FAMILY PICIDAE 557 



Males (20 specimens), wing 101.2-106.9 (104.5), tail 43.0-51.5 

 (46.5), culmen from base 21.6-26.7 (24.2), tarsus 18.0-20.2 



(19.1) mm. 



Females (13 specimens), wing 95.9-102.7 (99.2), tail 42.7-48.2 

 (44.9), culmen from base 20.0-23.0 (21.3), tarsus 17.9-18.8 (18.2) 

 mm. 



Northern Colombia from valley of the Rio Sinu (Tierra Alta), 

 Cordoba eastward across northern Antioquia (El Pescado), southern 

 Bolivar (La Raya, Simiti, Santa Rosa) and northern Santander 

 (Hacienda Santana) north to the Caribbean coast, east to northeastern 

 Magdalena (Mamatoco). 



Centiirns rubricapillus wagleri (Salvin and Godman) 



Larger; breast duller gray, darker, less brownish than in rubri- 

 capillus; white barring on outer rectrix extensive; nasal tufts and 

 bristly feathers adjacent are paler, grayish white to buffy yellow. 



For range, other details, and measurements, see the accounts that 

 follow, which also include treatment of the two island subspecies of 

 Panama, C. r. seductus and C. r. subfusculus. 



CENTURUS RUBRICAPILLUS WAGLERI (Salvin and Godman) 



Melanerpes Wagleri Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 2, 

 January 1895, p. 416. (Loma del Leon, Canal Zone, Panama.) 



Characters. — Larger; breast duller gray (less brownish than that of 

 C. r. rubricapillus of Colombia) ; white on outer rectrix extensive; 

 nasal tufts and bristly feathers immediately adjacent paler (grayish to 

 buffy yellow) . 



Iris in male reddish brown, in female pale dull reddish brown to 

 light Verona brown; bill in some wholly dull black, in others black, 

 but with the base of the mandible dark neutral gray ; tarsus and toes 

 dull greenish gray to light brownish gray ; claws dusky neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Males (27 from Panama), wing 106.6-113.9 

 (111.3), tail 51.0-55.3 (53.0), culmen from base 22.9-27.2 (25.6), 

 tarsus 18.7-20.7 (19.8) mm. 



Females (33 from Panama), wing 105.2-109.6 (107.2), tail 44.2- 

 52.3 (49.6), culmen from base 21.3-25.1 (22.2), tarsus 18.1-20.0 



(19.2) mm. 



Resident. Common ; on the Pacific slope from the boundary with 

 Costa Rica east to the coastal region of western Darien (Punta La 

 Sabana at the mouth of the Rio Tuira) ; on the Caribbean side from 



