^'Sof "] Anthony, Nczr Pacifc Const Birds. 34^ 



NEW RACES OF COLAPTES AND PASSERELLA 

 FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. 



BY A. W. ANTHONY. 



It is with considerable hesitation tiiat I venture to name a race 

 of Colaptes from so near the type locaUty of chrysoiiL's., but I can 

 make no other satisfactory disposition of the birds from the region 

 of San Fernando, and have separated them from the Flickers of 

 Cape St. Lucas and Arizona to be known as : — 



Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens, subsp. nov. Brown 



Flicker. 



Suhsp. char. — l)ittering' from C. c//r\'so/ifes in darker upper parts and 

 slightly smaller size. 



TvJ>e No. 5356, (J, Coll. .v. \V. A., San Fernando, Lower California, 

 May 27, 1S94. — Above brown, of a shade approximating bistre, barred 

 with numerous black bars ; pileum cinnamon brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 white with large rounded spots of black; below grayish white with num- 

 erous round and cordate black spots; throat dark ash gray; mustache 

 bright scarlet ; quills and inner siu'face of wings chrome yellow; lower 

 surface of tail wax \ellow, terminal third black. 



All of the specimens that I have examined from Arizona and 

 Cape St. Lucas have the tips of the primaries more or less marked 

 with white, which marking is nearly always lacking in my skins 

 from the northern part of the peninsula, only one specimen — a 

 female — showing a very little white on that part of the primaries. 

 The character may not be of any value, as it is probably somewhat 

 individual, but it is sufficiently noticeable in the series before me 

 to be worthy of mention. 



It would be quite natural to e.xpect specimens of Colaptes from 

 the northern half of Lower California to be more or less inter- 

 mediate between those of Arizona and Cape St. Lucas. They 

 are, however, further removed from the type form from the Cape 

 than are those from Arizona and northern Me.xico, and in the 

 series I have examined the Arizona skins are exactly intermediate 

 in the color of the upper parts between a series from Cape St. 

 Lucas and mv skins from San Fernando. 



