304 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
Chaetura spinicauda (Temniinck). 
Cypscliis spinicaudus Temm., Tabl. Meth. in PI. Col. I. 1839. p. 57. 
Cliactnra spinicauda Berlepsch & Hartert, p. qi. 
Not observed on the Orinoco by the writer, but recorded by Ber- 
lepsch and Hartert from Suapure on the Caura River. 
Chaetura andrei Berlepsch & Hartert. 
Chaetura andrei Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. p. 91 (Type, 
$ , ex Caicara, Orinoco River, Venezuela. Cherrie Coll. No. 10534.) 
I arrived at Altagracia the first of November, but no specimens of 
this swift were observed until the 2nd of February following; after that 
date they were seen but owing to their habit of flying high up, speci- 
mens were secured with tlie greatest difficulty. Noted as not uncommon 
at Caicara during March and April. 
PICIDAE— THE \\'( )( )nPECKERS. 
Berlepsch and Hartcrt's paper includes seventeen species, fifteen 
of which number were observed and collected by the writer on the 
Orinoco proper, the other two species included in that list came from 
points on the Caura River. 
Key to Cenera, Species and Subspecies of Picidae. 
a. Tail-lV,<('M ■■ ' 1; ,,. lilted. 
6. M„l.i' I in P-d or reddish. 
(1. !■ 1: ' iiil-coverts white, not barred Centurus suheUgans. 
d'. I , ,1 i.iil-coverts white, barred like back Cenlurus terricolor. 
d. V, h , . r. iliary stripe and yellow nuchal band .... Tn'psurus cruenlatus. 
tl' . W ii i I r\ stripe or yellow nuchal band Tripstirus ntbrifrons. 
b'. MiiMl .1 . I, .; I ■ il ur reddish. 
c. I^nlii I'tM 'vim .! IT spotted with black or blackish. 
d. Cliin. throat and sides of head yellow. (In males a short, red 
malar streak) Chloroner pes flavigula. 
d'. Chin, throat and^sides of head not uniform yellow. 
e. Under-parts spotted with black Chrysoptilus piiiuligiila pwic- 
c'. Under parts barred with black 
/. General color of upper parts black 
g Outer hmd toe longer than outer front toe (centre ot 
backlari;eK whitPl "^cipa i m lai lei )s. 
/'. 
ophloi 
'Has been recorded from points in the state of Berniiidcz, Venezuela and from Brit. Gu 
