BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 81 



State of Chiapas (San Vicente; Chiapa; San Bartolom6; Juncan^; 

 Tuxtla Gutierrez; Petapa; Comitdn; Canj6b), southern Mexico. 



Melaner pes frontalis Nelson, Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 257 (San Vicente, Chiapas; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mu8.). 



CENTDRUS AURIFRONS (Wagler). 



GOLDEN-FRONTED WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Postnasal region and anterior portion of forehead 

 cadmium yellow, the former paler anteriorly; posterior portion of 

 forehead and anterior portion of superciliary region dull buffy grayish 

 white, passing into gray (nearly mouse gray) on supraauricular region 

 and occiput, this enclosing a crown-patch of bright poppy red ; hind- 

 neck bright cadmium orange (sometimes tinged with orange-red) 

 anteriorly, passing into yellow or yellowish orange posteriorly ; back, 

 scapulars, and upper rump regularly and sharply barred with black 

 and white (the black bars averaging about 2.5-3 mm. in width, the 

 white bars slightly narrower), the wing-coverts and secondaries simi- 

 larly barred, but the white bars relatively narrower; primary coverts 

 and primaries black, the latter with a white sub-basal patch and, 

 except outermost quills, tipped with white; lower rump and upper 

 tail-coverts immaculate white; tail black, the lateral rectrices tipped 

 with white, the outermost pair with several white spots or indenta- 

 tions along edge of distal portion of outer web, sometimes with one or 

 more similar spots or bars on subterminal portion of inner web; 

 auricular region, sides of neck, chest, breast, and sides plain pale buffy 

 grayish or very pale buffy drab-gray, fading into paler (sometimes 

 dull wliitish) on chin, anterior portion of malar region, and on loral 

 region, and passing into light yellow (pale cadmium or maize yellow) 

 on abdomen; flanks and under tail-coverts white, spotted or barred 

 with black, the markings usually of more or less V-shaped form; bill 

 dull black or slate-black, usually paler on basal portion of gonys; 

 legs and feet dusky grayish or olive (olive-greenish in life ?) ; length 

 (skins), 210-255 (234); wing, 129-143.5 (136.2); tail, 73-85 (79.8); 

 culmen, 30-35 (33); tarsus, 22-25 (23.5); outer anterior toe, 17-20.5 

 (19.1).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any red on 

 head, the occiput and whole crown gray, the color fading from rather 

 deep gray (nearly mouse gray or between mouse gray and gray no. 6) 

 on occiput to pale buffy grayish or dull wliitish on forehead, the yel- 

 low of hindneck rather paler than in male and, usually at least, with- 

 out orange tinge, and yellow of abdomen paler, as well as more 

 restricted; length (skins), 215-241 (225); wing, 127-134.5 (131.9); 



a Forty specimens. 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 G 



