CHERRIE : ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO REGION. 3O9 
Ceophloeus lineatus (Linnaeus). 
Picas lineatus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 1766. p. 174. 
Ceophloeus lineatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 95. 
This, like the preceding species, is known as Carpintero Soldado 
Not uncommon on the middle Orinoco from some distance below 
Ciudad Bolivar to the falls of Atures. 
Eye straw yellow; bill dusky slate above, whitish below; feet 
plumbeous. 
PicuMNus LEUCOGASTER Pelzeln. 
Ficumnus leucogaster Pelz., Orn. Bras. 1869. pp. 241, 335; Berlepsch & 
Hartert. p. 95. 
Not common. This is the only species of Picumnus seen on the 
middle Orinoco. Specimens were collected at Altagracia and Caicara. 
Picumnus undulatus Hargitt. 
Picumnus undulatus Hargitt, Ibis 1889. p. 354; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 
95- 
Rare on the Orinoco where two specimens only were collected 
by the writer on the upper river, one at Perico in September and the 
other at Nericagua in March. 
Not uncommon on the Caura River, as Berlepsch and Hartert 
record specimens from La Union, Suapure, La Pricion and Nicare. 
Picumnus steelae* Berlepsch & Hartert. 
Picumnus stellae Berlepsch & Hartert. Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. p. 96 
(Type, 9 ex Maipures. Orinoco River). 
This was the common form of Picumnus on the upper river. It 
was not observed below the falls of Atures. 
Eye seal lirown ; bill black, basal half of mandible slate grey; feet 
plumbeous. 
CUCULIDAE— THE CUCKOOS. 
Berlepsch and Hartert include ten species in their list. Nine of 
the ten were collected on the Oririoco proper by the writer, and one 
{Piaya mclanogastra), noted only from its tributary, the Caura River. 
