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Southern Mexico, in State of Chiapas (San Cristobal) ; highlands of 

 Guatemala (San Geronimo; Cajabon; pine ridge of Poctdm; Gualan); 

 British Honduras; northern Nicaragua (Matagalpa; San Rafael del 



Norte). 



Xiphocolaptes emigrans Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, April, 1859, 118, 127 (San 

 Geronimo, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); Exotic Orn., 

 pt. V, 1867, 69, pi. 35.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 163 (Guatemala); 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 145 (Brit. Honduras; Cajabon, San Geronimo, 

 and pine ridge of Poctum, Guatemala). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xii, 1890, 7 (monogr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii. 

 1891, 183, part (Guatemalan localities; Brit. Honduras). 



X[iphocolaptes] emigrans Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 36 (Guate- 

 mala). — (?) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, Nicaragua). 



[Xiphocolaptes] emigrans Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 68, part 

 (Guatemala). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 81. 



[Dendrocolaptes] emigrans Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 176, no. 2389. 



XIPHOCOLAPTES EMIGRANS SCLATERI (Ridgway). 



SCLATER'S WOODHEWER. 



Similar to X. e. emigrans but slightly larger; color of pileum darker 

 (more blackish) wdth streaks slightly less bufl'y (more whitish) ; 

 throat more extensively Avhitish; chest, etc., rather more distinctly 

 streaked. 



Adult male? — Length (skin), 325; wing, 140; tail, 123; culmen, 53; 

 tarsus, 33; middle toe, 28.5.'* 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 326; wing, 138; tail, 123; culmen, 

 55; tarsus, 33.5; middle toe, 28.^* 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Jalapa) and 

 Oaxaca (Tonaguia; La Parada; Reyes). 



Xiphocolaptes albicollis? (not Dendrocopus alhimUis Vieillot) Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lend., 1857, 202 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



Xiphocolaptes emigrans Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 118, part (Jalapa). — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. v, 1867, 69, part (Jalapa). — Sumi- 

 chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 554 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; habits; 

 food); La Naturaleza, v, 248 (1881). — Sanchez, Anal. Mus. Nac. Mexico, 

 i, 1877, 97 (Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1891, 183, part (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; La Parada and Tonaguia, Oaxaca). 



Xiphocolaptes sclateri Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, no. 761, Feb. 5, 1890, 

 6 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XV, 1890, 143 (La Parada, Oaxaca). 



[Xiphocolaptes] sclateri Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 81. 



o One specimen, from Orizaba, Vera Cruz. 

 b One specimen, from Reyes, Oaxaca. 



