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cc. Suborbital and auricular regions, chin, and throat light brown or olive, the first 

 sometimes partly crimson. (Chloronerpes simplex.) 

 d. Spots on chest smaller; yellowish of posterior under parts paler, bill larger 

 (culmen in adult male 19-21.5). (Costa Rica and Nicaragua.) 



Chloronerpes simplex simplex (p. 136). 



dd. Spots on chest larger, more transverse; yellowish of posterior under parts 



deeper, more buffy; bill smaller (culmen in adult male, 18). (Northern 



Honduras.) Chloronerpes simplex allophyeus (p. 138). 



CHLORONERPES AURICULARIS Salvin and Godman. 



GODMAN'S WOODPECKER. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck uniform light gray (between 

 no. 6 and no. 7); back and scapulars plain light olive-green more or 

 less tinged or intermixed with gray, the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 similar but narrowly barred with pale yellow or yellowish white; 

 wings similar in color to back, etc., but rather brighter olive-green, 

 the terminal portion of inner webs of remiges dull grayish brown; 

 tail light yellowish olive-green, the middle rectrices dusky terminally 

 and with dusky shafts, the lateral rectrices sometimes with broad 

 indistinct bars or transverse spots of darker; loral, orbital, and auricu- 

 lar regions dull j^ale brownish buff or brownish wdiite (sometimes 

 approaching dull broccoli brown), the auricular region (at least pos- 

 terior portion) sometimes indistinctly barred with grayish; malar 

 region bright crimson; chin and upper throat dull whitish clouded or 

 irregularly flecked with dull grayish, the lower throat more regularly 

 barred with the same; foreneck and chest olive, rather irregularly 

 but sharply barred with yellowish wliite or pale yellowish (the bars 

 of the latter color sometimes nearly as wide as the olive interspaces, 

 sometimes much narrower), the remaining under parts more broadly 

 barred with olive and pale yellowish; under wing-coverts pale yellow 

 (between straw and primrose, sometimes tinged with canary), some- 

 times sparsely barred (narrowly), at least near edge of wing, with 

 dusky; inner webs of remiges yellowish gray distally, broadly edged 

 basally with pale creamy yellow, their shafts clear sulphur or light 

 canary yellow; under surface of lateral rectrices light olive-yellowish, 

 the shafts pale yellow; bill grayish black, the mandible paler (more 

 horn color) basally; feet dusky grayish (in dried okins); length 

 (skins), 202-222 (210); wing, 116.5-122 (120.2); tail, 67-72 (69.3); 

 culmen, 25-26 (25.5); tarsus, 19.5-21 (20.3); outer anterior toe, 

 16.5-18.5 (17.7).*^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male but red of malar region 

 duller (the gray at base of feathers considerably exposed), and sides of 

 hindneck very slightly tinged or intermixed with red. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but malar region streaked 

 with dull gray and whitish; length (skins), 206-212 (209); wing, 



o Three specimens. 



