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Genus COLAPTES Swainson. (Pago 280, pi. LXXXVI., fig. 2.) 



Species. 

 Common Characteus. — Back, scapulars, and wing-covorts l)rownish, barred 

 ■with black ; rump and upper tail-eoverts white, the latter broadly barred or 

 otherwise marked with black ; outer eurftxco of quills and upper surface of tail- 

 feathers black, the shafts of these feathers bright j-ellovv or red ; under surface 

 of quills and tail-feathers paler yellow or reddish, the latter with a broad black 

 terminal band; lower parts pale vinaceous, marked with small roundish or 

 cordate spots of blaclc, the chest with a large transvei-sc. somewhat crescentic, 

 patch of black. Adult males with a broad malar stripe, or " mustache," of black or 

 red. 



a\ Shafts, etc., yellow. 



b'. Occiput with a red patch ; throat light pinkish cinnamon, or vinaceous; toj) 



of head graj'ish ; male with the •• mustache" deep black. 



c\ IJump immaculate white; length 12.00-12.75, wiug 5.50-6.G0 (6.15), 



tail 4.00-4.95 (4.45), exposed culmen 1.25-1.40 (1.33j. £gjs 1.10 X 



.85. Hab. Eastern North America, north to Hudson's Bay and 



Alaska (Yukon Valley, to Sitka), west to Great Plains. 



412. C. auratus (Linn.). Flicker. 

 c'. Rump thickly spotted with black ; wing 5.35-5.75, tail 4.30-4.80. JLib. 

 Cuba. 



C. chrysocaulosus Gundl. Cuban Flicker.' 

 P. Occiput without any red ; throat ash-graj' ; top of head cinnamon-brown ; 

 "mustache" of male bright red; length 11.20-11.70. wing 5.35-6.15 

 (5.75), tail 3.75-4.30 (4.05), exposed culmen 1.30-1.55 (1.38). Uggs 1.14 

 X -85. Jlab. Southeastern California, Lower California, southern Ari- 

 zona, and Sonora 414. C. chrysoides (M.\Lu.). Gilded Flicker. 



fl'. Shafts, etc., red. 



b\ Top of head dull brown, grayish brown, or brownish gray, becoming pcr- 

 ccptiblj- grayer (or less distinctly brown) on hind-neck, more rusty or 

 cinnamon-colored on forehead, lores, and superciliar)- region ; rump usu- 

 ally immaculate white; back, etc., grayish brown, varying to a burnt- 

 umber tint, narrowlj- barred with black, these bars always much nar- 

 rower than the brown interspaces ; " mustache" of male bright scarlet. 

 c*. Exposed culmen usually much less than 1.60 ; wing averaging decidedly 

 more than 6.25; crown grajMsh brown, or brownish gray, becoming 

 browner anteriorly ; rump pure white, or slighth* tinged with deli- 

 cate pinkish ; shafts pure orange-vermilion, or scarlet, the inner 

 webs of quills and under surface of tail deep pinkish red, varying 

 to orange-red. 

 (1\ Ligliter colored, with back graj-ish brown, lower parts pale vina- 



« Colaplet chrytocniilutui GlXDL., Ann. Lye. N. Y. vi. I?5S, 273. 



