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zone of tail broad, sharply defined. Wing, 6.70; tail, 5.00; bill, l.GO. 

 Hob. Middle and Western Province of United States, south into 

 Eastern Mexico to Mirador and Orizaba, and Jalapa. 

 h. Under surface and shafts of wings and tail gamboge-yellow. 



3. C. chrysoides. Hood uniform light cinnamon ; upper parts raw 

 umber with sparse, very nariow and distant, bars of black. Rump 

 immaculate ; black terminal zone of tail occupying nearly the terminal 

 half, and very sharply defined. Wing, 5.90 ; tail, 5.70 ; bill, 1.80. Hab. 

 Colorado and Cape St. Lucas region of Southern Middle Province of 

 United States. 



B. Mustache black ; a red nuchal crescent. Throat pinkish, hood ashy. 



4. C. auratus. Shafts, etc., gamboge-yellow ; upper parts olivaceous- 

 brown, with narrow bars of black, about half as wide as the brown. 



Rump immaculate ; black terminal zone of under surface of tail 

 broad, more than half an inch wide on outer feather. Edges of 

 tail-feathers narrowly edged, but not indented, with whitish. 

 Outer web of lateral feathers without spots of dusky. Wing, 

 6.10 ; tail, 4.80 ; bill, 1.58. Hah. Eastern Province of North 

 America ......... var. auratus. 



Rump spotted with black ; black terminal zone of tail narrow, 

 consisting on outer feather of an irregular spot less than a quarter 

 of an inch wide. Edges of all the tail-feathers indented with 

 whitish bars ; outer web of lateral feathers with quadrate spots of 

 dusky along the edge. Wing, 5.75; tail, 4.75 ; bill, 1.60. Hah. 

 Cuba . . . . . . . . var. chry socaulo sus .^ 



Colaptes auratus, Swainson. 



FLICKER; YELLOW-SHAFTED WOODPECKER; HIGH-HOLDER. 



Cuculus auratus, Linn. Syst. Nat., \, (ed. 10,) 1758, 112. Picus auratus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 

 (ed. 12,) 1766, 174. — Forstei:, Phil. Tran.s. LXH, 1772, 383. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. 

 Sept. II, 1807, 66, pi. cxxiii. — Wilson, Am. Orii. I, 1810, 45, pi. hi, f. 1. — Wagler, 

 Syst. Av. 1827, No. 84. — Aun. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 191 ; V, 540, pi. xxxvii. — Ib. Birds 

 Amer. IV, 1842, 282, \^\. eelxxiii. — Sitndevall, Coiisp. 71. Colaptes auratus, Sw. Zobl. 

 Jour. Ill, 1827, 353. — 1b. F. Bor. Am. 11, 1831, 314. — Bon. List, 1838. — Ib. 

 Conspectus, 1850, 113. — Baihd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 118. — Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 

 420. — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 470 (San Antonio, one specimen only seen). — Scl. Cat. 

 1862, 344. —Gray, Cat. 1868, 120. — Fowler, Am. Nat. IK, 1869, 422. — Dall& 

 Banni.ster, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 275 (Alaska). —Samuels, 105. — Allen, B. E. 

 Fla. 307. 



Sp. Char. Shafts and under surfaces of wing and tail feathers gamboge-yellow. Male 

 with a black patch on each side of the cheek. A red crescent on the nape. Throat and 

 stripe beneath the eye pale lilac-brown. Back glossed with olivaceous-green. Female 

 without the black cheek-patch. 



Additional Characters. A crescentic patch on the breast and rounded spots on the 

 belly black. Back and wing-coverts with interrupted transverse bands of black. Neck 

 above and on the sides ashy. Beneath pale pinkish-brown, tinged with yellow on the 



1 Colaptes auratus, var. clirysocaulosus. Colaptes chrijsocaulosus, Gundlach, Boston Jom-nal. 

 — Ib. Repert. I, 1866, 294. 



