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ually on more posterior under parts to pale citron yellow, broadly 

 and rather regularly barred with olive, the under tail-coverts, how- 

 ever, with the yellowish bars much narrower than the olive inter- 

 spaces; bill grayish black; iris brown ;'^ feet dusky grayish (bluish 

 ash in life);° length (skins), 221-261 (240) ; wing, 130.5-137 (133.6); 

 tail, 81.5-90 (86.3); culmen, 25-29 (26.6); tarsus, 2.3-25 (23.7); 

 outer anterior toe, 20-21 (20.4).^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but under parts of body 

 much less distinctly barred (sometimes whole abdomen and flanks 

 nearly immaculate) and much duller yellowish; chest and foreneck 

 regularly barred, but the bars less strongly contrasted; and red of 

 nape extending forward, along sides of crown and forehead, to base 

 of bill. 



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

 gray or grayish white, narrowly streaked with blackish, and red of 

 nape not extending laterally to eye; length (skins), 217-250 (226); 

 wing, 127.5-135.5 (130.9) ; tail, 78-89 (85.5) ; culmen, 2.3-25.5 (24.2); 

 tarsus, 22-23.5 (22.6); outer anterior toe, 18-19.5 (18.7).^ 



Eastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Orizaba; 

 Mirador; Coatepec; Papantla), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), San Luis 

 Potosi (Jilitla), Nueva Leon (Cerro de la Silla; Boquillo), and 

 Tamaulipas (Victoria; Sierra Madre, above Victoria; Tampico; Alta 

 Mira; Rio Pilon; Rampahuila; Rio Santa; Rio de la Cruz; Santa 

 Leonora; Guiaves; Galindo; Potrero; Rio Martinez). 



{?)Picus poliocephalus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 1 (Mexico); 

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



C[hloronerpes] rubiginosus (not of Swainson) Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 443. 



Chloronerpes rubiginosus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, pi. 110. 



C[hlor oner pes] xruginosus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 22 (ex Lichten- 

 stein manuscripf); nomen nudum! 



Chloronerpes seruginosus Gray, List Picidse Brit. Mus., 1868, 104 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz).— ScLATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 339 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— Sumi- 

 CHRAST, La Naturaleza, v, 1882, 240, part (Orizaba, Vera Cruz).— Hargitt, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 81 (Tampico, and Sierra Madre above 

 Victoria, Tamaulipas; Cordova, Jalapa, Orizaba, and Coatepec, Vera Cruz; 

 Atoyac, Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 

 406.— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 629 (Alta Mira, Tamau- 

 lipas).— Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Rampahuila, Rio Santa, Rio de la 

 Cruz, Rio Martinez, Santa Leonora, Guiaves, Galindo, and Potrero, Tamauli- 



[Chloronerpes] aeruginosus Lichtenstein, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 76. 

 [Chloronerpes] seruginosus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 124 (Consp. 



Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 9).— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 198, no. 8775.— Scla- 



TER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 



1900, 205. 

 C[hloronerpes] aeruginosus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 18G3, 161 



(Jalapa) . 



a According to Sumichrast. & Ten specimens. 



