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Barranca Honda; El Rincon, San Marcos; Ciupache; plains of Que- 

 zaltenango; ridge above Totonicap^m). Northern Nicaragua (Mata- 

 galpa).° 



P[icus] rubicatus Wagler, Isis, 1829, 516, part (female). 



C[olaptes] rubricatiis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 446. 



Colaptes rubricatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, pi. 111. 



Geopicus rubricatus Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 265, pi. 110, figs. 1, 2. 



Col[aptes] mexicanoides Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vii, Feb., 1844, 42 ("Mexico;" 

 coll. Lafresnaye). 



Colaptes mexicanoides Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 137 (Coban and Los Cho- 

 coyas, Guatemala; crit.). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 344 (Coban). — 

 Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 121. — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 

 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, Nicaragua); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves,ii, 1895, 404 (locali- 

 ties in Guatemala; Matagalpa). — Dearborn, Pub. 125, FieldMus. N. H., 1907, 

 94 (Lake Atitlan and near Tecpam, Guatemala, 5,000-9,500 ft.; descr. nest; 

 crit.). 



[Colaptes] mexicanoides Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8831.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101. 



C[olaptes\ mexicanoides Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 574.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 296.— Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 25, 37 (crit.). 



Geopicos mexicanoides Malherbe, Mem. Ac. Metz, xxx, 1849, 359. 



Colaptes collaris (not of Vigors) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 114. 



[Colaptes] collaris Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126. 



Picus submexicanus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 72 (new name for C. 

 mexicanoides; the latter rejected on grounds of purism). 



Colaptes submexicanus Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 21 (Barranca 

 Hondo, Tactic, Coban, and Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



[Colaptes] sub-mexicanus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201. 



Genus NESOCELEUS Sclater and Salvin. 



Nesoceleus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101, 155. (Type, by 

 original designation, Colaptes fernandinx Vigors.) 



Rather large Picidse (wing 144-157 mm.) similar to Colaptes, but 

 with nostrils wholly exposed (no trace of antrorse prefrontal plumes), 

 no black jugular patch, no white on rump, and with whole of body, 

 \vings, and tail barred with black and brownish yellow. 



Bill about as long as head, rather slender, very slightly decurved 

 terminally, its tip pointed (not at all chisel-shaped), its width at 

 posterior end of nostrils decidedly greater than its depth at same 

 point; ridge of culmen indistinct basally, distinct terminally; an 

 indistinct supranasal ridge, running parallel with culmen for about 

 basal half of maxilla; gonys about as long as mandibular rami, 

 straight or very faintly concave terminally, slightly prominent 

 basally, rather distinctly ridged; commissure nearly straight to near 

 base, where slightly deflected. Nostril wholly exposed, rather large, 

 roundish. Feathers of frontal antise small, short, and erect (not 



"^ I have not seen a specimen from Nicaragua, and doubt whether specimens from 

 that country are subspecifically identical with those from Guatemala. They should 

 be carefully compared. 



