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zone of tail broad, sl>arply dufinccl. Wiiif?, C.70 ; tail, ij.OO ; bill, 1.(50. 

 Iliih, MidiUo ami Wutitcrii I'lovinco of L'liited States, south into 

 Eastern Mexico to Mirndor and Orizaba, and Jalapa. 

 h. Under surface and shui'ls of wiiii^s and tail f,'anibof;e-yello\v. 



3. C. chryrjoidea. Hood uniform lii,dit cinnamon ; ui)i)er parts raw 

 umbel with sparse, • cry mirrow and distant, bars of black. Knnip 

 immaculivtc ; black teiininal v.oxw of tail occiipyini; nearly the tcniiinal 

 half, and very sharply delinod. Wing, 5.90 ; tail, 5.70 ; bill, 1.80. Ilnh. 

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

 United States. 



Ba Mustache black; u red nuchal crescent. Throat pinki.^h, hood ashy. 



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

 brown, with narrow bars of black, about half lus 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, 

 G.IO ; tail, 4.80 ; bill, 1..58. Ilab. 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 le.«s than a quarter 

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

 whiti.sh bars ; outer web of lateral feathers with quadrate spots of 

 dusky along the edge. Wing, 5.75; tail, 4.75 ; bill, l.GO. Ilab. 

 Cuba var. chry socaulosns} 



Colaptes auratus, Swaixson. 



FLICKSK; TELLOW-SHAPTES WOODFECKEB; HiaH-HOLSES. 



Cuculus nuralns, Lixs. Syst. Nat., I, (ed. 10,) 1758, 112. I'icm auratus, Lixs. Syst. Nat. I, 

 (cd. 12,) 1760, 174. — Fok.stei!, Phil. Tran.s. LXII, 1772, 383. — Vif.illot, Ois. .\m. 

 Sept. II, 1807, 66, pi. cx.xiii. — AVii.sox, Am. Orn. I, 1810, 45, pi. hi, f. 1. — Wagi.ki!, 

 Syst. Av. 1827, No. 84. — Am. Oni. Biog. I, 1832, 191 ; V, 510, pi. xx.xvii. — Ib. Birds 

 Amer. IV, 1842, 282, i>l. oclxxiii. — Si-xdkvai.i,, ( "onsp. 71. Coluptcs uumtus, Sw. Zoiil. 

 ■Tour. Ill, 1827, 353. — In. F. Hor. Am. II, 1831, 314. — Box. List, i838. — In. 

 Conspectu.s, 1850, 113. — B.Miin, Birds N. Am. 1858, 118.— Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 

 420. — DiiKssKU, Ibis, 1865, 470 (San Antonio, one speciTiicii only seen). — Sci,. Cat. 

 1862, 344. —Okay, Cat. 1868, 120. — Fowi.kk, Am. Nat. Ill, 1869, 422. — 1)ai.l& 

 Baxnister, Tr. Chicago Ac. I, 1869, 275 (Alaska). — Sa.muki.s, 105. — Ai.lex, B. E. 

 Fla. 307. 



Sp. Chau. 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 p.ale lilac-brown. Back glossed with olivaceous-green. Female 

 without the black cheek-patch. 



AnuiTioNAL Ciiaractkrs. 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 



* Colaptes auratus, var. chrysocaulosus. Colaptes chi-ysoeatdosus, Gundlacii, Boston Jour'\al. 

 — Ib. Report. I, 1866, 294. 



