408 PICIDA. 
Volcan de Chinandega, Matagalpa, San Rafael del Norte (W. B. Richardson) ; 
Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Hoffmann 11), Barranca (v. Frantzius®, Carmiol>), 
Turrialba (v. Frantzius °, J. Cooper *), Tres Rios (v. Frantzius °), Naranjo de Cartago, 
Rio Sucio, Sarchi de Alajuela (Zeledon °); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui , Cordillera 
del Chucu 12, Bibalaz, Calobre (Arcé).—Co.omB1a 1°; W. Ecuapor ”. 
Dr. Cabot, who accompanied Stephens on his memorable expedition to Central 
America, was the first person to describe this Woodpecker 14, and having found it in 
Yucatan, named it Picus yucatanensis. We have several specimens from that country, 
and we trace its range thence southwards throughout Central America. It also occurs 
in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz as far north as Playa Vicente and in the State of 
Tabasco, a district which belongs rather to Guatemala than to the portion of Mexico 
which lies immediately to the north-westward. A specimen from Tehuantepec, sent us 
by Mr. Richardson, suggests that all Sumichrast’s birds from that neighbourhood belong 
to this species. In Guatemala C. yucatanensis is common in all the mountain-districts 
up to an elevation of about 5000 feet. 
C. yucatanensis can be distinguished from C. wruginosus by the bands of the under 
surface being much straighter, and by the red superciliary streak extending forwards 
to the nostril and sometimes even passing across the forehead. 
3. Chloronerpes auricularis, (Tab. LIX. a. fig. 3,¢.) 
Chloronerpes auricularis, Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, p. 881*; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. 
p. 83%. 
Oleagineo-olivaceus, dorso fere unicolore, alis extus saturatioribus, uropygio pallide viridi-flavo stricte fasciato ; 
capite summo toto cinereo; genis et tectricibus auricularibus albidis cinereo tenuiter fasciatis: subtus 
oleagineis, fasciis pallide viridi-albicantibus hastiformibus vittatus, gula cinerea albo punctata, stria malari 
ufrinque coccinea; alis subtus interne pallide flavis; cauda oleaginea, rectricibus duabus mediis, rhachi- 
dibus et apicibus nigris, rectricibus externis obsolete transfasciatis, subtus olivaceis, rhachidibus flavis; rostro 
et pedibus nigricanti-plumbeis. Long. tota circa 8:0, ale 4-6, caude 2°65, rostri a rictu 1-2, tarsi 0-75, dig. 
med. absque ungue 0°8, dig. ext. 0-6. (Descr. maris exempl. typ. ex Xautipa, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
¢ adhuc ignota. 
Hab. Mexico, Xautipa in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith). 
A single male specimen was obtained by Mrs. Herbert H. Smith during the expedi- 
tion made with her husband to the Sierra Madre del Sur, in the Mexican State of 
Guerrero, in 1888. ‘This specimen was shot in July near the village of Xautipa. No 
more examples have reached us, so that we have not seen a female. That sex, judging 
from what we know to be the case in the closely allied C. godmani, no doubt only 
differs from the male in wanting the red malar stripe on either side of the throat. 
C. auricularis, though resembling in many respects its commoner relatives C. erugi- 
nosus and C. yucatanensis, differs from both in the entire absence of any red on the 
head, with the exception of the malar stripes. The nape is grey like the crown. The 
ear-coverts, too, are somewhat conspicuously banded with grey. 
