12. MELANERPE8. 



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having a few blackish striations, the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 thighs with almost obsolete dusky stripes. 



Adult female. Wants the red on the top of the head, the crown 

 being drab shading into the grey of the occiput. Otherwise resemblea 

 the male. Total length 9 inches, ciilmen 1-35, wing 5, tail 2-85, 

 tarsus 0"9. 



Hah. Southern Texas and N.E. States of Mexico, also along the 

 tablelands, south to the city of Mexico and westward into Jalisco. 



Hidalgo, Texas, April {F. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Armstron</). 

 Corpus Chvisti, Texas, Oct., Nov., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. (F. B. Armstrong). 



a-f. (S ad. ; g. 



2 ad. sk. 

 h-n. (S ad. ; o, 



p, q. 2 a^l- et 



imm. sk. 

 r. (S ad. sk. 



s, t. d 2 ad. sk. 



M, ». d" 2 ad. sk. 

 2V-Z. d'ad.ja'ji'. 



2 ad. sk. 



c'. c? ad.; d',e', 



f. 2 ad. sk. 



ff', h'. (J ad. ; {. 



2 ad. sk. 

 k', I', c? 2 ad. sk. 



tn'. c? ad. sk. 

 n'. (J ad. sk. 

 o. 2 ad. sk. 

 p', q. S ad. ; ?•', 



«'. 2 ad. .sk. 

 t' . (S ad. sk. 



Laredo, Texas, Julv {H. B. But- 

 cher, Hensh. Coll.). 



San Antonio, Texas, Feb., Sept. 

 (H. E. Dresser). 



N. Mexico. 



Nuevo Leon, Mexico, May {F. 

 B. Armstronff). 



Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, March 

 {F. B. Armstronff). 



Soto la Marina, Tamaiilipaa, 

 April ( W. B. Richardson). 



Sierra Madre, above Ciudad Vic- 

 toria, April ( W. B. Richardson) . 



Silao, Mexico 



Morelia, Mexico, Jan. (JP. D. G.). 



City of Mexico. 



Santana, near Guadalajara, Jal- 

 isco, Feb. ( W. Lloyd). 



Mexico. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Selater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Srtlvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Purchased. 



Subsp. a. Melanerpes santacruzi. 



Centurus santa-cruzi, Bp. P. Z. S. 18.37, p. 116, (J ad. ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 442 (1846); ^P- Consp. Ge?i. Av. i. p. 119(1850); id. 



Consp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 11, no. 221, non ajn. (1854) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 307 : id. op. cit. 1858, p. 359 ; id. op. cit. 1859, p. 367 ; 



id. <§• Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 136 (pt.); Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 60; 



Cav.-Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 119 ; Owen, op. cit. 1861, p. 67 ; Sclat. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 343, no. 2048 (1862) ; id. P. Z. iS. 1864, p. 177; 



Grat/, List Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 102 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 198, no. 8769 (1870) ; Sclat. 8,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837. 

 Picus grateloupensis. Less. Tier. Zool. 1839, p. 41, J ad. ; Wagn. 



Arch, fur Naturg. 1841, p. 100. 

 Picus chrysogenys, Viy. Zool. Beech. Voy. p. 24 (1839) ; Weigm. (ex 



Vig.), Arch, fur Naturg. 1841, p. 99. 

 Picus subelegans (noti Bp. P. Z. S. 1837), Less. Descr. d'Ois. r6c. 



decouv. p. 206, no. 34, S (1847). 

 Centurus erythrophthalmus, Reichenb. Handb. Scans. PicincE, p. 409, 



no. 962, pi. dclxiv. figs. 4407-08, cS (1854). 

 Centurus grateloupensis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 11, non syn. 



(1854). 

 Centurus flaviventris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 252. 



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