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Dyctiopicus jardinei Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 49 (Navarro and 



Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica). 

 Dendrocopus jardinii Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, no. 7, May 23, 1885, 



111 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 



432, part (Desengano, Cerro de la Candelaria, San Jose, Volcan de Irazu, 



Navarro, Cervantes, and Birris, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama). 

 [Dendrocopus villosus.] Subsp. y. Dendrocopus jardinii Hargitt, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 237, part (Costa Rican localities). 

 Dryobates jardinii Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 123 (Volcan de 



Irazii). — Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 (San Jose, Costa Rica). 

 D[ryobates] villosus jardinei Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 283, part (Costa 



Rica; "Veragua"). 

 Dryobates villosus jardini Jenkins, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 168, part (Costa Rica; crit.). 

 Dendrocopus villosus extimu^ Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan. 30, 



1902, 33 (Boquete, Chiriqui, w. Panama, 6,000 ft. alt.; coll. E. A. and 0. 



Bangs). 

 Dryobates villosus extimiis Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 588 (Costa 



Rica; habits).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., Om. Ser., i, no. 6, 



1910, 266 (Coliblanco, Costa Rica).— Oberholser, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xl, 



1911, 597, 620 (monogr.). 



DRYOBATES PUBESCENS PUBESCENS (Linnaeus). 



SOUTHERN DOWNY WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, auricular region, median portion of hindneck, 

 sides of interscapular region, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts, black, 

 faintly glossed with bluish; four middle rectrices black, without 

 gloss; wings dull black, passing into dark brownish slaty on pri- 

 mary coverts and terminal portion of primaries, the middle coverts 

 with a rather large mesio-terminal roundish, guttate, or cuneate 

 spot of white and a sub-basal roundish or transverse spot of the 

 same; greater coverts with a roundish sub terminal spot of white 

 on outer web and a sub-basal rounchsh spot (concealed) of same on 

 both webs; secondaries crossed by four transverse series of roundish 

 white spots, the first concealed by greater coverts, the last smaller 

 and terminal; outer webs of primaries with similar but more elongate 

 and quadrate spots, about four in number on longest quills besides 

 a smaller terminal spot or margin; a broad median stripe of white 

 on back, this sometimes slightly streaked or flecked with black; 

 two lateral rectrices, on each side, white or dull white, with two " 

 broad black bars across distal portion, the proximal one usually 

 broken or interrupted; third rectrix with distal half, more or 

 less, of outer web white, the terminal portion of inner web with one 

 or more broad white bars or spots; nasal tufts dull white, the bristle- 

 like shafts black terminally; a white supra-auricular stripe, con- 

 tinued, narrowly, above eye, its posterior end in contact with a 

 bright red nuchal band; a broad subauricular stripe of white, extend- 



a Sometimes there are more or less distinct indications of a third incomplete bar. 



