BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. $9 



{'i)C€nturus santa-cruzi pauper Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 93, 



part (Belize, Brit. Honduras; crit.). 

 Centurus santacruzi paupera Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 



220 (Chaloma, Honduras). 

 Melanerpes santacruzi pauper Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. xxxix, 1903, 146 

 (Ceiba, Honduras). 



CENTURUS CHRYSOGENYS CHRYSOGENYS (Vigors). 



GOLDEN-CHEEKED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Forehead (narrowly) pale buffy brown or pale wood 

 brown; crown and occiput bright red (between poppy red and 

 carmine) ; hindneck bright chrome or cadmium, passing into a more 

 orange-red hue on nape, the latter into orange or orange-yellow on 

 lower portion or along posterior edge; a large superciliary patch of 

 black, this sometimes entirely encircling the bare orbital space, but 

 much broader above and behind; prefrontal region rather dull cad- 

 mium yellow or orange, or sometimes nearly concolor with forehead ; 

 back, scapulars, and upper rump barred with black and white, the 

 two colors about equal in width; lower rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white, barred with black; wing black, the coverts more narrowly, 

 the secondaries more broadly barred with white, the primaries ex- 

 tensively blotched with white sub-basally and tipped or terminally 

 margined with the same; tail black, the middle pair of rec trices 

 broadly barred with white, the outer pair more narrowly barred, 

 the terminal half (more or less) of the next similarly barred, the 

 other rectrices with inner webs usually barred or spotted along the 

 edge with white; malar and auricular regions (sometimes chin also) 

 cadmium or chrome yellow (more or less deep); throat, foreneck, 

 sides of neck, chest, breast, and sides plain deep drab-gray or hair 

 brown; abdomen (superficially) saffron yellow (more or less deep); 

 flanks and under tail-coverts dull white barred with black, the bars 

 more or less V-shaped; under wing-coverts wliite, rather narrowly 

 barred with black; inner webs of primaries extensively blotched 

 with white sub-basally, the inner webs of secondaries broadly barred 

 or transversely spotted with white; bill dull black, more browTiish 

 on lower basal portion of mandible; legs and feet grayish dusky 

 (greenish gray or olive in life?); length (skins), 204-223 (210); wing, 

 118-124.5 (121.3); tail, 71.5-77 (74.1); culmen, 25-28 (26.6); tarsus, 

 20.5-23 (21.6); outer anterior toe, 17.5-19.5 (18.9).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but crown and occiput 

 brownish gray (more brownish or buffy anteriorly), the occiput some- 

 times intermixed with black, rarely nearly uniform black, the nape 

 varying from orange to orange-red ; length (skins), 194-21 1 (202) ; wing 



a Ten specimens (seven from Sinaloa, three from Tepic). 



