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Geopicus ayresii Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 260. 



Colaptes hybridus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 122 (valleys of upper 

 Missouri and Yellowstone rivers); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 98a. — 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 3 (Topeka and Lawrence, Kansas).— Baibd, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 582, pi. 54, fig. 3.— 

 RiDGWAY, Field and Forest, 1877, 209 (Colorado); Om. 40tli Parallel, 1877, 

 556 (Washoe Valley, Nevada, 1 spec, Jan.); Om. Illinois, i, 1889, 387.— 

 Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 130 (Camp Harney, Oregon, 



1 spec.)- 



Colaptes "hybridus" Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 

 618 (upper Missouri, Milk R., and Yellowstone R.). 



Colaptes auratus, var. hybridus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 38 

 (Nevada). 



Colaptes auratus, y. hybridus Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, iii, Apr., 1878, 

 68 (Calaveras Co., California; crit.).— Belding and Ridgway, Proc. TJ. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 430 (Marysville, California, Jan., Feb.; crit.). 



Colaptes auratus hybridus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 190; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 378a.— Brown (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, vii, 1882, 40 (Boeme, Kendall Co., w. Texas). 



Picus hybridus aurato-mexicanus Sundevall, Consp. Picinarium, 1866, 72. 



Colaptes auratu^+mexicanus Coues, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vi, July, 1881, 183, 

 in text (Ft. Whipple, Arizona, 1 spec, Feb. 20). 



Colaptes auratus+C. mexicanus Berier, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vi, Oct., 1881, 

 247 (Orange Co. and Ft. Hamilton, New York; Mt. Carmel, Illinois). 



Colaptes auratus i-cafer Burns, Wilson Bull., no. 18, 1898, 4 (Chester Co., Penn- 

 sylvania, 1 spec, Oct. 3, 1898). 



{'i)Colaptes auratus? Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 557 (West Humboldt 

 Mts., Nevada, 1 spec, Oct.). 



Colaptes auratus (not Cuculus auratus Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 iii, 1872, 139 (Ft. Hays, w. Kansas).— Berier, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, v, 

 1880, 47 (Ft. Hamilton, New York, 1 spec, Oct. 4, 1879). 



{'i)Colaptes chrysoides Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, 1875, 19, 38 (West Hum- 

 boldt Mts., Nevada). — Beyer, Allison, and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 448 

 (Deer Range Plantation, Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana, 1 spec, Dec, 1863). 



COLAPTES CHRYSOCAULOSUS CHRYSOCAULOSUS Gundlach. 



CUBAN FLICKER. 



Similar to C. auratus, but rump thickly spotted with black, gray of 

 pileum lighter and clearer, and under parts more heavily spotted. 



Adult male. — Pileum, together with lower and lateral portions of 

 hindneck, uniform clear gray (about no. 6), interrupted by a large 

 crescentic nuchal patch of bright poppy red; back, scapulars, wing- 

 coverts, and secondaries grayish brown (olivaceous broccoli brown 

 to nearly isabella color) sharply barred with black, the bars broader 

 (but still narrower than the grayish brown interspaces) on secondaries; 

 primary coverts and primaries black, the former narrowly edged ter- 

 minally with dull whitish or pale yellowish, the inner (proximal) 

 primaries more or less spotted or barred on middle portion of outer 

 web with the same or pale grayish brown; shafts of remiges bright 

 chrome or deep-chrome yellow; rump and upper tail-coverts white, 

 the former thickly marked with mostly cordate spots of black, the 



