voLavia] NELSON, Description of a New Turkey, etc. 123 
female obtained by me at El Salto, Durango, that there is little 
doubt Floresi’s specimens came from near Bolafios, which is a 
little farther south in the same part of the Sierra Madre. 
Although there are no specimens at hand from the State of Vera 
Cruz, whence must have come the original AL, gallopavo, yet the 
climatic conditions are so different between the cold pine-covered 
mountain tops on the western side of the tableland frequented by 
* Gould’s AZ. mexicana, and the hot, humid tropical and subtropical 
mountain slopes on the eastern side of the tableland in Vera 
Cruz, the home of JZ. gal/opavo, that there is scarcely a chance 
of the birds being the same. 
Thus it will become necessary to treat JZ. gallopavo and M. mex- 
icana as at least subspecifically distinct. Whatever may be the 
relationship of AZ? mexicana to M. gallopavo, the MW. g. merriami is 
easily separable from JZ. g. mexicana of the Sierra Madre of west- 
ern Mexico, from Chihuahua to Colima. Birds from northern 
Chihuahua are intermediate. In working out these two forms, 
I have had a fine series of thirteen specimens of JZ. g. merriami, 
including the type, obtained by Mr. E. A. Goldman near Winslow, 
Arizona, and nearly as many others representing intermediates 
from the Mexican border, and typical Jf. gallopavo mexicana 
from southern Durango. 
I take pleasure in naming this handsome bird in honor of Dr. 
C. Hart Merriam, whose well-known biological survey of San 
Francisco Mountain was made within sight of the type locality. 
Colaptes cafer collaris (Vzg.). 
Colaptes collaris Vicors, Zool. Journ. IV, p. 354 (1829). Type from 
near Monterey, California. 
General Notes. — The comparison of our large series of Mexi- 
can red-shafted Flickers with birds from California and the Rocky 
Mountain region demonstrates the truth of Mr. Ridgway’s idea! 
that they represent two geographic races. 
True C. cafer is restricted to the tablelands and mountains of 
Mexico, from near the northern border south to the State of 
Oaxaca. The birds of California and the Rocky Mountain 
‘Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, p. 296, footnote. 
