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KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OP TRIPSURUS. 



a. Back barred with white; nape red. (Tripsurus pucherani.) 

 b. Back more narrowly barred; white spots or bars on wing-coverts smaller (some- 

 times obsolete); white transverse spots or bars on secondaries naiTower; 

 averaging larger. (Southern Honduras to western Ecuador.) 



Tripsurus pucherani pucherani (p. 119). 

 66. Back more broadly barred; white spots or bars on wing-coverts larger (never 

 obsolete); white transverse spots or bars on secondaries broader; averaging 

 smaller. (Vera Cruz to northern Honduras.) 



Tripsurus pucherani perileucus (p. 122). 



aa. Back with a median stripe of white (not barred); nape yellow. (Western 



Panama and southwestern Costa Rica.) Tripsurus chrysauchen (p. 123). 



TRIPSURUS PUCHERANI PUCHERANI (Malherbe). 



PUCHERAN'S WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Forehead yellow (light chrome to cadmium) ; rest of 

 pileum, together with hindneck, bright red (between poppy red and 

 carmine) ; back, scapulars, wings, and tail black, the first two barred 

 (more or less broadly) with white, as are also, usually, the greater 

 wing-coverts and secondaries, the middle coverts sometimes (but 

 rarely) more or less marked with white; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white, usually immaculate, or mostly so, sometimes more or less 

 marked with black; inner web of middle pah' of rectrices sometimes 

 with transverse spots or bars of white, but sometimes wholly black; 

 orbital and auricular regions black, inclosing a white postocular 

 spot, the black of auricular region confluent with a black area on 

 sides of neck, the latter confluent with black of back; loral and 

 rictal regions, usually also anterior portion of malar region, chm, 

 and upper throat, dull brownish white (tliis color sometimes occupy- 

 ing nearly whole of tliroat and malar region), passing into plain 

 yellowish olive or yellowish drab ^ on foreneck, chest, and upper 

 breast; lower breast, sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts light dull 

 wax yellowish rather broadly barred with black, the bars on under 

 tail-coverts more U- or V-shaped; abdomen bright red; under wing- 

 coverts white, barred with black, those near edge of wing more 

 heavily so (sometunes mostly black) ; inner webs of remiges dusky 

 with broad bars or transverse spots of white; bill dull black or slate- 

 black, usually somewhat paler at basal portion of gonys; legs and 

 feet dusky grayish (in dried skins); length (skms), 174-200 (184.2); 

 wmg, 107.5-120 (114.3); tail, 53.5-63 (58.6); culmen, 22.5-28 (23.9); 

 tarsus, 18.5-21 (19.5); outer anterior toe, 16-19 (17.4). & 



a Nothing closely approximating this color is shown in the author's "Nomenclature 

 of Colors" (edition of 1886). 

 ?> Thirty specimens. 



