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Colaptes chrysoides (not Geopiciis chrysoides Malherbe) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 125 (Mexican boundary line); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 6; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 99, part.— Cooper, 

 Proc. Calii. Ac. Sci., 1861, 122 (Ft. Mojave, Arizona); Orn. Calif., 1870, 

 410, part (Ft. Mojave).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 56 (Ft. 

 Mojave); Check List, 1873, no. 313, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 458, part.— 

 Elliot, New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., i, 1869, pi. 26 and text, part. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 583, part, 

 pi. 54, fig. 1 (not fig. 2).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, 

 part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 379, part. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 73 (Tucson, Arizona); viii, 1883, 24 (Big Sandy R., 

 Tuc86n, and Camp Lowell, Arizona; descr. young; crit.). — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 344 (Guaymas, Sonora). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2ded., 1895) no. 414, part; 3ded., 1910, 

 195, part. — Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 429 (Tucson, San Pedro Valley, and Santa 

 Catalina Mts., Arizona). — Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 16, part 

 (Tucs6n, etc., Arizona; Ysleta and Hermosillo, Sonora). — Rhoads, Proc- 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1892, 116 (s. Arizona, in valleys). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 405, part (Guaymas, Hermosillo, La Cobriza, 

 Cedros, and Ysleta, Sonora).^BENDiRE, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 

 138, part.— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (Culiacdn, 

 Sinaloa). — Thayer and Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 18 

 (Opodepe, Sonora). 



[Colaptes] chrysoides Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 202, no. 8834, part. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 198, part.— Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201, part. 



C[okiptes] chrysoides Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 493, part. — Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 295, part. 



Colaptes chrysoides chrysoides Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 

 78, part. 



Piciis chrysoides Sundevall, Consp. A v. Picin., 1866, 72, part. 



Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 

 1911, 32 (Quitovaquita, Arizona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxix, 1912, 384, 



COLAPTES CAFER CAFER (Gmelin). 

 MEXICAN RED-SHAFTED FLICKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum grayish brown (nearly broccoli browTi to 

 sepia) passing anteriorly into cinnamon-brown or russet on forehead 

 (sometimes crown also cinnamomeous) , this into clearer cinnamon 

 or russet on loral and superciliary regions, the hindneck more grayish 

 brown or brownish gray; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and seconda- 

 ries brown or grayish brown (drab or brownish drab),*^ barred, more 

 or less broadly, with black, the black bars always much less than 

 half as wide as the brown interspaces, except on secondaries, where 

 much broader, those on the distal secondaries about as wide as the 

 brown ones, here reduced to deep marginal indentations ; rump white, 



''^ As a rule, the color is lighter and grayer in specimens taken in late spring and 

 summer, darker and browner in those which have recently molted. 



