18 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Colaptes] auratus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 113, part. — Gray, Hand-list, 



ii, 1870, 202, no. 8822, part.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 197, part.— 



Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201. 

 Clolaptesl auratus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 493, part. — Ridgway, 



Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 378, part (Illinois); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 



295, part. 

 [Colaptes auratus] var. auratus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 575, part. 

 Colaptes auratus auratus Oberholser, Notes on Mam. and Sum. Birds W. N. Car., 



1905, 14 (s. portion up to 4,000 ft.). — American Ornithologists' Union, 



Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 194. 

 Geopicos auratus Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 359, part. 

 Geopicus auratus Malherbe, Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 255, part; iv, pi. 109, figs. 



5, 6, 7. 

 ('i)Colaptes auratus luteus (not-of Bangs?) Ferry, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 284 (Cairo, 



niinois, Feb.), 433 (Cairo, Aug.).— Woodruff, Auk, xxv, 1908, 200 (Shan- 

 non Co., Missouri, March). 



COLAPTES AURATUS LUTEUS Bangs. 



NORTHERN FLICKER. 



Similar in coloration to C. a. auratus,"' but larger. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 250-293 (265); wing, 154-165 (156.3); 

 tail, 96.5-112 (105.9); culmen, 31-40 (34.6); tarsus, 26.5-31 (28.1); 

 outer anterior toe, 20-23 (21.4).* 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 248-292 (259); wing, 149.5-159.5 

 (155); tail, 97-115 (103.9); culmen, 31-38.5 (33.8); tarsus, 26.5-29.5 

 (27.8); outer anterior toe, 20-23.5 (21.7). '^ 



Northern and central United States, east of Rocky Mountains, 

 except North Dakota, Minnesota, etc.; south to Virginia, western 

 North Carolina, northern South Carolina (at least in winter), north- 

 ern Alabama, eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, southern Indiana and 

 Illinois (except extreme southern portions), Missouri (except south- 

 eastern part), Kansas, etc.; in winter to Gulf coast and southern 

 Texas. 



Picus auratus (not Cuculus auratus Linnaeus) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 

 66, part, pi. 123; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 100.— Lesson, Trait6 

 d'Orn., 1831, 228, part.— Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1810, 45, part, pi. 3, fig. 1.— 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 44, part.— Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1832, 191, part, pi. 37; v, 1839, 540, part; Synopsis, 1839, 184, part; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 282, part, pi. 273.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 561, part.— Sundevall, Consp. Pic, 1866, 

 71, part. 



P[iciis] auratus Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 368, part; 

 Obs. Wils. Am. Om., 1826, [29], part. 



a After very careful comparison of a large series of specimens I am not able to verify 

 a single one of the alleged color-differences mentioned by Mr. Bangs; indeed, even 

 specimens from northwestern Alaska (C. a. horealis) are quite as dark as Florida ex- 

 amples, and, so far as I can see, in every respect identical in coloration with them. 



b Thirty-three specimens. 



c Thirty specimens. 



