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4. Colaptes chrysoides. 



Geopiciis clirysoides, Malh. Jicv. et Miuj. dc Zool. 1852, p. 533 ; id. 

 riridce, ii. p. 261, pi. cix. figs. 1-4 (1802). 



Colaptes chrysoides, Rckhenb. Scans. Picinat, p. 413, no. 971 b 

 (1854); Up. Cunsp. Volua: Zijgod. p. 11, no. 231 (1854); Buird, 

 B. 2s. Amer. p. 125 (1858) * ; id. TJ. S. t^ Mex. Botmd. Sure., 

 Bds. p. (5 (1858) ; Sclat. Cat. Amer. B. p. 344, no. 2055 (1862); 

 Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mvs. p. 120 (1868) ; Elliot, New S^- Unjig. 

 B. N. Amer. i. pi. xxvi. S 2 ad. (1809) ; Coop. B. Calif, ed. Baird, 

 p. 410 (1870); Gray, Haml-l. B. ii. p. 202, no. 88.34 (1870); 

 B., B., ^- R. Hist. N.'Avier. B. ii. p. 583, pi. liv. tigs. 1, 2, c? $ ad. 

 (1874) ; Pidf/iv. Proc. Psse.v Inst. 1875, p. 38; id.Proc. U. S. Nut. 

 3/ms. 1880, p. 190, no. 379; Beld. op. cit. 1882, p. 543; Coues, 

 Check-list N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 79, no. 458 (1882) ; Bcld. Proc. 

 V. S. Nat. Mns. 1883, pp. 344-349; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 

 2nd ed. p. 493 (1884) ; Scott, Auk, 1886, p. 429; A. O. U. Check- 

 list N. Amer. B. p. 218, no. 414 (1886) ; Ridytc. Man. N. Amer. 

 i?. p. 295(1887). 



ricus chrysoides, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 72 (1866). 



Adult male. Is smaller than C. auratus and C. mexicanus, both 

 of which it resembles in certain points. It differs from C. auratus 

 in having the top of the head and the naj^e cinnamon-brown, the 

 red nuchal band being wanting ; the sides of the face and neck, chin, 

 throat, and fore neck slate-grey, with a scarlet malar stripe ; the 

 underside of the tail having more of its apical portion black; the 

 tail-shafts entirely black above. The present species mainly differs 

 from C. me.vicanus in having the underside of the quills and of the 

 tail on its basal half golden yellow ; the shafts of the quills above 

 and below, and those of the tail-feathers below, on the yellow webs, 

 are also golden-yellow, the tail-shafts above entirely black ; the top 

 of the head and the nape are paler and of a cinnamon-brown. 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 5-45, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-07; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"7, outer posterior 0'65, inner 

 anterior O'oo, inner posterior 0'35. 



Adult female. Has no malar stripe whatever, but is otherwise 

 like the adult male. Total length 9-8 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 5-4, 

 tail 3-55, tarsus 1-05. 



Young female. Has the top of the head of a much duller pale 

 brown (not clear cinnamon), and a distinct malar stripe of a rather 

 lighter colour; the spots on the underparts are less intense black 

 and those on the breast very much smaller ; upon the chest there is 

 only a small patch of black, and the feathers composing it are 

 margined at the tip with grey ; the primaries tipped with dull 

 white, and the underside of the wings and of the tail, on its basal 

 half, less brilliant yellow. 



Jfab. South-eastern California, extending into Nevada, Lower 

 California, Southern Arizona, and Sonora. 



* Possibly not true C. chrysoides, but probably a hybrid between it and 

 C. mexicanus, judging by the orange tinge in the colour of the quill-shafts. 



