DENDEOBATES. 439 



Guatemala, Choctum \ Saonchil, Savana Grande, Eetalhuleu {0. S. & P. D. G.), 

 Pie de la Cuesta in San Marcos ( W. B. Bichardson) ; Costa Rica {Endres), 

 Barranca {Carmiol ^), Turialba (Carmiol^, Zeledon s) ; Pajtama, Cordillera de Tole ^, 

 Cordillera del Chucu ^o, Bugaba (ArcS). 



There is little to distinguish B. caboti with certainty from J), oleagineus, except its 

 smaller size, a character of slight value. The sides of the head in fully adult males 

 are nearly uniformly dark, but in younger birds and in most females light lores and 

 cheeks are usual, and therefore in this respect they resemble B. oleagineus. 



B. caboti was described by Malherbe from specimens supposed to have come from 

 Colombia, and named after Dr. Cabot, the companion of Stephens during his travels in 

 Yucatan. Dr. Cabot, however, does not seem to have met with the species in Yucatan, 

 as no specimen was in his collection when Salvin examined it in 1874. 



Its distribution now has been traced over the lowlands of Guatemala on both sides of 

 the main mountain-chain, and thence southwards to Costa Rica and the forests of the 

 Cordillera of Tole ; but no Woodpecker of this group has been found on the Isthmus 

 of Panama. In South America, from Colombia to Bolivia, B. fumigatus is the 

 prevalent form. 



3. Dendrobates sauguiuolentus. 



Chloronerpes sanguinolentus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 60, t. 151 '•, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 136". 

 Dendrobates sanguinolentus, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 346 '. 



D. caboti similis, sed" dorso toto medio eoecineo suffiiso,- statura quoque pauIo minor. Long, tota circa 6*0, alae 

 3'15, caudsa 1*75. (Desor. maris ex S. Domingo, Nicaragua. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Honduras, Omoa {Leyland ^ 2) ; Nicaeagua, Santo Domingo in Chontales ( W. B. 

 Bichardson), Rio Escondido (Biekmond). 



Mr. Sclater described this Woodpecker from a specimen obtained by Leyland at 

 Omoa, in Honduras. This specimen is in the Derby Museum at Liverpool, and until 

 recently has remained the only one known. About two years ago, Mr. Richardson 

 secured several examples of a Woodpecker of this group at Santo Domingo, in the 

 Province of Chontales, in Nicaragua. One of these is a male with the back richly 

 suffused with dark red, and belongs doubtless to B. sanguinolentus ; the others are 

 not so coloured, nor are two specimens from the Rio Escondido nearer the coast, which 

 formed part of Mr. Richmond's collection. They all, however, agree closely in dimen- 

 sions, and undoubtedly belong to the same species. We have never seen the red 

 colouring of the back on any specimen of B. caboti, and are thus driven to the 

 conclusion that this peculiarity is characteristic of old males of B. sanguinolentus only 

 and that younger males and females are not so adorned. 



Mr. Hargitt considers B. reichenbachi. Cab. & Heine, to belong probably to this 

 species ^. If this is correct, its range extends to Venezuela. 



