MELANERPES. 415 
2 mari similis, sed pileo medio vitta arcuata nigra transfasciato, colore coccineo nullo. (Descr. maris et 
femine exempl. typ. ex Bugaba, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Arcé1). 
This pretty species is only known to us from the few specimens obtained by our 
collector Arcé in the district of Chiriqui, State of Panama. Its nearest ally appears to 
be the Brazilian IZ. flavifrons, from which it may readily be distinguished by the wider 
black band behind the eye and by the lores being entirely yellow instead of black. 
Moreover, in the present bird the throat is a dingy, not a clear, yellow, and the red is 
confined to the lower belly instead of being spread over the whole of the middle of the 
abdomen. 
y. Dorsum nigrum, albo regulariter transfasciatum. 
a’. Abdomen totum nigro transfasciatum. 
3. Melanerpes pucherani. 
Zebrapicus pucherani, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 542+; Mon. Pic. il. p. 227, t. 103. figg. 1-3”. 
Centurus pucherani, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 120°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 229*; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, 
p- 60°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 186°; 1860, p. 437; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 367°; 1867, 
p- 280°; 1870, p. 8387"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 299"; vill. p. 184°; Salv. Ibis, 
1872, p. 8320"; Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 49“; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 240”; Ridgw. 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 583 *°, 5917. 
‘Tripsurus pucherani, Salvad. Atti R. Acc. Sc. Tor. 1868, p. 183”. 
Melanerpes pucherani, Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 406"; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa 
‘Rica, 1887, p.124°°; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 164”. 
Zebrapicus gerinii, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 231”. 
Centurus gerinir, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 131%; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 364%. 
Supra niger, dorso medio albo transfasciato, uropygio et tectricibus supracaudalibus albis ; alis nigris, sparsim 
albo maculatis ; pileo toto et nucha coccineis, fronte albida aurantio tincta ; capitis lateribus albis, macula 
postoculari alba: subtus fuscus, gula albicante, pectore immaculato, abdomine toto nigro transfasciato, ventre 
medio coccineo; cauda nigra, rectricibus mediis unicoloribus (interdum in pogonio interno albo ad basin 
fasciatis), rectricibus subexternis obsolete fasciatis; rostro nigricante, pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 
circa 7°5, ale 4°5, caudee 2-4, rostri a rictu 1°2, tarsi 0°8, dig. med. absque ungue 0°7, dig. ext. 0°65. 
@ mari similis, sed pileo medio albido postice nigro marginato; nucha tantum coccineo. (Descr. maris et 
feminee ex La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba* (Mus. Brit.), Santecomapam (Sallé*), Uvero (Sumichrast ') ; 
British Honpuras (Blancaneaux) ; GuaTeMALA, Coban’, Choctum, Chisec, Yzabal 7 
(0. S. &@ F. D G.); Honpuras, Omoa (Leyland*), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely '), 
Truxillo 1°, R. Segovia” (Townsend); Nicaragua, Blewfields (Wickham), Los 
Sabalos (Nutting 1°), Chontales (Belt !*), La Libertad, Rama (W. B. Richardson), Rio 
Escondido (Richmond), Greytown (Holland *, Richmond); Costa Rica (Durando }, 
v. Frantzius*), Rio Frio (Richmond), San José (Carmiol **), San Carlos, Naranjo 
(Boucard 4), Turrialba (Arcé), Cartago, Jimenez, Rancho Redondo, Talamanca 
(Zeledon ®°); Panama, Lion Hill (/‘Leannan ® ).—Cotomsia 221; W. Ecuapor ?!; 
Tosaao t. 
