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Christi). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 235 (San Antonio, resident). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 418 (Julinee, Chihuahua; 

 Ceralva, Hacienda de laa Escobas, San Augustin, etc., Nuevo Leon; Aguas 

 Calientes and Calvillo, Aguas Calientes; Silao, Guanajuato; etc.). — Bendire, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 124.— Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Mata- 

 moras, San Fernando, Alta Mira, and Rio de la Cruz, Tamaulipas). 



3f[elanerpes] aurifrons Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 294. 



[Melanerpes] aurifrons Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 211. 



Centurus Jlaviventris (not Picus flaviventris Vieillot)^ Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 

 1837, 354 (no locality given). — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves's Expl. 

 Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 91 (San Antonio, Texas). — Baird, in Rep. Stans- 

 bury's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 333 (Texas); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 110; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 42, figs. 1, 2; Rep. U. S. 

 and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 5, pi. 4 (Eagle Pass and Ringgold 

 Barracks, Texas; Matamoras, Tamaulipas); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 92. — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, no. 1, 1859, 18 (San Antonio). — 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 469 (n. e. to Guadalupe R., Texas). 



C[enturus] Jlaviventris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 8, in text (Texas). 



C[entiiribs] subelegans (not of Bonaparte, 1837) Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 442. 



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

 Zygod., 1854, 11), part (excl. syn.); Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854, 85. 



Picus subelegans Lesson, Compl. (Euv. Buffon (L^veque), xx, 1847, 206. 



Picus ornatus Lesson, Rev. Zool., March, 1839, 102 (Mexico; coll. AbeilM.) 



C[enturus] ornatus Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinae, 1854, 410, pi. 664, 

 figs. 4409, 4410. 



Centurus elegans (not Picus elegans Swainson) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 

 1852, 116 (Texas).— Baird, in Rep. Stansbury's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 

 333 (Rio Grande, Texas). 



Centurus santa-cruzi (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 1852, 

 123 (w. Texas). 



Centurus santacruzii Baird, in Rep. Stansbury's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 

 333 (w. Texas). 



Plicml santa cruzi Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 53, part (Texas). 



CENTURUS SANTACRUZI SANTACRUZI Bonaparte. 



VELASQUEZ'S WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Postnasal region cadmium yellow to cadmium 

 orange, usually paler anteriorly; forehead and anterior portion of 

 superciliary region dull wliite or buffy grayish wliite, passing into 

 yellowish mouse gray or drab-gray on supra-auricular region ; crown, 

 occiput, and nape bright poppy red, passing into a more orange-red 

 hue on hindneck, the posterior margin usually tinged or intermixed 

 with orange-j^ellow ; back, scapulars, and upper rump narrowly and 

 very sharply barred with black and wliite, the white bars much 

 narrower than the black interspaces, and averaging about 1-1.5 mm. 

 in width; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white, usually immacu- 

 late but sometimes with shaft-streaks or irregular markings of 

 black; wings black, the coverts and secondaries with narrow and 



<^ =Sphyrapicus ruber. 



