BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 121 



Guacimo; San Carlos; El Hogar; Pacuarito; Talamanca; Kio Sicsola; 

 La Vijagiia), Panama (Lion Hill; Frijole; Veragua) and Colombia 

 (Los Tambos) to western and central Ecuador « (Guayaquil; Baba- 

 hoyo; Esmeraldas; Yaguachi; Santa Rita; Quito). 



(??)[Picus carolinus] d. Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 231 (based on Picas varius 

 indicus Gerini, Orn., ii, 48, pi. 171). 



Picus aurifrons (not of Wagler) Lesson, Rev. ZooL, 1839, 102 ("Sumatra").— 

 Wagner, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 1841, 100. 



Zebrapicus pucherani Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, i, Nov., 1849, 542 ("To- 

 bago "; coll. Brit. Mus.?); Mon. Picid., ii, 1862, 227, part (Santa Marta, 

 Colombia; "Tobago"); iv, 1862, pi. 103, figs. 1, 2. 



[Zebripicus] pucherani Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 126 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod.,1854, 11). 



[CentUTUs] pucherani Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 120 ("America mer[idio- 

 nalis]"). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 101, part. 



C[enturus] pucherani Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, Picinse, 1854, 411 ("Ta- 

 bago"). 



Centurus pucherani Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 342, part (Babahoyo, w. 

 Ecuador).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 299 (Panama); viii, 1867, 

 183 (Greytown, Nicaragua). — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 328 (Ecuador; 

 Central America; crit.). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 

 280 (Bluefields, Nicaragua).— Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 320 (Chon tales, Nicara- 

 gua). — BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 49 (San Carlos and Naranjo, 

 Costa Rica).— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 591 (Rio Segovia, 

 Honduras). 



Centurus pucheranii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 286 (Babahoyo, w, 

 Ecuador; crit.), 297 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 43 (Coban and Yzabal, Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1864, 367 (Panama).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., Orn. 

 Ser., i, 1910, 276 (Guayabo and Limon, Costa Rica). 



Melanerpes pucherani Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, June 2, 1881, 95, 118, 

 in text. — Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 571 

 (Yaguachi, w. Ecuador; crit.). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 

 406 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua). — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1885, 107 (Yaguachi, w. Ecuador). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. 

 Costa Rica, i, 1887, 124 (Cartago, Jimenez, Rancho Redondo, and Talamanca, 

 Costa Rica). — Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 164, part (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua; San Jose and Turrialba, Costa Rica; Panama; Babahoyo 

 and Santa Rita, w. Ecuador). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x\d, 1893, 

 519 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1895, 415, part (Rio Segovia, Honduras; Bluefields, Los Sabalos, 

 Chontales, La Libertad, Rama, Rio Escondido, and Greytown, Nicaragua; 

 Rio Frio, San Jose, San Carlos, Naranjo, Turrialba, Cartago, Jimenez, Rancho 

 Redondo, and Talamanca, Costa Rica; Lion Hill, Panama; Colombia; w. 

 Ecuador).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 19 (Loma del 

 Leon, Panama); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, 1903, 146 (Yaruca, Hon- 

 duras). — Menegaux, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1908, 4 (Quito, Ecuador). — Car- 

 riker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 586 (Caribbean slope, Costa Rica; 

 habits) . 



a I have seen only one specimen from Ecuad6r, an example from Guayaquil in the 

 U. S. National Museum collection. 



