NO. 3 NEW BIRDS FROM PANAMA AND VICINITY NELSON 3 



CHLORONERPES CHRYSOCHLORUS AUROSUS, subsp. nov. 

 Golden Green Woodpecker 



Type. — No. 232926, adult male. U. S. National Museum, Biologi- 

 cal Survey Collection, from Marraganti, in the lowlands 150 miles 

 east of Canal Zone, Panama ; collected April 4, 1912, by E. A. Gold- 

 man. 



Distribution. — Known from type locality only. 



General diameters. — In colors and color pattern extremely close to 

 chrysochlorus from Brazil but red on head a lighter shade; ear 

 coverts paler olive; stripe from nostrils back along side of head and 

 neck much richer golden, nearly orange yellow ; under parts of body 

 barred with deeper and richer ochraceous yellow between dusky 

 bars ; rectrices olive green, dusky only along shafts and at tips in- 

 stead of almost entirely dusky as in chrysochlorus; size larger. 



Description. — Entire top of head and nape bright poppy red, less 

 crimson than in chrysochlorus; rest of upper parts including top 

 of wings and upper side of tail, except the dusky brown shafts and 

 tips of feathers, bright olive green ; a narrow line on lores, broaden- 

 ing to include eyes, upper half of cheeks and auriculars light olive 

 brown, this area limited posteriorly by downward extension of red of 

 nape which touches upper border of a rich bright golden yellow 

 stripe extending from nares back below cheeks and lower border of 

 auriculars and along sides of neck ; malar patch red like crown and 

 continued posteriorly by a broad stripe of olive along sides of head 

 and neck below the golden yellow stripe; chin and throat duller 

 golden buffy than in chrysochlorus ; rest of under parts narrowly but 

 strongly barred transversely with ochraceous yellow and olive, bars 

 narrowest immediately below yellow throat patch becoming broadest 

 and palest yellow on abdomen and under tail coverts ; bend of wing 

 plain buffy yellow, narrowly barred at base of primaries on top with 

 olive and buffy yellow ; axillaries deep orange buff ; inner webs of 

 secondaries and primaries entirely deep cinnamon buff basally but 

 this color gradually narrowing to a point on inner margin of inner 

 webs, reaching half way to tips of two first primaries and gradually 

 increasing to near tips of inner webs of secondaries (in chrysochlorus 

 outside of bend of wing plain yellow ; cinnamon of inner webs of 

 primaries and secondaries paler and extending three-fourths or 

 more of length toward tip of primaries) ; tail in present form olive 

 green like back with dusky shafts and tips to feathers, in chrysoch- 

 lorus tail almost all dusky. 



