2. COLAPTES. 13 



p. 113 (18o0) ; Reichenh. Scans. Picmcc, p. 412, no. 970, pi. dcl.wi 

 tig-s. 4419-20, J 2 (1S54) ; Bp. Consp. Toiuci: Zygod. p. 11, no. 229 

 (1854); Baird, B.N.Amer. p. 118 (1858); iteinh. Ibis, 1801, 

 p. 8; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 344, no. 2053 (1862); Verrill, 

 Proc. Essex Inst. 1862, p. 144; Cav. Tm/l. Ibis, 1862, p. 128; 

 Blakist. Ibis, 1862, p. 3, 1863, p. 53; Allcm, Proc. Essex Inst. 

 1864, p. 53; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 470; Mclhvr. Proc. Essex 

 Inst. 1866^ p. 83 ; Coxes, op. cit. 1867, p. 263 ; Baird, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 280 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 120 (1868) ; Dall ^' 

 Bann. Trans. Chic. Acad. 1869, p. 275; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii 

 p. 202, no. 8828 (1870); Cones, B. N.-West, p.' 292 (1874); J5.j 

 B., ^ R. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 575, pi. Iv. figs. Ic? ad., 2 J ad! 

 (1874); Breiost. Ann. Lye. N. York, 1875, p. 144; Ridyw. Bidl. 

 Essex Inst. 1875, p. 38 ; Cones, Bull. U. S. Geol. Suru. iv. no. 3 

 p. 617 (1878) ; Cory, Magd. Isl. p. 52 (1878); Maijn. B. Florid. 

 p. 231, pi, xviii. (1878); Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 

 p. 190, no. 378 ; Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1882, p. 237 ; 

 Coues, Check-list N. Am. B. 2nd ed., 1882, p. 79; Stearns, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 118; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed., 

 1884, p. 493 ; Turn. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, p. 242 ; Agersb 

 Auk, 1885, p. 284 ; Ball, t. c. p. 383; A. O. U. Check-list N.Amer. 

 B. p. 217 (1886) : Breiost. Auk, 1886, p. 104 ; Se7metf, t. c. p. 242 ; 

 Thome, t. c. p. 264 ; Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 295 (1887) • 

 Warren, B. Penn. p. 137 (1888) ; Scott, Auk, 1889, p. 252. ' 



Geopicos auratus, Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49 

 p. 359. _ ' 



Geopicus auratus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 255, pi. cix. fis-s. 5-7, c? 2 ad 

 cJ juv. (1862). ' ^ ■> 



AcluU male. Eack, scapulars, and wir.g-coverts drabby brown, 

 narrowly barred with black ; rump uniform white ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, barred and varied with black ; quills blackish brown, 

 the outer webs of the primaries with a few drabby-white spots on 

 the basal portion, the inner webs more or less margined with huffy 

 white ; outer webs of primaries spotted along their whole length 

 with dtab-brown, the inner webs margined and scalloped with huffy 

 white, the innermost secondaries barred across both webs with drab- 

 brown ; sliafts of quills golden yellow ; tail black, the outer large 

 feather with a few huffy- white specks on the outer web and the tip 

 white ; shafts of central pair of feathers black with yellowish bases, 

 those of the remainder golden yellow, with more or less of the apical 

 portion black ; entire top of the head and posterior part of neck 

 smoky slate-grey ; nuchal baud scarlet ; nasal plumes, lores, and 

 superciliary region rufous ; face, chin and throat, and the whole 

 anterior portion of the neck rufescent drab with a vinous tin^e • 

 malar stripe black, and upon the chest a broad crescentic patch of 

 black ; under surface of the body white, more or less washed with 

 vinous or rufescent drab and covered with rounded black spots; 

 under tail-coverts white, with bars and varied spots of black ; under 

 wing-coverts pale golden buff, the edge of the wing white and 

 spotted with black ; axillaries golden white ; underside of quills 

 and of tail-feathers, except at the tip, and of all the shafts golden 

 yellow. Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-73, wing G-65, tail 4-45 

 tarsus 1-2; toos (without claws) — outer anterior 0-S;}, outer posterior 

 0-73, inner anterior O'Go, inner posterior 0-35. 



