422 FIELD MUSEUM or NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII. 



Centurus subelegans subelegans RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 52, in key; CHERRIE, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci., Sci. Bull., 

 II, 1916, p. 305 (Ciudad Bolivar and Caicara). 



Melanerpes terricolor terricolor HELLMAYR and SEILERN, Arch, fur Naturg., Abt. 

 A, 5 Heft, 1912, p. 150 (Cumbre Chiquita, S. Esteban). 



Range: Venezuela; Margarita Island; Tobago Island; Trinidad?; 

 British Guiana? 



t45: Venezuela (Macuta, Caracas 14, Cumana 3, Maracay, Aragua 

 6, Puerto Cabello i, La Ceiba, Trujillo i); Tobago I. 6; Margarita I. 

 13; "Trinidad" (purchased) i. 



*Centurus subelegans rubricapillus 1 * (Cabanis). RED-CROWNED WOOD- 

 PECKER. 



Centurus rubricapillus CABANIS, Journ. fur Ornith., X, 1862, p. 328 (Barran- 



quilla, Colombia); RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 53, 



footnote. 

 Picus tricolor (nee Gmelin) WAGLER, Isis, 1829, p. 512 (" Mexico " Cartagena, 



Colombia). 



Melanerpes tricolor HARGITT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 174. 

 Zebrapicus tricolor MALHERBE, Mon. Picidae, 1862, p. 247, part; IV, 1862, pi. 



106, figs. 1-2. 

 Melanerpes subelegans neglectus RICHMOND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 1896, 



p. 668 (Bogota). 

 Melanerpes wagleri sancte-marta BANGS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, 1898, p. 



134 (Santa Marta, Colombia). 

 Centurus subelegans neglectus RIDGWAY, Bull U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



p. 52, in key. 

 Centurus subelegans sanctce-marta RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



VI, 1914, p. 53, in key. 

 Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



XXXVI, 1917, p. 351 (Upper Sinu River; Algodonal; Magdalena River; 



Honda; Chicoral, Colombia). 

 Melanerpes wagleri SALVIN and GODMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1895, p. 



416 (Lion Hill, Panama). 

 Melanerpes subelegans wagleri RICHMOND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 1896, 



p. 668 (Panama and coast of Colombia). 

 Centurus subelegans wagleri RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



p. 73; STONE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1918, p. 259 (Panama). 



Range: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and western Venezuela. 



I am unable to verify the characters claimed to distinguish wagleri or neglectus 

 and am inclined not to recognize any of the supposed subspecies. Birds from Tobago, 

 Margarita and northeastern Venezuela very often have the rump and upper tail 

 coverts conspicuously spotted or barred ( = terricolor Berlepsch), but others from the 

 same localities do not. The red crown (continuous or broken) is another variable 

 character, as is also the marking on the middle rectrices. There is considerable 

 difference in size, especially in length of wing (often in birds from the same locality), 

 but it is variable and appears to have no geographical significance. The best that 

 can be said is that the differences given by Ridgway (/. c., in key, pp. 52-53) for 

 subelegans and sancta-martce ( = rubricapillus) may serve as average characters to 

 distinguish the majority of specimens. 



