18 nciDiE. 



Colaptes collaris, Vif/. Zool. Jount. 1820, p. 534; id. Zool. BeerJict/'g 



Vo)/. p. 2o, pi. ix.' d ad. (1839) ; War/n. Arch, fur Natury. 1841, 



p. 100 ; Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 414, do. 973, pi. dclxvii. 



fig-. 4424, c? (1854). 

 Picus mexicanus. And. B. Amer. pi. ccccxvi. fig-s. 5 cJ, 6 J ad. 



(1835-38) ; id. Orn. Biofjr. v. p. 174 (1839) ; id. B. Am. Bvo, iv. 



p. 290. pi. cclxxiv. S 2 ad. (1839) ; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. 



p. 72 (1800). 

 Colaptes rubricatus, Bjh Comp. List B. Eur. S,- N. Amer. p. 40, 



no. 200 (1838) ; id. Cun^p. Valuer. Zygod. p. 11, uo. 232 (1854); 



LicM. Nomencl. Av. p. 77 (1854) ; Reichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 413, 



no. 972, pi. dclxvi. figs. 4422-23, S $ (1854). 

 Colaptes coUaris, Reichenb. Scans. Picina,^. 414, no. 973, pi. dclxvii. 



fig-. 4424, 6 (1854). 

 Geopiciis mexicanus, MaUi. Picida, ii. p. 202, pi. ex. figs. 4, 5, 



J 5 ad. (1802). 

 Colaptes auratus mexicanus, Ridyw. Proc. Essex Inst. 1874, p. 171 ; 



id. op. cit. 1875, pp. 13-34 ; id. P-uc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1880, p. 190, 



no. 378 b ; Hensh. Auk, 1880, p. 79. 

 Colaptes auratus, yar. mexicanus, Ridqtc. Proc. Essex Inst. 1875, 



p. 38 ; Beld. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mm. 1878, p. 430. 

 Colaptes mexicanus rufipileus, Ridyw. Bull. U. S. Geol. 8; Geoyr. 



Surv. Terr. ii. uo. 2, p. 191 (1876). 

 Colaptes rufipileus, .R%?y. Btdl. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii. p. 60(1877); 



id. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, p. 190, no. 380 ; A. 0. U. Clieck- 



list N. Amer. B. p. 218 (1886) ; Ridgtv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 296 



(l'^^-")- . . . ... 



Colaptes mexicanus saturatior, Ridyio. Proc. Biol. Sac. flash, li. 



p. 90 (1882-4). 

 Colaptes cafer, A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 218 (1880) ; 



Scott, Auk, 1886, p. 428 ; Lloyd, op. cit. 1887, p. 191 ; Ridyio. Man. 



N. Amer. B. p. 290 (1887). 

 Colaptes cafer saturatior, A. O. JJ. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 218 



(1886) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p, 290 (1887). 



Adult male. Differs from C. auratus in having the top of the 

 head and the posterior portion of the neck brown like the back, the 

 forehead more rufescent ; the face, chin and throat, and the entire 

 anterior portion of the neck slaty grey ; malar stripe scarlet; the 

 underside of the quills and of the tail-feathers, except at the tip, 

 and likewise of all the shafts orange-red ; the shafts of the quills 

 and of the tail-feathers above are also orange-red, except the 

 greater portion of those of the central pair of tail-feathers and of 

 the aidcal portion of those of the lateral feathers. There are other 

 minor differences. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1'55, wing 6, 

 tail 3-8, tarsus 1'12 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'8, outer 

 posterior 0-75, inner anterior 0-i')2, inner posterior 0'38. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red 

 malar stripe, this being replaced b}' a spot of cinnamon-brown at 

 the base of the lower mandible, and an almost obsolete trace of 

 this colour occupying the same tract the red does in the opposite 

 sex. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1"35, wing 6-25, tail 4--1, 

 tarsits 1'12. 



Specimens from Yancouver Island are of large size and have the 

 top of the head and the back dark, and the underparts deeply 



