BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. Ill 



and La Palma de San Jose, Costa Rica). — Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xviii, 1890, 149, part (Dota, San Jos6, and Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica; 



Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, ii, 1895, 412, part (Rio Segovia, Honduras; Matagalpa and San Rafael 



del Norte, Nicaragua; Grecia, Potrero, Cervantes, etc., Costa Rica; David 



and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. Panama). — (?) Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. 



for 1896-97 (1899), 220. part (Chaloma, Honduras). 

 [Melanerpes] formicivorus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100, 



part. — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 209, part. 

 M[elanerpes] formicivorus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 291, part (Costa 



Rica). 

 Melanerpes formicivorus, var. formicivorus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 566, part (Costa Rica; Honduras?). 

 [Melanerpes formicivorus] var. striatipectus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, Jan., 1874, 561 (locality not given, but 



type from Birris, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

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



Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 561, footnote (crit.). 

 Melanerpes form^icivorus striatipectus Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 



Jan. 30, 1902, 33 (Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama, 4,000-4,500 ft.).— Carri- 



ker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 585 (Costa Rica; habits). 

 Melanerpes striatipectus Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 23. 

 Balanosphyra formicivora striatipectus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, 



Feb. 24, 1911, 35. 

 [Melanerpes] melanopogon (not Picus melanopogon Temminck) Heine and 



Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 223, part (Costa Rica). 



BALANOSPHYRA XANTHOLARYNX (Reichenbach). 



YELLOW-THROATED WOODPECKER. 



Similar to B. formicivora but differing in entire absence of black 

 on sides of head (except a malar stripe), the whole of the auricular 

 and orbital regions, together with sides of neck being white, the 

 last, however, with a few small black spots; in entire absence of 

 black on throat and chin, which are wholly yellow, and in having 

 the chest white, sparsely streaked with black, the median, as well as 

 lateral, under parts apparently also streaked with black.*^ 



Mexico? (Locality of type specimen, still unique, unknown.) 



« The original description is as follows: "Stirnfahlweisslich, von da bis zum Genick 

 hochroth, Streif vom Mundwinkel dag Auge einschliessend seitlich am Halse zur 

 Brust herabsteigend weiss! Ziigel schwarz! Kehle einfarbig ochergelb, Mantel, Fliigel 

 und Schwanz schwarz, Riicken und Schultern griinlich schillemd, grosser Mittel- 

 fieck auf den Vorderschwingen und Biirzel reinweiss, Unterseite diisterweiss, 

 schwarzbraun schaftstreifig, Innenriinder der Hinterschwingen weiss. — Ich messe 

 9'' e''', Schnabelfirste IV, -spalte V 1'" , -hohe Af" , Mundbreite 1\''' , Fittig W' 6''' 

 Schwanz 3^^ 5^^^, Lauf IV^^, aussere Vorderzehe 8^^^, Nagel 4Y^^, innere Vorderzehe 

 6'^^, Nagel 4^^^, aussere Hinterzehe 8V''\ Nagel 4'^^, innere Hinterzehe 4^^^, Nagel 

 21^^''. — Durch die in der Diagnose cursiv gedruckten Kennzeichen sehr ausgezeich- 

 nete Art und die einzige der Gattung mit Ziigeln. — Ich erhielt das Exemplar von 

 einem Naturalienhiindler ohne bestimmte Angabe des Vaterlandes und mochte die 

 Art zu weiterer Beobachtung empfehlen. — Mexico? " 



