to C. I. mesorhynchus, but the 

 black parts of the plumage, particularly the breast, wings, and 

 tail, decidedly brownish black; shafts of wing and tail feathers 

 brown, paler than the quills. 



Measurements. — 2 males, wing 171-184 mm.; bill 39-40 mm. 

 1 female, wing 173 mm.; bill 39 mm. 



Specimens examined. — Ecuador: Daule, 1 male, 1 female; 

 San Jose, 1 female. 



Range. — Western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. 



