258 NeELson, New North American Birds. Te 
enclosing on sides the small crown patch of scarlet; latter separated from 
rich orange nape by broad band of dark smoky gray nearly uniform with 
rest of head, neck and breast; middle of back and rump broadly barred © 
with black and white as in MW. hoffmanni (the white bars much broader 
than in AZ. santacruzz); upper tail-coverts white, with broken \-shaped 
black markings; middle tail-feathers white broadly barred on basal third 
and along inner webs, except at tips, with black; border of outer webs on 
distal third and entire tips black, upper surface of wings broadly barred 
with white; middle of primaries with irregular but well marked white 
area; abdomen barred with dull black and white and thinly washed with 
orange yellow; under tail-coverts white heavily barred with black; two 
outer tail feathers black with well marked white bars. 
Dimensions of type. — Wing, 135; tail, 81; culmen, 30; tarsus, 21. 
General notes. — M. frontal’s resembles M. hoffmanni of Costa Rica, 
but is considerably larger, with a smaller red patch on the crown, and the 
lower parts are much paler gray with a paler wash of yellow on the 
abdomen. Thecrissum is strongly barred black and white in place of the 
V-shaped marks of JZ hoffmanni and the two outer tail feathers are dis- 
tinctly barred with white. 
Melanerpes santacruzi fumosus, subsp. nov. Smoky- 
BREASTED WOODPECKER. 
Type, No. 154964, @ ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection. 
Huehuetan, Chiapas, Mexico, March 2, 1896, E. W. Nelson and E. A- 
Goldman. 
Distr tbution. — Pacific Coast district of southern Chiapas and adjacent 
part of Guatemala. 
General characters. — Generally similar to M. santacruzi but smaller 
with heavier bill, darker back; under parts grayer, less brownish ; lower 
rump and upper tail-coverts barred or marked with black. 
Description of type. — Nasal tufts faintly washed with yellow; forehead 
dull whitish; crown and nape with a broad continuous band of scarlet 
tinged posteriorly with golden; back and top of wings broadly barred 
with black and narrowly barred with white; rump white irregularly 
marked with black; upper tail-coverts with black shaft lines; middle tail 
feathers black, lateral ones inconspicuously marked with white; sides and 
under parts of head, neck and body to abdomen dark, dingy, smoky gray 
with a slight brownish tinge; abdomen obsoletely barred with black and 
dull whitish and washed with orange; under tail-coverts strongly barred 
black and white. 
Dimensions of type. — Wing, 137; tail, 76; culmen, 31; tarsus, 22. 
