184 



y. $ ad. bk. 

 E. iS ad. st. 

 a. $ ad. sk. 

 fc'. fj ad. ; c'. $ 



iuiiii. sk. 

 (f'. c? ad. sk. 



e'-h'. (S ad. et 

 iiuiii.; i'fJc'. 2 

 ad. et inmi.sk. 



r. $ ad. sk. 



«i'. $ ad. sk. 



«'. 5 ^^- ^^■ 

 o. cj imm. sk. 



p. (S ad. sk. 



</'. 2" ad. sk. 

 r'. 2 iiiiiu. sk. 

 «'. J ad. sk. • 

 t' . 2 iiiini. ek. 



Cape San Luc as (J. Xautus). 



Mexico. 



Me.xici). 



Mexico. 



Mexico. 



Sonora, Mexico, 

 Lloyd) . 



April ( W. 



Ysleta, Sonora, May ( TV. Lloyd). 

 Eio Mayo, Sonora, May ( W. 



Lloyd). 

 Moctezuma, Sonora, Aug-. 

 IlermosiUo, Sonora, Nov. 

 Mazatlan, W. Mexico, Dec. 



(A. Forrer). 

 Presidio, Mexico, Dec. {A. 



Forrer). 

 San Bias, Tepic, Jalisco, April 



( W. B. Eichards(m). 

 Santana, near Guadalajara, 



Jalisco, Feb. ( W. Lhyd). 

 C'alvillo, Apuas Calientes, 



Mexico, Aug. {W. B. 



Richardson) . 



Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Gould Coll. 



Capt.Kellett& Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 

 Sahin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



28. Melanerpes elegans. 



Picus elegans. Swains. Phil. May. i. p. 439, J ad. (1827) ; Smidev. 

 Covsp. Av. Picin. p. 65 (18G6) ; Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. 

 1871, p. 356. 



Centurus elegans, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 44^ (184(1) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. 

 Av. i. p. 119, no. 5 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vulucr. Zygod. p. 11, 

 no. 219 (1854) ; Reichenb. Scans. Picina-. p. 411, no. 9(35 b (1854) ; 

 Cab. J.f. 0. 1862, p. 327 ; Sclat. Cat. Atner. B. p. 342 (1862) ; 

 Baird, Ibis, 1863, p. 476; Sclaf. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 177; Gray, 

 List Picid. Brit. Mm. p. 101 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 197, 

 no. 8763 (1870) ; Sclat. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 101 

 (1873) ; Laxvr. 3Iem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 294 (1874) ; 

 Ridqw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, p. 114; Salv. Cat. Strivkl. 

 Coll p. 399, no. 1953 (1882) ; id. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 425 ; Ferrari- 

 Perez, P-oc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 160. 



Zebrapicus elegans, 3Ialh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, 

 p. 361 ; id. Piddce, ii. p. 225, pi. cii. figs. 5, 6, cJ ? (1862). 



Melanei-pes elegans, Ridgiv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 292 (1887). 



Adult male. Back and scapulars broadly barred black and white, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts white, with narrower black 

 barring ; wings and their coverts black, the latter, likewise the 

 innermost secondaries, barred with white, the remaining secondaries 

 spotted on both webs, and the primaries having large spots and 

 patches of white on the basal portion, and the apical portion 

 externally margined with greyish white, the tips also being white ; 



