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C[olaptes] cafer saturatior Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 296. 

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



Colaptes cafer (not Picus cafer Gmelin) Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 44 

 (Grays Harbor, Washington). 



COLAPTES CAFER RUFIPILEUS (Ridgway). 



GUADALUPE FLICKER. 



Similar in coloration to C. c. saturatior, but pileum much more 

 nifescent (the forehead and superciliary region and upper portion 

 of loral region deep cinnamon-rufous), black termmal band on under 

 surface of tail broader, and smaller, with relatively longer bill. 



Adult male.— LQTigth (skins), 284-301 (290); wing, 149-152 (150); 

 tail, 104-113 (110); culmen, 37-41.5 (38.9); tarsus, 26.5-28 (27.3); 

 outer anterior toe, 21-23 (22.2). « 



Adult female.— Length (skms), 283-314 (296); wing, 148.5-158 

 (152.5); tail, 102.5-114 (110.4); culmen, 37-43 (39); tarsus, 26.5-29 

 (28); outer anterior toe, 20.5-23 (21.7).^ 

 Guadalupe Island, off Pacific coast of Lower California. 

 Colaptes mexicanus rufipileus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Siu-v. Terr., 

 ii, no. 2, April 1, 1876, 191 (Guadalupe Island, Lower California; col. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.). 

 Colaptes rufipileus Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, July, 1877, 60, 61; Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, 219, 229; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 380.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 

 1895), no. 415, 3d ed., 1910, 195.— Bryant (W. E.), Bull. Calif. Ac. Sci., ii, 

 1887, 285 (habits; descr. eggs; crit.); Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, 1889, 

 287.— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 140.— Thayer and Bangs, 

 Condor, x, 1908, 104. 

 C[olaptes] rufipileus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 296. 

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



Colaptes mexicanus (not of Swainson) Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 

 1890, 17, part. 



COLAPTES MEXICANOIDES Lafresnaye. 



GUATEMALAN FLICKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck uniform deep cinnamon-rufous 

 or rufous-chestnut; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and secondaries 

 broadly barred with black and light brown (nearly wood brown to 

 slightly vinaceous cinnamon), the black and brown bars of nearly 

 equal width, except on wings, where the former are broader, the 

 pale brown bars on the secondaries (except proxunal ones, or "ter- 

 tials") interrupted by a broad median extension of the black; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts white, the former with a few cordate or 

 V-shaped spots of black, the latter broadly barred, or transversely 

 spotted, with black; primaries and rectrices black, with shafts (also 

 those of secondaries) bright orange or saturn red, except for terminal 

 portion of rectrices and shafts of middle pair of rectrices, which are 

 black; inner web of middle pair of rectrices and terminal portion of 



a Six specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



