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and chestj transverse on flanks and under tail-coverts^ on the latter 

 more or less cordate or broadly V-shaped; bill dusky, usually paler 

 (more grayish or horn colored) on rnandible; feet dusky (in dried 

 skins) ; length (skins), 164-184 (174); wing, 112-117.5 (115.3); tail, 

 64-71.5 (67.5); culmen, 20-21 (20.6); tarsus, 19-20 (19.4); outer 

 anterior toe, 12-13 (12.7).« 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but red of occiput extend- 

 ing over more or less (sometimes greater part) of crown, and under 

 parts with the white more brownish and markings less sharply defined. 



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

 head, the entire occiput and nape being uniform dark sooty brown, 

 like hindneck and crown; length (skins), 166-175 (170); wing, 

 111-118 (114.1); tail, 62-70 (66.6); culmen, 18-19.5 (18.7); tarsus, 

 17.5-19.5 (18.6); outer anterior toe, 11.5-13 (12.3).« 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Ja-lapa; Cofre de 

 Perote; Las Vigas, 8,000 feet), Puebla (Chalchicomula; Mount Ori- 

 zaba, up to 11,000 feet; San Andres; Suapam; San Miguel Molino), 

 Mexico (Tetelco, Xochimilco; Mount Popocatapetl; Rio Frio, Ixtac- 

 ciliuatl) , and Morelos (Huitzilac) . 



P[iciis\ (Leuconotopicus) stricklandi Malherbe, Rev. Zool., Oct., 1845, 373 



("Mexico;" coll. — .) 

 Picus stricklandi Malherbe, Mem. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 347; Bull. Soc. d'Hist. 



Nat. Moselle, 1849, 14; Mon. Picid., i, 1861, 108, part; iii, 1861, pi. 28, figs. 



4, 5, 6. — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 



Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 334 (Jalapa).— Sundevall, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 



20, part (Mexico).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 387 (Mexico).— 



Hargitt, Ibis, 1886, 112-114, in text (crit.). 

 P[icus] stricklandi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 137. 

 [Picus] stricklandi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 99. 

 [Phrenopicus]stricklandiBoNAFAiiTB, AteTLeoltaha.no, ii, 1854, 123 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 8). 

 T[hrenopipo] stricklandi Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 71 



(Jalapa). 

 D[ryobates] stricklandi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 286. 

 Dryobates stricklandi Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 214 (base of Volcan 



de Orizaba, Puebla, 8,700 ft.).— Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (Volcan de Orizaba, 



11,000 ft.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 43 (Las Vigas, Vera 



Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 

 Dendrocopus stricklandi B.ARGiTT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 243 (Tetelco, 



Xochimilco, Mexico; Jalapa, and Las Vigas, near Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— 



Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 433 (Tetelco, and 



Rio Frio, Ixtaccihuatl, Mexico; San Andres, San Miguel Molino, and Suapam, 



Puebla; Jalapa, Cofre de Perote, and base of Volcan de Orizaba, Vera Cruz), 



571 (Rio Frio, Ixtaccihuatl, Mexico). 

 [Dendrocopus] stricklandi Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 215. 

 Picus cancellatus (not of Wagler) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 308 (San 



Andres; Suapam). 



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