240 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Melanerpes wagleri sancta-martce Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 



1898, 134 ("Santa Marta " ; orig. descr. ; type now in Mus. Comp. Zool. ; 



meas. ; crit.). — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, II, 1900, 18 ("Santa 



Marta"; crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N.at. Hist., XIII, 1900, 120, 136 



(Santa Marta and Bonda). 

 Melanerpes sanctcr-martcc Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, II, 1900, 211 (ref. orig. 



descr.; range).- — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 172 (ref 



orig. descr.; range). 

 Centurus subelcgans sanctce-martce Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1903, 1058 (Santa 



Marta, in range; ref. orig. descr.). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 



50, VI, 1914, 53 (diag. ; range; references). 74 (meas.). 

 Centurus tvagleri sancta-martce Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, 



281 (Mamatoco; descr. nest and eggs). 

 Melanerpes terricolor satictcr-martcc Hellmayr and von Seilern, Arch. f. 



Naturg., LXXVIII, 1912, 150, in text (Santa Marta region; crit.). 

 Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



XXXVI, 1917, 351 (Bonda; crit.). 



Twenty specimens : Bonda, Mamatoco, Santa Marta, Don Diego, 

 Rio Hacha, and Fundacion. 



The proper name for this woodpecker has been the subject for con- 

 siderable difference of opinion, as the above list of references shows. 

 It was described by Mr. Bangs in 1898 under the name sanctce-martcc, 

 but this designation is long antedated by Centurus rubricapillus Caba- 

 nis, 1862, a name provisionally applied to a bird from Barranquilla, 

 Colombia, which we now know is precisely the same as that from the 

 Santa Marta region. If, as claimed by Messrs. Hellmayr and von 

 Seilern, Centurus subelcgans Bonaparte is not pertinent, Cabanis' name 

 must be adopted as the earliest valid specific designation for the mem- 

 bers of this group, as already said by Dr. Chapman. With a series of 

 sixty-two specimens, representing various parts of the general range 

 of the species, we find great difficulty in discriminating any of the 

 several geographic races commonly recognized. There is certainly no 

 constant difference in general color correlated with locality, although 

 there is considerable seasonal variation. The differences in size are 

 too slight and inconstant to be seriously considered. Costa Rican ex- 

 amples (wagleri) seem to have the abdominal red patch more re- 

 stricted, and to have rather more white on the lateral rectrices, than 

 the typical form, but it is a question whether it is worth while to 

 recognize this difference in nomenclature. Birds from Venezuela 

 (terricolor), on the other hand, have rather less white on the lateral 



