416 PICIDA, 
Melanerpes pucherani, though belonging to the section of the genus with the back 
barred with black and white, is aberrant, inasmuch as the whole of the abdomen, from 
the breast downwards, is barred; the lesser wing-coverts and the primaries externally 
are spotless black ; and there are other points of difference. 
The species has a very wide range over the whole of our region from the Mexican 
State of Vera Cruz southwards, and passes into Colombia and Western Ecuador. So 
far as we know, it does not occur in Western Mexico or the part of Guatemala 
bordering the Pacific Ocean, but keeps strictly to the denser forests of the low-lying 
lands of the eastern side of the main mountain-range, not ascending the hills to any 
great elevation. 
According to Fraser, who obtained specimens in Western Ecuador, the irides are 
hazel. 
6'. Corpus subtus unicolor, ventre imo et tectricibus subcaudalibus tantum fasciatis. 
a!'. Capitis latus, circum oculos haud nigro notatus. 
a". Uropygium et tectrices supracaudales plerumgue pure albi *. 
4, Melanerpes wagleri. 
Picus tricolor, Wagl. (nec Gm.), Isis, 1829, p. 512°. 
Centurus tricolor, Cab. J. £. Orn. 1862, p. 3277; Scl. & Salv. P.Z. 8S. 1864, p. 367°; Salv. P.Z.S. 
1867, p. 157*; 1870, p. 213°. 
Melanerpes tricolor, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 174°. 
Centurus subelegans, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 119 (nec P. Z.S. 1837, p. 109)*; Scl. P.Z.S. 1856, 
p. 143°. 
Centurus rubriventris, Lawr. (nec Sw.), Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 299°. 
Supra niger, frequenter albo transfasciatus, pileo toto et nucha coccineis, fronte albida ad nares flavo tincta, 
tectricibus supracaudalibus albis; capitis lateribus et corpore subtus sordide albis, abdomine medio 
coccineo, hypochondriis imis et tectricibus subcaudalibus nigro transfasciatis ; alis nigris, albo guttatis et 
fasciatis, remigibus externis ad basin tantum in pogonio externo fasciatis; cauda nigra, rectricibus sub- 
externis ad apicem et mediis fere omnino albo distincte transfasciatis ; rostro et pedibus plumbeis. Long. 
tota circa 7:0, alee 4:2, caude 2°1, rostri a rictu 1-2, tarsi 0°78, dig. med. absque ungue 0°67, dig. ext. 0°6. 
2 mari similis, sed pileo toto sordide albido, nucha tantum coccinea. (Descr. maris et femine ex Lion Hill, 
Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, David (Bridges ®), Cordillera de Tolé 4, Castillo ®, Chitra ®, Calovevora ®, 
Santa Fé4 (Arcé), Lion Hill (/‘\Leannan? °), Paraiso Station (Hughes).—CoLomB1a?; 
VENEZUELA ”. : 
Wagler’s name for this species cannot be retained. It was based upon a bird 
supposed to be the Picus tricolor of Gmelin, a name applied to the Mexican 
‘ Quauhchochopitli” of Hernandez!, which, though probably a Melanerpes, cannot 
‘now be’ recognized, but was certainly not the present bird. It is, no doubt, the 
¥ Centurus subelegans of Bonaparte’s ‘ Conspectus ;’ but, unfortunately, this name was first 
* In some island-specimens of WM. dubius these parts are irregularly banded. 
