88 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Melanerpes santacruzi Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 420, 

 part (Tampico, s. Tamaulipas; Las Vigas, Jalapa, Coatepec, Misantla, Cuesta 

 de Misantla, Vega del Casadero, Atoyac, Cordova, Jomotla, Santana, Plan 

 del Rio, Huatusco, Cuichapa?, Zentla,^Rio Rancho Nuevo, Hacienda Tor- 

 tugas. Vera Cruz, Orizaba, Sochiapa, and Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz). 



C[enturus\ erythrophthalmus Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 409, 

 pi. 664, figs. 4407, 4408 (Santuario and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; coll. Berlin Mus.; 

 ex. Lichtenstcdn, manuscript). 



Centurus fiaviventris (not of Swainson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 

 252 (Vera Cruz). 



Centurus albifrons (not of Swainson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 364 

 (near City of Mexico; crit.). 



P[icus] santa cruzi Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 53, part (s. Mexico). 



[Melanerpes] santacruzi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211, part (s. Mexico). 



Centurus aurifrons (not Picas aurifrons Wagler) Sumichrast, La Naturaleza, v, 

 1882, 240 (Orizaba, etc., Vera Cruz). 



CENTURUS SANTACRUZI PAUPER Ridgway. 



TRITXILLO WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. s. santacruzi, but smaller, and with white bars on 

 back, etc., usually still narrower. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 195-218 (209); wing, 117.5-131 

 (123.7); tail, 63-77 (69.2); culmen, 25-30 (27.4); tarsus, 20-23.5 

 (21.2); outer anterior toe, 17-20 (18.7).« 



Adult female.— Length (sldns), 195-218 (207); wing, 115.5-123 

 (119.5); tail, 62-71.5 (66.9); culmen, 24-27 (25.8); tarsus, 20-22 

 (20.9); outer anterior toe, 17-19 (18.1).« 



Caribbean slope of Honduras (Truxillo; San Pedro; San Pedro 

 Sula; Ceiba; Omoa; Chaloma; Comayagua). British Honduras 

 (Belize) ? 



Centurus santacruzi (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 

 359 (Comayagua, Honduras). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 136, part 

 (Comayagua); 1870, 837 (Julian and San Pedro, Honduras). — Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 60 (Omoa, Honduras).— Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 119 

 (Honduras; habits). 



[Centurus aurifrons] ^.santacruzi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 97, 

 part (Honduras). 



Centurus aurifrons santa-cruzi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 106, 

 part (Honduras; monogr.). 



M[elanerpes] santa-cruzi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part (Hon- 

 duras). 



[Melanerpes aurifrons.] Subsp. a. Melanerpes santacruzi Hargitt, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 179, part (Julian and San Pedro, Honduras). 



Melanerpes santacruzi Salvkst and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 

 420, part (Julian, San Pedro, Truxillo, Omoa, and Comayagua, Honduras). 



[Melanerpes] santacruzi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211, part (Honduras). 



Centurus santacruzi pauper Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, sig. 37, Aug. 6, 

 1888, 582 (Truxillo, Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



<^ Ten specimens. 



