186 MCID^. 



*, M. d 2 ad. sk. Tepic, May ( W. B. Richard- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



son). 

 V, to. (S ad. sk. Beltran, Jalisco, April ( W. Salvin-Godmati Coll. 



Lloyd) . 

 X. c3" ad. sk. Hac. San Marcos, Jalisco Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4000 ft. ( W. Lloyd). 

 y. c? ad. sk. Plains of Colima, Jan. {J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Xanttfs). 

 z, a', c? ad. ; b', Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c'. 2 ad. sk. Sept. {Mrs. H. H. Smith). 



d', e'. (S 2 ad. sk. Acapulco, March {A. H. Mark- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ha7n). 

 y. c? ad. sk. Dos Arroyos, State of Guerrero, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. (Mrs. H. H. S^nith). 

 g , h' . (S $ imm. Epatlan (Izucar), Puebla, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. Nov. 



29. Melanerpes hypopolius. 



Picus hypopolius, Wagl. Lsis, 1829, p. 514; Sunder. Consp. Av. 



Picin.'-p. 55 (1866). 

 Zebrapicus hypopolius, iWrtM. N. Ckissif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-9, 



p. 361 ; id. Picidm, ii. p. 228, pi. ciii. hgs. 4, 5, ^ $ ad. (1862). 

 Centurus hypopolius, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 11 (1854) ; 



Reichenb. Scans. Picin<t, p. 410, no. 965, pi. dclxv. figs. 4413-14 



(cJ $ , incorrect) (1854) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 76 (1854) ; Cab. 



J.f. 0. 1862, p. 329; Sclat. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 



(1873) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 176 ; Laior. Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 1876, p. 35; Ridyic. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1881, p. 113; 



Ferrari-Perez, op. cit. 1886, p. 160. 

 Melanerpes hj-popolius, Ridyxv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 292 (1887). 



Adult male. Back, rump, and scapulars greyish white, barred with 

 black ; upper tail-coverts white, striped with black ; wing-coverts 

 and quills black, the former barred with pure white, the primaries 

 white on their basal portion, and the secondaries spotted on both 

 webs with the same, the tips of all the quills margined with white, 

 and the shafts black ; tail black, the central pair of feathers white 

 at the base and crossed on the inner web by narrow black bars, the 

 two outer large feathers spotted or margined on the outer web and 

 tip of the inner web with w^hite; shafts black ; nasal plumes smoky 

 brown ; frontal band buffy white ; lores smoky white ; the top of 

 the head, face and entire neck, and the whole of the underparts, 

 except the lower part of the abdomen, vent, and thighs, smoky or 

 purplish drab, darker on the top of the head and whiter on the chin, 

 the centre of the crown and a spot below the ear-coverts crimson, 

 and the eye encircled with black ; vent, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts white, the abdomen spotted, the flanks and thighs barred, 

 and the under taU-coverts with stripe-like spots and squamate 

 markings of black ; under wing-coverts white, spotted and barred 

 with black ; axillaries smoky brown. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0-95, wing 4-95, tail 3"15, tarsus 0-85; toes (without claws) 

 — outer anterior 0-52, outer posterior 0"55, inner anterior 0*42, inner 

 posterior 0*27. 



