I'ICID.E — THE WUUDPKCKEKS. 575 



zone of tail broad, sharply defmcd. Wln^f, 0.70 ; tail, 0.00 ; bill, 1.00. 

 Ilnh. Middle and Western Province of L'nited States, south into 

 Eastern Mexico to Mirador and Ori/.aba, and Jalapa. 

 h. Under surface and shafts ol' winirs and tail traniboire-yellow. 



3. C. chrysoides. Hood uniform li;4ht cinnamon ; upper parts raw 

 umber with sparse, very narrow and distant, bars of black. liump 

 immaculate; black terminal zoui.- of tail occupying neaily the terminal 

 half, and very sharply dehned. Wing, 5.90 ; tail, o.TO ; bill. l.J-^O. Ilah. 

 Colorado and Cape St. Lucar, region of Soutliern Middle T'rovince of 

 United States. 



L 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, witli whitish. 

 Outer web of lateral feathers without spots of dus-ky. VVing, 

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

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



Ptump 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, 1.00. Ilab. 

 Cuba var. chrysocaulosns} 



Colaptes auratus, Swainson. 



FUCKES; YELLOW-SHAFTED WOODFECKEB; HIGH-HOLOEB. 



Cuculiisauratits, Lixx. Syst. "Nat., T, (ed. 10,) 1758, 112. Picusanrafus, Lin'N". Syst. Nat. I, 

 (ed. 12,) 1766, 174. — Forstei:, Phih Trans. LXII. 1772, 383. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. 

 Sept. n, I8O7, 6Q, pi. cxxiii. — Wilsox, Am. Orn. I, 1810, 45, pi. iii, f. 1. — Wagleu, 

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

 Amer. IV, 1842, 282, pi. cclxxiii. — Suxdevall, Consp. 71. Colaptes auratus, Sw. Zu«>l. 

 Jour. Ill, 1827, 353. —Ib. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 314. —Box. List, 1838. — Ib. 

 Conspectus, 1850, 113. — Baikd, 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. Ill, 1869, 422. — Dall& 

 Baxxister, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 275 (Alaska). — Samuels, 105. — Allex, 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. ^ 



Additioxal 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 auralns, var. chrysocaulostis. Colaptes chrysocaulosus, Gundlach, Boston Jour'>al. 

 — Ib. Repert. I, 1866, 294. 



