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*Chelidoptera tenebrosa brasiliensis {Sclater). Southern Swallow- 

 wing. 



Chelidoptera brasiliensis Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 275 (southeastern 

 Brazil); Id., Mon. Jacamars and Puflf-birds, 1882, p. 165, pi. 55, fig. 2 (Bahia; 

 Minas Geraes; Pemambuco)"; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 208 

 (Bahia; Minas Geraes; RioClaro; Goyaz)"; Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 40 (Bahia 

 and Itaparica). 



Chilidoptera tenebrosa brasiliensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., V, 1893, 

 p. 135 (Matto Grosso); von Ihering, Revis. Mus. Paulista, V, 1902, p. 281 

 (Bahia); Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, in text; Id., XV, 1908, p. 86, 

 in text. 



Range: Southeastern Brazil. 



2: Brazil (near Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes). 



Suborder PICI. 



Family PICID^. Woodpeckers, etc. 



Subfamily Picinae. 



Genus COLAPTES Vigors. 



Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., pt. Ill, 1825, p. 457, footnote (Type, 

 by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linnaeus). 



*Colaptes auratus auratus {Linnmis). Flicker. 



Cuculus auratus LinN/EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. 112 (Carolina). 



Picus auratus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1766, p. 174. 



Colaptes auratus Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. A. Bds., II, 1874, p. 



575, part, pi. 55, figs. 1-2; Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVII, 1890, p. 12, 



part. 

 Colaptes auratus auratus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 14. 



Range: Southeastern United States from Florida and the Gulf 

 Coast, north to North Carolina and west to southwestern Indiana, 

 southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri, and central Texas. 



fai: Florida (Juno i, Dunedin i, Tampa i, Starke i, W. Jupiter 7, 

 Gainesville 2, Lake Worth i. New River i, Punta Rassa i, Pine Island 

 -); Mississippi (Holley Springs) 2; Illinois (Mound City) i. 



Colaptes auratus luteus*' Bangs. Northern Flicker. 



» Sclater records C. t. brasiliensis from Pernambuco and Goyaz, but Hellmayr 

 has recorded C. t. tenebrosa from Goyaz. It is probable that typical brasiliensis is 

 confined to southeastern Brazil. 



^ Hybrids of Colaptes auratus luteus and Colaptes cafer collaris have been named 

 by various authors, among which are the following: Picus ayresii Audubon, Bds. 

 Am., Oct. ed., VII, 1844, p. 348, pi. 494 (Upper Missouri R.); Colaptes hybridus 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., IX, 1858, p. 122 (Valleys of Upper Missouri and 

 Yellowstone Rivers) ; Picus hybridus aurato-mexicanus Sundew ALh, Consp. Picinarum, 

 1866, p. 72. 



