134 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult Tmle.—Length. (skins), 187-213 (200); wing, 114-123 (118.8); 

 tail, 64-71.5 (66.8); culmen, 22.5-27 (24.6); tarsus, 20-22.5 (21.2); 

 outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.4). « 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 187-211 (198); wing, 115.5-122.5 

 (118.7); tail, 64-71 (66.5); culmen, 22-26 (24.1); tarsus, 19.5-21 

 (20.4); outer anterior toe, 17-18.5 (17.7).^ 



Costa Rica (Cerro de la Candelaria; Cerro Santa Maria; SarchI de 

 Alajuela; Cariblanco de Sarapiqui; Naranjo and Azahar de Cartago; 

 Guayabo; Bonilla; Juan Vinas; Turrialba; Carrillo; La Hondura; 

 Barranca; Laguaria; Santa Maria de Dota; Atirro; Rio Sucio) and 

 western Panama (Boquete, 4,000-5,600 feet; Boqueron; Cordillera 

 del Chucu; Volcan de Chiriqui). 



Chloronerpes iiropygialis Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., x, Sept., 1862, 321, 322 (Cerro 



de la Candelaria, Costa Rica; coll. Berlin Mus.). 

 Chloronerpes yucatanensis uropygialis (not of Bangs, 1899) c Bangs, Proc. New 



Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan. 30, 1902, 33 (Boquete, Panama, 4,000-5,600 ft.).— 



Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 584 (Costa Rica; habits). 

 Chloronerpes yucatanensis (not Picus yucatanensis Cabot) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 



N. Y., ix, 1868, 131 (Turrialba and Barranca, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, 



Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 364 (Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 



1882, 23; Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 111 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. 



Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 124 (Rio Sucio, Sarchi de Alajuela, and Naranjo 



de Cartago, Costa Rica).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., Orn. Ser., 



i, 1910, 267 (Guayabo, Costa Rica). 

 C[hloronerpes] yucatanensis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 



161, part. 

 [Chloronerpes] yucatanensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 198, no. 8777, part. — 



Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 205, part. 

 Piciis yucatanensis Sundevall, Consp. Picin., 1866, 70, part (Costa Rica). 

 Chloronerpes canipileus (not Picus canipileus D'Orbigny) Salvin, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1870, 212 (Cordillera del Chucu and Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama; 



crit.). 

 [Chloronerpes] canipileus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 198, no. 8776, part. — Sclater 



and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 100, part. 



CHLORONERPES CHRYSOCHLORUS AUROSUS Nelson. 



« 



GOLDMAN'S WOODPECKER. 



Similar to C. c. chrysocJdorus, of southern Brazil and Paraguay, 

 but auricular region paler olive and distal portion of primaries more 

 extensively dusky .<^ 



Adult male. — Pileum and liindneck bright deep poppy red or clear 

 carmine red, the feathers grayish beneath surface; rest of upper parts 



o Twenty specimens. 



b Fourteen specimens. 



For comparative measurements of Panama and Costa Rican specimens see p. 132. 



c = Chloronerpes yucatanensis alleni Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, March 

 31, 1902, 83 (San Sebastian, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 6,600 ft.; 

 coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



d I doubt, however, whether these characters would prove constant in a larger 

 series of the supposed two forms. 



