22 piciD.i. 



whole of the top of the head, occiput, and nape rich rufous ; the 

 back, scapuhirs, and wing-coverts more rufescent and with broader 

 black bars ; the rump transversely spotted with black ; the central 

 pair of tail-feathers with some transverse rufescent spots upon both 

 webs ; the shafts of the quills and of the rectrices both above and 

 below are the same as in C. mexicaaus. Total length 11-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-77, wing 6-35, tail 4-65, tarsus 1-2; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0*85, outer posterior 0-8, inner anterior 0-65, inner 

 posterior 0"4. 



Ad dt female. DiflFers from the adult male in having a cinnamon - 

 rufous malar stripe. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 

 5-95, tail 4-15, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. Guatemala. 



a. c? ad. St. [Mexico.] Purchased. 



b. 2 imm. sk. [Mexico.] Purchased. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Barranco Hondo, Guatemala, Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Oct. (O. -S'.). 



d,e. S 2 ad. sk. Cohan, Vera Paz (O. .S'.). Sclater Coll. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Cohan (0. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



<•/. $ad. sk. Cohan (0.&). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. S ad. sk. Tac-tic, Vera Paz, Nov. (0. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. S ad. sk. Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala, Sdvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. (O. &). 



h, I. S ad. ; ?«. Guatemala. Tweeddale Coll. 

 2 ad. sk. 



7. Colaptes ayresi. 



Colaptes ayresii, Aucl. B. Amer. viii. p. 2.31 , pi. ccccxciv. S (1839) ; 



Bp. Coiisp. Gen. Av. i. p. 11.3 (1850) ; Heenn. Journ. Acad. Philad, 



1^53, p. 270; ^jj. C'onsih Volucr. Zxjgod. p. 11, no. 230 (1854) ; 



Meichenb. Scam. PicinfP, p. 413, no. 971, pi. dclxvi. fig. 4421 



(1854) ; Gray, List Picid. p. 120 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 202, 



no. 8829 (1870). 

 Picus avresi, DcKay, Nat. Hist. N. York, pt. ii. p. 194 (1844). 

 Colaptes hyhridu.?, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 122 (1858) ; B., B., ^ B. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 582, pi. liv. fig. 3 (1874) ; Bidi/zo. U. S. 



Gcol. JExpl. 40th Par. pt. iii. Orn. p. 556 (1877) ; Coues, Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. no. 3, p. 618 (1878). 

 Geopicus ayresii, Malli. Picida, ii. p. 260 (1862). 

 Picus liybridus, aurato-mexicanus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 72 



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Colaptes aiiratns, var. hvbridus, Ridgiv. Proc. Essex Inst. Ib/o, 



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



Colaptes auratus hybridus, Bidyiv. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 



p. 190, no. 378 a. 



The varied characters of this race are given by Baird, Brewer, 

 and Kidgway as follows : — " Yellow shafts or feathers on wing and 

 tail combined with red, or red-spotted cheek-patches. Orange-red 

 shafts combined with a well-defined nuchal red crescent and pinkish 

 throat. Ash-coloured throat combined with black cheek-patch or 

 yellow shafts. Shafts and feathers intermediate between gamboge- 

 yellow and dark orange-red." It will therefore be seen that 

 C. a/jresi is intermediate between C. auratus and C. mexkamis. 



