20 1 NORTH AMEIilCiy BIRDS. 



rower than the black ones; breast, etc., deep smolcy 

 gray, or olive-gray ; achtlt male with red crown-patch 

 usually confluent with orange or orange-red of nape ; 

 middle tail-leathers usuallj- varied with white. Hah. 

 Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico, 

 north to Jalapa and Mirador. 



M. santa-cruzi (Bonap.). Santa Cruz's Woodpecker.' 

 /'. Bars on back, etc., broader, the white ones equal to black 

 ones in width ; breast, etc., pale brownish graj' or dull 

 grayish white; adult wiaZe with red crown-patch usu- 

 ally entirely surrounded by ash-graj* — rareh- confluent 

 ■with the orange, orange-i-cd, or j-ellow of nape ; middle 

 tail-feather alwaj's (?) entireh* black. 



Adult male : Crown with a bright red patch, usually 

 surrounded by pale grayish (paler, sometimes 

 nearly white, across forehead), but sometimes con- 

 fluent posteriorly, along the median line, with the 

 orange of the hind-neck; frontlet bright yellow. 

 Adult female : Similar to the male, but crown en- 

 tirely light grayish (paler anteriorh-), the yellow 

 of frontlet and bellj- auil orange or yellow of hind- 

 neck paler. Yovng : Much duller in colors than 

 adult, the markings much less sharplj- defined, 

 and the bright colors of head but faintly indi- 

 cated ; breast indistinctlj' streaked with duskj-. 

 Wing 5.20-5.65, tail 3.40-3.75, culmen 1.20-1.40. 

 Eggs l.Oty, -11 ■ Hab. Northoastorn Mexico and 



southern Texas 410. M. aurifrons (Wagl.). 



Golden-fronted Woodpecker. 

 C*. Ilind-ncck soft liglit grayish brown. <ir smoky drab. 



Kump and upper tail-coverts regularly barred with black. 

 Adult male: Head, neck, and most of lower parts uni- 

 form soft smokj^ drab or light grayish brown, the 

 middle of the crown with a crimson patch. Adult 

 female: Similar to the male, but no red on crown. 

 Yovng : Not essentially different from adult, but 

 markings less Rhai-|ily defined, and colors duller. 

 Wing 5.00-5.30. tail 3.50-3.00, culmen .95-1.25. Eggs 

 ,96 X -71. Hah. Southern Arizona, southeastern Cali- 

 fornia, Lower California, and western Mexico, south 

 to Mazatlan. 



411. M. uropygialis (B.mrd). Gila Woodpecker. 



' Cenlurut tanla-cniti Bo.v&r., P. Z. S. 1837, 116. 



