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Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any red on 

 the head; length (skins), 200-248 (220.5); wmg, 121.5-132.5 (126.7); 

 tail, 72-87 (80.5); culmen, 23-26.5 (24.6); tarsus, 21.5-23.5 (22.5); 

 middle toe, 19-22.5 (20.8).« 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Santecomapam ; 

 Atoyac; Cuesalapa; Omealca; Uvero; Motzorongo; Orizaba; Mina- 

 titlan; Pasa Nueva; Buena Vista; Tolosa; Playa Vicente), Oaxaca 

 (Tiixtepec; Chimalapa; mountains near Santo Domingo), Tabasco 

 (Teapa), and Yucatan (Tizimin), and southward through Guatemala 

 (Choctum; Teleman; Gualto; Chapulco; Los Amates, Ysabal), 

 Salvador (La Libertad), British Honduras (Orange Walk; Toledo 

 District; near Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (Chaloma; Chamelicon; 

 Santa Ana; San Pedro; San Pedro Sula; San Pedro Montana; 

 Omoa; Potrerillos; Julian), Nicaragua (Greytown; Rio San Juan; 

 Rio Grande; Chontales; Lavala and Uluce, Matagalpa; Quilili; 

 Pena Blanca), to Costa Rica (Sipurio, Talamanca; Rio Sicsola; 

 Limon; Pacuare; Turrialba; Guayabo,; Angostura; Guacimo; La 

 Vijagua). 



P[icus\ castaneus Wagler, Isis, 1829, 515 (ex Lichtenstein, manuscript; coll. 



Berlin Mus.; no locality mentioned, but cites "Pic roux raye de Cayenne Hol- 



landre Abrege d'hist. nat. 3, p. 4046"). 

 Picus castaneus Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 86 (Mexico to Surinam). 



" Thirty-nine specimens. 



Specimens examined from Mexico and Guatemala have, as a rule, the color of the 

 head and crest appreciably darker than those from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa 

 Rica, but examples from British Honduras are variable in this respect, some agreeing 

 mth the more northern, others with the more southern, specimens. On the whole, 

 the difference does not seem to be sufficiently marked or constant to justify the recog- 

 nition of two forms, and probably is, to a certain extent at least, seasonal. 



