BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 



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Melampicus melanopogon Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 33G; Rev. et 

 Mag. de Zool., i, 1849, 542. 



[Melanerpes] melanopogon Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 115 ("Brazil"); 

 Ateneo Italino, ii, 1854, 125 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 10). 



[Melanerpes formicivorus.] Subsp. a. Melanerpes melanopogon Hargitt, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 151, part (Sierra Jerez and Sierra de Valpa- 

 raiso, Zacatecas; Zapotlan, Jalisco; Sierra Madre, Tepic; Sierra San Luis 

 Potosi; Chimalpa, Mexico; Sola and Juchatengo, Oaxaca). 



Melanerpes melanopogon Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 569 (Sierra 

 de Bolailos, Jalisco). 



Picus melampogon Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 1; Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1863, 55 (reprint). 



[Picus] melampogon Lichtenstein, Nona. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 76. 



Melanerpes formicivorus, var. striatipectus, part, Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 561 (Orizaba and Mirador, Vera 

 Cruz). 



Melanerpes formicivorus . . . striatipectus Boucard, Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 

 1878, 78 (Guatemala). 



BALANOSPHYRA FORMICIVORA ACULEATA (Meams). 



MEARNS' WOODPECKER. 



Similar to B. f. formicivora, but averaging smaller, especially the 

 bill, and with the chest much more extensively uniform black. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 195-227 (210); wing, 135-146.5 

 (140.5); tail, 70-83 (76.8); culmen, 23.5-29.5 (26.1); tarsus, 20-22.5 

 (21.3); outer anterior toe, 15.5-18.5 (17).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 191-220 (207); wdng, 132.5-144 

 (138.9); tail, 67.5-82 (76); culmen, 22-26.5 (24.4); tarsus 19-22 

 (20.4); outer anterior toe, 15-18 (16. 1).'' 



Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas (Davis Mts.; Fort 

 Davis, in oak belt), southward over northwestern Mexico, in States 

 of Sonora (San Jose Mts.; LaChumata; Rio de Santa Cruz ; Oposura; 

 Nogales; Cerro Blanco; Cachute; El Pinita; Santa Rosa; Yecaera), 



a Thirty-two specimens. 



b Thirty-three specimens. 



