12 



i". Chin and throat black, the npper part 

 sometimes striped with white. 



e'". Malar stripe mulberry-red campestris S ^^-y P- 24. 



f". Malar region black, the feathers mar- 

 gined or spotted at the tip with white campestiis'^a.A., p. 24. 



g'". Malar region uniform black campestris juv., p. 24. 



j"\ Chin and throat white. 



h'". Malar stripe mulberry -red, the featliers 



tipped with white agricolu ^ ad., p. 25. 



i'". Malar stripe dusky black, the feathers 



tipped with white ayricola $ ad., p. 25. 



k". Tliroat greyish, with a few minute blackish 



specks agricola juv., p. 25. 



f. With no yellow on the face or neck. 



/". Ground-colour of the face, neck, and chest 

 sandy butf, creamy buff on the under- 

 parts and on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; the fore neck and chest with 

 heart-shaped or transverse spots of black. 

 f". With no red on the nape in either sex. 



e*. Malar stripe crimson posteriorly .... i-upicola S <id., p. 26. 



/*. With no red on malar stripe rupicola $ ad., p. 27. 



k'". With the nape red in both sexes. 



g^. Malar stripe red posteriorly puna S ad., p. 27. 



hK With no red on malar stripe j^^"^"' 2 ^-t P- 27. 



m". Ground-colour of the face, neck, and 

 chest rufous bufF, gi-ading into rich golden 

 buff on the underparts, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts paler and yellower; 

 with numerous narrow black bars on the 

 fore neck and chest ; with no red on the 



nape in either sex. _ [p- 28. 



r". Malar stripe dull crimson posteriorly . . cinereicajnilns c? ad., 

 m'". With no red on malar stripe. ....... cinereicapilltis $ ad., 



n". Ground-colour of the under surface of the [p. 27. 



body almost white ; the rump pure white. 

 n". Malar region narrowly striped with 



crimson 2«Yms S ad., p. 28. 



o" . Malar region devoid of red, and having 



a few dusky spots pitiits $ ad., p. 29. 



1 . Colaptes auratus. 



ricus auratus, Litm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 174 (17C6) ; Gm. 8yst. Nat. i. 

 p. 430 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 242 (1790) ; Barton, Nat. 

 Hist. Venn. pp. 1, 11 (1799) ; Vieill. Ois. Amer. Sept. p. 66, 

 pi. cxxiii. c? (1807) ; Bp. Sgn. B. U. S. p. 44 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. 

 Av., Picus, sp. 84 (1827) ; Less. Traite, i. p. 228 (18.31) ; Aud. 



(1839) ; id. Orn. Biof/r. v. p. 540 (18.39) ; Peah. Bost. Joiini. Nat. 

 Hist. 1841, p. 168 ; Pntn. Proc. Essex Inst. 1856, p. 214 ; Sundeo. 

 Comp. Av. p. 71 (1866). 

 Colaptes auratus, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. pp. xxvi Introd. & 

 314(1831); id. Classif. B. ii. p. 310 (18-37); Bp. Comp. List B. 

 Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 40, no. 265 (1838) ; De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. 

 York, ii. p. 192, pi. xv. fis. .33 (1844); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. 



