420 PICIDZ. 
In Nicaragua VV. hoffmanni appears to be equally common, as Mr. Nutting observed 
it in numbers at most of the localities he explored, and speaks of it as the most 
abundant of the Woodpeckers of the district. Mr. Richardson also found it in 
Nicaragua and sent us several specimens. 
8. Melanerpes santacruzi, 
? Picus albifrons, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 439 (1827)’; Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 514’. 
Centurus albifrons, Cab. J. f£. Orn. 1862, p. 824°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 364°; Salv. Cat. 
Strickl. Coll. p. 399’. | 
Centurus santacruzi, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 116°; Scl. P.Z.S. 1856, p. 3077; 1858, p. 359°; 
1859, p. 367°; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 60”; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 1386"; P. Z.S. 
1870, p. 837; R. Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. 67». 
Melanerpes santacruzi, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 179". 
Picus grateloupensis, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 41 °°. 
Centurus polygrammus, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 826”. 
Centurus aurifrons, Lawr. (nec Wagl.) Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 35°"; Sumichrast, La Nat. 
v. p. 240°. 
Centurus aurifrons santacruzi, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 106”. 
Centurus santacruzi pauper, Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 582 *°. 
Supra niger, dorso toto et alis stricte albo transfasciatis, pileo et nucha coccineis, fronte albida, plumis ad nares 
aurantiis, uropygio et tectricibus supracaudalibus albis: subtus fuscus, olivaceo vix tinctus, gula albida, 
hypochondriis imis et tectricibus subcaudalibus nigro transfasciatis, abdomine medio aurantio, remigibus 
externis nigris, in pogonio interno ad basin tantum albo maculatis ; cauda nigra, rectricibus duabus mediis 
ad basin in pogonio interno albo variegatis, interdum fasciis indistinctis albis notatis, subalaribus nigris 
albo transfasciatis ; rostro et pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota circa 8°5, ale 5:2, caude 2°85, rostri a rictu 
1:5, tarsi 0°85, dig. med. absque ungue 0°7, dig. ext. 0°65. (Descr. maris ex Panajachel, Guatemala. 
Maus. nostr.) 
mari similis, sed pileo toto sordide albido ad nucham fusco, nucha tantum coccinea. 
Hab. Mexico}, Tampico (W. B. Richardson), Las Vigas, Jalapa (de Oca®), Coatepec 
(Ferrari-Perez), Misantla (f. D. G.), Cuesta de Misantla, Vega del Casadero 
(M. Trujillo), Atoyac (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Cordova (Sallé7), Jomotla (M. Trujillo), 
Santana, Plan del Rio, Huatusco, Cuichapa (?), Zentla, Rio Rancho Nuevo, 
Hacienda Tortugas (Ferrari-Perez), Vera Cruz (W. B. Richardson), Orizaba 
_ (Sumichrast 1°), Sochiapa, Playa Vicente (JZ. Trujillo), Juchitan, Sta. Efigenia, 
Chihuitan (Sumichrast 1" 18), Chimalapa, Sierra de S. Domingo, Tehuantepec (W. B. 
Richardson); Guatemaa (Velasquez ®, Constancia®), Santa Maria de Quezalte- 
nango (W. B. Richardson), Salama (Skinner 1"), San Geronimo (R. Owen"), 
Retalhuleu, Escuintla, El Baoul, Duefias ! (0. 8S. & F. D. G.), Toliman, Pana- 
jachel (W. B. Richardson); Wonpuras, Julian, San Pedro (G. MW. Whitely ), 
Truxillo (Townsend *°), Omoa (Leyland 1°), Comayagua (G. C. Zaylor) ; Savapor, 
Volcan de S. Miguel, La Libertad (W. B. Richardson). 
It has frequently been considered that Swainson’s name Picus albifrons' is the correct 
