48.S BIRDS OF BRITIr^H GUIAXA. 



338. Veniliornis passerinus. 

 Passeri>'e "\^'oodpeckee. 



Picus passerinus Linn. Syst. Xat. 12th ed. i. p. 174. 1766 (Guiana). 

 Dendrohafes passerimis Cab. in Schonib. Eeis. Giiian. iii. p. 716, 1848. 

 Dendrohates teplirodops Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 352, 



1890 (Berbice). 

 YeniUornis passerinus Braboume &. Chubb, B. S. Ainer. i. p. 178, 



no. 1722. 1912. 



AdvU male. Entire back and wings golden olive ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts and quills brown, the last notched with 

 white on the inner webs ; tail dark brown, more or less m;irked 

 with paler brown ; crown of head and nape red ; ear-coverts pale 

 brown ; entire under surface brown barred with white. 



Total length 126 mm., culmen 19, wing 80, tail 43, tarsus 15. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male only in having the 

 crown of the head and nape brown, with pale shaft-Hues to the 

 feathers instead of red. Wing 80 mm. 



The male and female de.scribed were collected at the Takutu 

 Mountains. 



Jh'eedinq-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eags. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 TJiver, Supenaam River, Ireng River [McConnell collection^ ; 

 Berbice River {British Museum). 



E.vtralimital Range. Cayenne. North and North-east Brazil. 



Hahits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 716, no. 220) 

 that he foimd this bird throughout British Guiana. It was 

 generally met with in pairs, and frequented the woods and the 

 trees in the towns and villages. The hal)its are the same as those 

 of the other Woodpeckers. 



339. Veniliornis cassini. 



CaSSIX's WiJuDPECKER. 



Mesopicus cassini Malh. Picidse, ii. jj. .55, pi. Iviii. figs. 2. .S, 1862 



(Brazil). 

 C'hloronerpes sedulus Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 58. 



