154 PICIDiE. 



chest striped with white, hut differs from that species as well as 

 from M. mcIajWjwr/OH in having the white frontal band narrower, 

 and together with the chin and throat more strongly washed with 

 Icmon-yellow. Total length 8*5 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5-45, 

 tail Ji'l, tarsus 0-85 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*73, 

 outer posterior 0-73, inner anterior 0-53, inner posterior 0-35. 



Adult female. Has the crown crossed by a black band, but is 

 otherwise like the adult male. It differs from the females of 

 M. foriuicivorus and M. melanopogon in having the white and the 

 black bands together less in width (longitudinally) than the red band 

 on the occiput and nape. Total length 8 inches, culmen 1-15, 

 wing 5'2, tail 3, tarsus 0-7o. 



Hah. Southern portion of Lower California. 



a. c? ad. ; b, c. Sierra de Laguna, California, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 5 ad. sk. Mav, June (M. Abott Frazar, 



Hemh. Coll.). 

 d. S ad. sk. Tiiumfo, Lower California, Dec. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



{M. Abott Frazar, Hensh. Coll.). 



4. Melanerpes flavigula. 



Picus melanopogon (tion Temm.), Lafr. liev. Zool. 1844, p. 81. 

 Melam])icos flavigula {?ion Bodd.), Malli. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1849, 



p. 522. 

 Melanerpes formicivorus {non Swains.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i.p. 115 



(18.50). 

 Melanerpes melanopogon (pt.), Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 10, 



no. 207 (1854). 

 Melanerpes flavigula, Meichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 384, no. 886, 



pi. dcxliii. tigs. 4297-99, <^ S 6 (1854) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1855, 



p. 161 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 115 (1808) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 201, no. 8815 (1870) ; *S'fl/i'. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 398, 



no. 1945 (1882). 

 Melanerpes flavigularis, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 307 ; id. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 341, no. 2036 (1862) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 381 ; Sclat. Sf Sale. 



Novtencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 533. 

 Melampicus flavigula, Malh. Piddce, ii. p. 202, pi. xcix. figs. 5 ^ ad., 



6 5 ad. (1862). 

 Picus flavigularis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 51 (1866). 



Adult male. Differs from the male of M. formicivorus in having 

 the crown black and occiput (only) red, in this respect resembling 

 the female of M. formicivorus, except that in the latter species 

 the black space between the white forehead and red occiput is 

 narrower and has more the appearance of a band ; upon the chest 

 there is an approach to a black belt as in M. melanopogon, but it is 

 narrow and varied with a few greyish-white stripes. Total length 8-8 

 inches, culmen 1"07, wing b'Q, tail 2-9, tarsus 0*76 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-75, outer posterior 0*75, inner anterior 0-54, 

 inner posterior 0'34. 



Adult female. Wants the red occipital band, but is otherwise like 

 the male. Total length 8"8 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 5-43, tail 3*25, 

 tarsus 0"85. 



