CEOPHL@US. 45] 
Geronimo, Duefias, Savana Grande, Retalhuleu (0. 8S. & F. D. G.); Satvapor, La 
Libertad (W. B. Richardson) ; Hoypuras, Omoa (Leyland ®), Truxillo (Townsend ""), 
San Pedro (G@. M. Whitely 8), Tigre I. (G. C. Taylor+); Nicaragua, Leon, Momo- 
tombo(W. B. Richardson), Sucuya (Nutting 2°), Rio Escondido (Richmond) ; * Costa 
Rica (Carmiol !°), Aguacate Mts. (Hoffmann), Candelaria (Zeledon 18), 
This is one of the commonest of the larger Woodpeckers of our region, its range 
being very similar to that of Campophilus guatemalensis, the southern limit of the two 
species reaching Costa Rica, but not extending beyond into the State of Panama, where 
its place is taken by C. lineatus. In Mexico its northern range is more extensive, as it 
has been traced in the west to the Sierra de Alamos in Sonora by Mr. W. Lloyd, and 
in the east to the Hacienda de la Cruz and Villa Grande in Nuevo Leon by Mr. Arm- 
strong and to the Sierra above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas by Mr. Richardson. 
From these points it is found uninterruptedly throughout Central America on both 
sides of the main Cordillera, perhaps as far as Costa Rica. Its range in altitude is 
rather less than that of C. guatemalensis, as we have no record of it at higher elevations 
in Guatemala than the woods near Duefias—that is, about 5000 feet above sea-level. 
The iris in life is white. 
2. Ceophleus lineatus. 
Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 174. 
Dryocopus lineatus, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 5322. 
Ceophleus lineatus, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus, xviii. p. 508°. 
Dryocopus scapularis, Lawr. (nec Vigors), Ann. Lyc. N. Y, vii. p. 383+. 
Dryocopus fuscipennis, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 366’. 
C. scapulart similis, sed major, rostro corneo nec eburneo, subalaribus albicantioribus facile distinguendus. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Kellett & Wood *), Santa Fé (Arcé), Lion Hill (IM‘Leannan +>), 
Chepo (Arcé).—Soutn America, from Colombia to Brazil 3, 
This common South-American Woodpecker, whose range extends over nearly the 
whole of the northern part of the continent, and even reaches the south-western and 
eastern provinces of Brazil, entirely replaces C. scapularis in the State of Panama. We 
have several records of it from that State, a specimen obtained by Capt. Kellett and 
Capt. Wood in Chiriqui being the most westerly occurrence. Arcé sent us examples 
from Santa Fé and also from Chepo, and M‘Leannan found it on the Line of the 
Panama Railway. The birds sent us by the latter collector were referred by Sclater 
and Salvin to C. fuscipennis of Western Ecuador, with an expressed doubt as to the 
distinctness of that bird from C. lineatus, and in the ‘Nomenclator Avium N eotropica- 
lium’ they were considered identical. Hargitt, however, in his ‘ Catalogue,’ resuscitates 
C. fuscipennis as a distinct species, but places the Panama birds with C. lineatus. On 
re-examining the question, and in view of the worn and faded condition of the types 
of C. fuscipennis, we do not hesitate to adhere to the opinion expressed in the 
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