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Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but barring of back, 

 etc., less sharply defined, and that of flanks and under tail-coverts 

 much less distinct, post-nasal region dull bufTy wliitish (instead of 

 cadmium yellow or orange), red of pileum and nape less bright, less 

 uniform, and yellow of abdomen much less distinct. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but crown and occiput 

 pale buffy grayish, the former more or less mottled or barred with 

 dusky. 



State of Chiapas (Huehuetan), southeastern Mexico, through Guate- 

 mala (Rio Managua; Coban to Chisec; Palm; Goyab^j, Quitche; 

 El Rancho, Zacapa; Patultil, Solola; Salamd; Gualan; El Rancho, 

 Lake Amatitlan; Lake Atitlan; Los Amates, Yzabal; Iguana; 

 Duenas; San Jose; SanGeronimo; Naranjo; Retalhuleu; Santa Maria 

 de Quezaltenango ; Escuintla; El Baoul; Tollman; Panajachal), and 

 Salvador (San Salvador; El Libertad; Volcan de San Mguel) to 

 northern Nicaragua (Jalapa). 



Centurus santa amzi Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 116 (Guatemala; 



coll. Velasquez); Nuov. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, ii, 1839, 343. 

 Centurus santa-cruzi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 119 ("Mexico"). — Dear- 

 born, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 93 (El Rancho, on Lake Amatitlan, 



and Patulul, Solola, Guatemala; crit.). 

 [Centurus] santacruzi Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 11) (excl. syn. dubius Cabot). 

 Centurus santacruzi Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 136, part (Duenas and 



Salamd, Guatemala; Yucatan?).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 343, part 



(Salama, Guatemala). 

 Centurus santaa-uzii Owen, Ibis, 1861, 61 (San Geronimo, Guatemala; descr. 



eggs). 

 Centurus santcruzi Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (Palin 



and Naranjo, Guatemala). 

 Centurus aurifrons santa-cruzi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, July 18, 



1881, 106, part (Guatemala; monogr.). 

 [Centurus aurifrons] ^. santacruzi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, July 18, 



1881, 97, part (Guatemala; diagnosis). 

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

 Mlelanerpes] santa-cruzi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294, part (Guate- 

 mala). 

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



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 179, part (Duenas, Retalhuleu, and Raoul, 



Guatemala). 

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



part (Santa Maria de Quezaltenango, Salama, San Geronimo, Retalhuleu, 



Escuintla, El Baoul, Duenas, Tolunan, and Panajachel, Guatemala; Volcan 



San Miguel and La Libertad, Salvador.) 

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

 Centurus santa-cruzi pauper (not of Ridgway) Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. 



N. H., 1907, 93 (Los Amates, Yzabal, Guatemala; crit.). 

 Melanerpes santacruzi fumosus Nelson, Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 258 (Huehuetan, 



Chiapas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Centurus santa-cruzi fumosus Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., Nov., 1907, 



94 (San Jose, Guatemala; crit.). 



