BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



189 



(168.5); wing, 100-102 (100.8); tail, 52.5-58 (55.1); culmen, 22-24.5 

 (23.1); tarsus, 18-19 (18.3); outer anterior toe, 12-14.5 (13.8).« 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but red of pileum duller, 

 more broken by exposure of dusky basal portion of feathers, and not 

 extending over nape; general color duller (less golden) olivaceous. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but pileum and nape 

 dusky, the feathers tipped with grayish brown; length (skins), 

 168-171 (170); wing, 100-102 (100.9); tail, 53.5-57 (55.7); exposed 

 culmen, 21-22.5 (21.6); tarsus, 17-18 (17.5); outer anterior toe, 

 12.5-13 (12.7).^ 



Eastern Mexico, in States of San Luis Potosi (Jilitla), Vera Cruz 

 (Jalapa; Cordova; Orizaba; Playa Vicente?; Papantla), Puebla 

 (Metlaltoyuca; Huachinango), and Mexico (near City of Mexico). 



Picus oleaginus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Thierw., 1830, 1 (Mexico); 



Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 55 (reprint). 

 [Capnopicus] oleaginus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 125 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 10). 

 Ch[loronerpes (Phaionerpes)] oleagineus Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinae, 



1854, 356, pi. 675, figs. 4467, 4468. 



