BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female.— Length (skins), 203-231 (213); wing, 118-134.5 

 (124.7); tail, 65-83.5 (72); culmen, 25-28.5 (26.5); tarsus, 19.5-23.5 

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



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Coatzocoalcos; Pasa 

 Nueva; Tlalcotalpam; Play a Vicente; Sochiapa; San Juan; Orizaba), 

 Oaxaca (Rio Givicia; Guichicovi; Tuxtepec), Tabasco (Frontera; 

 Atasta; Montecristo; San Juan Bautista), and Chiapas (Tila), and 

 adjacent parts of Guatemala. 



Pirns albifrons (not of Swainson) Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 52, part 

 (Vera Cruz). 



Melanerpes dubius verascruds Nelson, Auk, xvii, no. 3, July, 1900, 259 (Coatzo- 

 coalcos, Vera Cruz; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Melanerpes santacruzi (not Centurus santacruzi Bonaparte) Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 420, part (Playa Vicente and Sochiapa, 

 Vera Cruz; crit. on p. 421). 



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



CENTURUS DUBIUS LEEI (Ridgway). 



LEE'S WOODPECKEIl. 



Similar to C, d. dubius, but under parts much darker (yellowish 

 broccoli brown in unfaded specimens), rump and upper tail-coverts 

 usually more or less (often heavily) barred with black, the adult 

 male with whitish frontal band much narrower, sometimes obsolete; 

 bill and feet averaging larger. 



As might be expected, specimens from Tabasco, Chiapas, and Guatemala are not 

 typical. They are intermediate in coloration between the birds from Vera Cruz 

 and Oaxaca and those from Yucatan and Campeche, some of them nearer the latter; 

 but they are even smaller than Vera Cruz and Oaxaca specimens, and therefore can 

 not properly be referred to C. d. dubius. 



