FAMILY PICIDAE 533 



CHRYSOPTILUS PUNCTIGULA STRIATIGULARIS Chapman: 

 Spot-breasted woodpecker, Carpintero Pechipunteado 



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Chrysoptilus punctigula striatigularis Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 33, March 21, 1941, p. 611. (Cali, 1,060 meters elevation, Valle, Colombia.) 



Chrysoptilus punctigula lucescens Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, April 

 1929, p. 165. (El Real, Darien, Panama.) 



Medium size; crown black, crest red, throat streaked black and 

 white ; entire side of head white. 



Description. — Length 200-215 mm. Adult male, anterior two- 

 thirds of crown black ; posterior area tipped with red, the feathers with 

 a subterminal black bar (the red tipping in some extending over the 

 whole anterior area) ; prominent nuchal crest red; lower hindneck, 

 back, wing coverts, scapulars, and inner secondaries olive-green, 

 barred distinctly with black; rump and upper tail coverts orange- 

 yellow, spotted lightly with black; two outermost rectrices brownish 

 orange barred with black; others black, edged basally with dull 

 olive-green; primaries and secondaries with shafts bright yellow; 

 three outermost primaries black ; others and secondaries dull black, 

 with outer webs olive-green spotted with black; side of head, includ- 

 ing lores and line over eye, white; a broad band of red on ramal 

 area, extending down on either side of the neck; throat and upper 

 foreneck white, with a narrow black line down the center of each 

 feather; lower foreneck and upper breast yellowish olive, each 

 feather with a small elliptical spot of black, some individuals with 

 part of these feathers dull orange-red; rest of lower surface some- 

 what olive-yellow ; abdomen plain ; lower breast, sides and under tail 

 coverts spotted lightly with black; under wing coverts and proximal 

 area of under surface of primaries and secondaries light cinnamon- 

 buff. 



Adult female, similar, but without the red band on the ramal area 

 and the side of the neck. 



Immature individuals, somewhat duller on the lower surface. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Darien and Colombia), wing 

 105.6-113.0 (108.6), tail 62.4-73.2 (67.6), culmen from base 23.4- 

 25.2 (24.3), tarsus 20.4-23.5 (22.5) mm. 



Females (11 from Panama and Colombia), wing 105.7-112.1 

 (108.5), tail 65.0-70.8 (67.5), culmen from base 21.5-24.2 (22.1), 

 tarsus 21.4-23.9 (22.6) mm. 



Resident. Rare; known only from single specimens from Juan 

 Diaz, eastern Province of Panama, and Garachine and El Real, Darien. 



