12. MELANERPES. 165 



Centunis gerinii, Grmj, List Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 101 (1808) ; Leavr. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1868, p. 131; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 197, 

 no. 8765 (1870) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 009 (1872). 



Melauerpes puchenmi, Berl. ^- Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 571 ; iid. op. 

 cit. 1885, pp. 107, 123 ; Itidytv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 291 (1887). 



Adult male. Back and scapulars blue-black narrowly barred with 

 white ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, sometimes slightly- 

 spotted or varied with black ; wings and their coverts black, the 

 lower series of the coverts, both webs of the secondaries, and the 

 inner webs of the primaries spotted with white ; shafts blackish 

 brown ; tail black, the inner webs of the central pair of feathers 

 barred with white, the outer webs with a longitudinal white stripe 

 at the base, the outer large feather with transverse white spots on 

 the ajiical portion of both webs ; shafts black ; nasal plumes and 

 base of forehead golden-yellow ; crown, occiput, and nape crimson : 

 lores, lower half efface, chin, and throat buffy or drabby white ; the 

 upper half of the face and the posterior half of the side of the neck 

 black, with a white spot behind the eye ; anterior half of the side 

 of the neck, fore neck, and chest smoky brown, with a strong ful- 

 vescent tinge and almost olive ; the remaining underparts fulvescent 

 white barred with black, the abdomen crimson ; under tail-coverts 

 also fulvescent white, with squamate markings of black and white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white (slightly yellowish), barred 

 with black. Total length 7o inches, culmen 1-07, wing 4-52, tail 

 2-3, tarsus 0-S2 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'6, outer 

 posterior 0-65, inner anterior Q-o, inner posterior 0'37. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the fore part 

 of the crown dingy buffy white, the feathers having a black spot at 

 the tip, the outer edge and the hinder part of the crown black ; a 

 narrow olivaceous ashy band on the occiput and a broad nuchal 

 band (only) of scarlet. Total length 7 inches, culmen 1, wing 

 4-22, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-77. 



Hah. Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, through Nica- 

 ragua, Costa Eica, and Veragua into New Granada and Western 

 Ecuador, south to Babahoyo. 



«. 5 ad. sk. Mexico. Gould Coll. 



b,c. S 2 ad. sk. Mexico. Tweeddale Coll. 



rf.Jad.sk. Orizaba, Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



e. c? ad. sk. Guatemala. Gould Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Vera Paz (O. Salvin). Sclater Coll. 



g. (S ad. sk. Sources of the Rio de la Pasion, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Vera Paz. 



A. 2 ad. sk. Chisec, Vera Paz. Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



i. J ad. sk. Yzabal, Guatemala. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. 2 ad. St. Honduias. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



I, m. cJ ad. sk. British llorduras (Blancan- Salviu-Godman Coll. 



eau.r). 



n. $ ad.sk. Choutales, Nicaragua, Jan. {T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Belt). 



0. (5 ad. sk. San Jose, Costa Kica {J, Car- Salvin-Godman Coll 



miol) . 



