BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 261 



248 (alp. rop;. Orizaba, Vera Gruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 185 (Nuri, Sonora; Ciudad, Durango; Sierra de Sau 

 Luis Potosf; Sierra de Bolaiioa and Sierra de Nayaril, Jalisco; Sierra Nevada 

 de Colima; Tenango del Valle, Rio Frio, Ixtaccihuatl, and San Salvador 

 el Verde, Puebla; Temiscaltepec; La Parada, Oaxaca; Omiltenie and 

 Amula, Guerrero). 



[I'icolaptcs] leucogastcr Gray, Iland-list, i, 1869, 179, no. 2441. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neot.r., 1873, 68.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 83. 



T[hripobrotus] leurngostcr Caranir and Heine, Mna. Hein., ii, 1859, 37, foot- 

 note. 



[Thripobrotiis] leucogastcr Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Miis. Hein. Orn., 1890, 

 137. 



I'icolaptcs alripes Eyton, Jardine'a Contr. Orn., 1851, 76 ("South America"). 



[Picolaptes] atripes Gray, Hand-list, i, 18G9, 179, no. 2446. 



PICOLAPTES AFFINIS AFFINIS (Lafresnaye). 



ALLIED WOODHEWER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileuni and liindiieck ])rown (li,2;lit sepia or 

 dark raw-umber), each feather margined terminahy with bhxck or 

 dusky and with a central guttate or diamond-shaped spot of (kdi 

 huffy; back, scapuhirs, and wing-coverts phiin raw-umber brown, 

 the upper back sometimes with a few narrow streaks of pale buffy; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts plain cinnamon-rufous; tail and remiges 

 chestnut or rufous-chestnut, the })rimaries and distal secondaries 

 edged, more or less distinctly, with brown, the exposed (terminal) 

 portion of inner webs of longer primaries dusky grayish l)rown; sides 

 of head and neck buff, streaked (the feathers edged or marginetl) with 

 dusky; chin and throat immaculate buff", the extreme lower throat 

 and upper chest also buff, but the feathers margined with black; rest 

 of under parts light raw-umber brown, each feather with a broad 

 central elliptical or obtusely cuneate streak of buff, margined with 

 black, these markings becoming gradually less distinct posteriorly, 

 the black marginal lines nearly obsolete on Hanks and under tail- 

 coverts, the general color of the latter more fulvescent or cinnamo- 

 meous; under wing-coverts ochraceous-buff (passing into buff on 

 margin of wing) slightly flecked with dusky; inner webs of remiges 

 light cinnamon-rufous, with terminal portion (extensively) dusky 

 brownish gray; bill pale grayish or yellowish horn color, usually 

 somewhat darker or more brownish basally; iris brown; legs and feet 

 dusky horn color (in dried skins). 



