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with paler, and red malar stripes less bright, less uniform, and black 

 terminal area on under side of tail not sharply defined. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but malar region dull 

 grayish brown or brownish gray instead of red. 



Central and southern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Ciudad 

 Victoria, in southern part), Vera Cruz (Las Vigas; Orizaba; Mirador; 

 Jalapa; Suapam; Monte Alto; Cofre de Perote), Puebla (base of 

 Orizaba; San Martin Texmelucan; Huejotzingo; Totimehuacan ; San 

 Miguel Molino) , Mexico (Volcan de Popocatepetl ; Volcan de Ixtacci- 

 huatl; Ixtapalapa; Tetelco; Xochimilco; Chimalapa; Tacubaya; 

 Huipulco, Tlalpam; Temiscal tepee ; near City of Mexico), Hidalgo 

 (Redl del Monte), Morelos (Huitzilac; Tetela del Volcan), San Luis 

 Potosi (Sierra de San Luis Potosi), Aguas Calientes (Sierra de Xeres; 

 Sierra de Calvillo) , Jalisco (Volcan de Nieve ; Volcan de Colima ; Los 

 Masos; Tonila; La Pisagua; Sierra de Bolanos; Sierra Madre de 

 Nayarit; Zapotldn), Michoacan (Patzcuaro), Tepic (Sierra de Nayarit; 

 Sierra Madre), Guerrero (Omilteme; Sierra Madre del Sur), and 

 Oaxaca (mountains near Ozocotopec; La Parada; Totontepec; 

 Tonaguia; Villa Alta). 



[Picus] cafer Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 431 (Cape of Good Hope; error). — 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 242. 



Picus cafer Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 102. 



C[olaptes] cafer Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hiet., iv, 1885, 428, in text, part. — 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 296, part. 



Colaptes cafer American Ornithologisls' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 413, 

 part. — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 214 (base of Volcan de 

 Orizaba, Puebla; Volcan de Ixtaccihuatl and V. de Popocatepetl, 11,000- 

 12,000 ft.).— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 134, part.— Chap- 

 man, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 43 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft., 

 breeding). 



Colaptes cafer cafer American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 

 1910, 195. 



P[icus] lathami Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Picus, sp. 85 (new name for Picus 

 cafer Gmelin). 



Colaptes mexicanus Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 440 (Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo, Mexico; coll. Bullock); Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, pp. xxvi, 315; 

 Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 3.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 307 (Sua- 

 pam, Vera Cruz); 1858, 305 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz); 1864, 177 (near City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 344, part 

 (Mexico). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 120, part (in synony- 

 my). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 121, part (Mexico). — 

 SuMicHRAST, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 562 (alpine reg. Vera Cruz). — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 578, part 

 (Oaxaca; Vera Cruz). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 160 (San Martin Texmelucan, and Totimehuacan, Puebla). — Hargitt, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 17, part (localities in Zacatecas?, San 

 Luis Potosi, Jalisco, Tepic, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Vera Cruz), 668 (Sierra 

 Bolanos, Jalisco). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 

 402, part (Sierra Bolanos, Volcan de Colima, and Zapotlan, Jalisco; Sierra 



