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rower than the black ones; breast, etc., deep smoky- 

 gray, or olive-gray ; adxdt male with red crown-patch 

 usually confluent with orange or orange-red of nape ; 

 middle tail-feathers usually varied with white. Hab. 

 Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico, 

 north to Jalapa and Mirador. 



M. santa-cruzi (Bonap.). Santa Cruz's Woodpecker.^ 

 • /^ Bars on back, etc., broader, the white ones equal to black 

 ones in width ; breast, etc., pale brownish gray or dull 

 gi*ayish white ; adult male with red crown-patch usu- 

 ally entirely surrounded by ash-gray — rarely confluent 

 with the orange, orange-red, or yellow of nape ; middle 

 tail-feather always (?) entirely black. 



Adult male : Crown with a bright red patch, usually 

 surrounded by pale grayish (paler, sometimes 

 nearly white, across forehead), but sometimes con- 

 fluent posteriorly, along the median line, with the 

 orange of the hind-neck ; frontlet bright yellow. 

 Adult female : Similar to the male, but crown en- 

 tirely light gra3'ish (paler anteriorly), the yellow 

 of frontlet and belly and orange or j^ellow of hind- 

 neck paler. Young : Much duller in colors than 

 adult, the markings much less sharply defined, 

 and the bright colors of head but faintly indi- 

 cated ; breast indistinctly streaked with dusky. 

 Wing 5.20-5.65, tail 3.40-3.75, culmen 1.20-1.40. 

 Eggs .99 X -75. JTab. Northeastern Mexico and 



southern Texas 410. M. aurifrons (Wagl.). 



Golden-fronted Woodpecker. 

 Hind-neck soft light grayish brown, or smoky drab. 



Eump and upper tail-coverts regu'larly barred with black. 

 Adult male : Head, neck, and most of lower parts uni- 

 form soft smoky drab or light grayish brown, the 

 middle of the crown with a crimson patch. Adult 

 female : Similar to the male, but no red on crown. 

 Young : Not essentially different from adult, but 

 markings less sharply defined, and colors duller. 

 Wing 5.00-5.30, tail 3.50-3.90, culmen .95-1.25. Eggs 

 .98 X -70. Mab. Southern Arizona, southeastern Cali- 

 fornia, Lower California, and western Mexico, south 

 to Mazatlan. 



411. M. uropygialis (Baird). Gila Woodpecker. 



1 Centurus santa-cruzi BoNAP., P. Z. S. 1837, 116. 



