Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 589 



A common resident in all portions of the country above 6,000 feet, 

 sometimes taken down as low as 4,000 feet, but most abundant on the 

 high volcanoes. I found it the commonest woodpecker on the Volcan 

 de Irazu, and not only abundant, but the only species on the Volcan 

 de Turrialba, where it is present right up to timber-line. 



It is normally an inhabitant of the thick damp forests found every- 

 where at the altitude which it frequents, although it seems to have 

 adapted itself to the changed conditions on the high volcanoes, which 

 have been cleared of the forest in many places, the land now having 

 been made into pastures, with many trees scattered through them. 

 Here the birds seem to be perfectly at home and find conditions 

 suitable for their increase. 



324. Veniliornis caboti (Malherbe). 



Mesopicus caboti Malherbe, Mon. Pic, II, 1862, 53, pi. 57, fig. 1 and 2. 



Chloronerpes oleagineus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 131 (Barranca 

 and Turrialba [J. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 364 (Costa 

 Rica). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 124 (Costa Rica). — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 476 (Jimenez [Alfaro]). 



Dendrobates caboti Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 344 (Costa 

 Rica [Endres]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, II, 1895, 

 438 (Mexico to Panama). 

 Veniliornis caboti Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, 204 (critical). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : San Bernardo (Alfaro and Carranza), Jimenez 



(Alfaro). 

 Bangs Collection : El General de Terraba and La Hondura (Under- 

 wood). 

 Carnegie Museum : Guacimo (Carriker). One skin. 



This is a very rare woodpecker in Costa Rica, but few specimens 

 having been taken in that country. In all my collecting I never met 

 with but one, which I secured in the heavy forest at Guacimo. All 

 but one of the published records and all of the skins examined came 

 from the Caribbean slope, between 800 and 4,000 feet. There is 

 but one record for the Pacific slope, Lawrence recording one or more 

 specimens from Barranca, collected by J. Carmiol. 



325. Veniliornis neglectus Bangs. 



Dendrobates cecilice Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 366, part 

 (Chiriqui to Colombia). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1890-1, 46 (Palmar 

 de Terraba, one specimen). — Salvin and Godman, Bio). Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 II, 440, part (Panama to Ecuador). 



