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Adult female.— Length (skins), 260-303 (284); wing, 162.5-169 

 (166); tail, 101-111 (106.1); culmen, 29-32.5 (30.4); tarsus, 23.5-26 

 (24.7); outer anterior toe, 21-23.5 (22.2).« 



Western Mexico, in States of Sonora (Sierra de Alamos), Sinaloa 

 (Mazatlan; Rosario; Culiacan; Escuinajja; Rio Juana Gomez), Jalisco 

 (Plains of Colima), Colima (Rio Tupila), Guerrero (Acapulco; Aca- 

 huitzotla; Sihuatenejo; Papaya; La Lagunilla) and western Oaxaca 

 (Putla), and Territory of Tepic (San Bias). 



Picus scapularis Vigors, Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, 354 (San Bias, Tepic, w. Mexico; 

 coll. Zool. Soc); Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' 1839, 23 (San Bias).— Baird, in Rep. 

 Stansbury's Surv. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 333. — Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin,, 

 1866, 8, part. 



P[icus] scapularis Wagler, Isis, 1829, 509. 



D[ryocopus] scapularis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 436. 



[Dryocopus] scapularis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 133, part. — Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 118, no. 8638.— Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 

 99, part. 



Dryocopus scapularis Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 293 (Mazatlan, 

 Sinaloa; Plains of Colima and Rio Tupila, Colima). 



C[ampephilus] scapularis Reichenbach, Handb., Scansores, Picinae, 1854, 394 

 (San Bias). 



[Driopicus] scapularis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 122 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 8). 



Ceophloeus scapularis Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1890, 510, part (Sierra 

 de Alamos, Sonora; Mazatlan; San Bias; Putla, w. Oaxaca) — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 450, part (Sierra de Alamos; 

 Mazatlan; San Bias; Plains of Colima; Rio Tupila; Putla; Acapulco, Guer- 

 rero).— Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 352 (Escuinapa 

 and Rio Juana Gomez, s. Sinaloa). — Bailey (H. H.), Auk, xxiii, 1906, 388 

 (San Bias, Tepic). 



C[eophloeus] scapularis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 290, part. 



[Ceophloeus] scapularis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 232, part. 



Genus PHLCEOTOMUS Cataanis and Heine. 



Driopicus (not Dryopicos Malherbe, 1849, nor Dryopicus Malherbe, 1850) Bona- 

 parte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 122 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 8). (Type, 

 Picus pileatus Linnaeus; see Stejneger, Auk, ii, 1885, 52.) , 



Eylatomus (not Hylatoma Latreille, 1804) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 107. (Type, by orig. desig., Picus pileatus Linnaeus.) 



Eylotomu^ (emendation) Cabanis, Journ. fiir Om., 1862, 176. 



Phloeotomus b Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, July, 1863, 102. 

 (Type, by monotypy, Picus pileatus Linnaeus.) 



Very large Picidse (wing about 210-255 mm.) resembling Ceophloeus, 

 but differing in much more depressed bill with straighter culmen and 

 relatively longer gonys (nearly to quite twice as long as mandibular 

 rami), greater development of postnasal (prefrontal) antrorse plumes, 



a Nine specimens. 



b "Au3 <l>Xoi6c (Rmde) und rifivco (schneiden) zusammengesetzt." (Cabanis and 

 Heine.) 



