4io FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII. 



*Chelidoptera tenebrosa brasiliensis (Sclater). SOUTHERN SWALLOW- 

 WING. 



Chelidoptera brasiliensis SCLATER, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 275 (southeastern 

 Brazil); Id., Mon. Jacamars and Puff-birds, 1882, p. 165, pi. 55, fig. 2 (Bahia; 

 Minas Geraes; Pernambuco)*; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 208 

 (Bahia; Minas Geraes; RioClaro; Goyaz)*; NICOLL, Ibis, 1904, p. 40 (Bahia 

 and Itaparica). 



Chilidoptera tenebrosa brasiliensis ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., V, 1893, 

 p. 135 (Matto Grosso); VON IHERING, Revis. Mus. Paulista, V, 1902, p. 281 

 (Bahia); HELLMAYR, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, in text; Id., XV, 1908, p. 86, 

 in text. 



Range: Southeastern Brazil. 



2: Brazil (near Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes). 



Suborder PICI. 



Family PICID^E. Woodpeckers, etc. 



Subfamily Picinae. 

 Genus COLAPTES Vigors. 



Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., pt. Ill, 1825, p. 457, footnote (Type, 

 by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linnaeus). 



*Colaptes auratus auratus (Linnceus). FLICKER. 



Cuculus auratus LINN/EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. 112 (Carolina). 



Picus auratus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1766, p. 174. 



Colaptes auratus BAIRD, BREWER and RIDGWAY, Hist. N. A. Bds., II, 1874, p. 



575, part, pi. 55, figs. 1-2; HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVII, 1890, p. 12, 



part. 

 Colaptes auratus auratus RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 14. 



Range: Southeastern United States from Florida and the Gulf 

 Coast, north to North Carolina and west to southwestern Indiana, 

 southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri, and central Texas. 



fax: Florida (Juno i, Dunedin i, Tampa i, Starke i, W. Jupiter 7, 

 Gainesville 2, Lake Worth i, New River i, Punta Rassa i, Pine Island 

 2); Mississippi (Holley Springs) 2; Illinois (Mound City) i. 



Colaptes auratus luteus b Bangs. NORTHERN FLICKER. 



Sclater records C. t. brasiliensis from Pernambuco and Goyaz, but Hellmayr 

 has recorded C. t. tenebrosa from Goyaz. It is probable that typical brasiliensis is 

 confined to southeastern Brazil. 



b Hybrids of Colaptes auratus luteus and Colaptes cafer collaris have been named 

 by various authors, among which are the following: Picus ayresii AUDUBON, Bds. 

 Am., Oct. ed., VII, 1844, p. 348, pi. 494 (Upper Missouri R.); Colaptes hybridus 

 BAIRD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., IX, 1858, p. 122 (Valleys of Upper Missouri and 

 Yellowstone Rivers); Picus hybridus aurato-mexicanusSvxvEV ALL, Consp. Picinarum, 

 1866, p. 72. 



