1919- Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 413 



*Colaptes cafer collaris ( Vigors). Red-shafted Flicker. 



Colaptes collaris Vigors, ZooI. Journ., IV, 1829, p. 354 (Monterey, California). 

 Colaptes cafer collaris Nelson, Auk, 1900, p. 123, crit. ; Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 33. 



Range: Western United States and southwestern British Provinces 

 (except coast district from northern California, northward); British 

 Colombia (east of the Rocky Range), east to the Great Plains (and 

 casually farther east to Iowa, Kansas, etc.), southward to northern 

 Mexico and northern Lower California (San Pedro Martir Mountains, 

 etc.). 



t38: Colorado (Rocky Ford i. Hot Sulphur Springs 1, Rouett Co. 

 i); New Mexico (Members 2, Deming 2, Rincon 4); Arizona (Hua- 

 chuca Mts. 3, Phoenix i); California (Monterey 9, Santa Monica i. 

 Miller i, Orange i, Los Gatos i, Clipper Gap 6, Tres Pinos i, San Fran- 

 cisco 2, Palo Alto 2). 



*Colaptes cafer mexicanus (Swainson).^ Mexican Red-shafted 

 Flicker. 



Colaptes mexicanus Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, 1827, p. 440 (Real del 



Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico). 

 Colaptes cafer cafer Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 29, and 



of modem authors. 



Range : Central and southern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas, Aguas 

 Calintes, etc.) and Chihuahua? southward to Guerro, Oaxaca, etc.). 

 5: Mexico (Coyotes, Durango i; Chihuahua 4).** 



*Colaptes cafer nifipileus {Ridgway). Guadelupe Flicker. 



Colaptes mexicanus rufipileus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., II, 



1876, p. 191 (Guadelupe Island, Lower California). 

 Colaptes rufipileus, Am. Om. Union Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 195. 

 Colaptes cafer rufipileus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 37. 



Range: Guadelupe Island, west of Lower California. 

 2: Guadelupe Island (specimens mounted). 



*Colaptes mexicanoides Lafresnaye. Guatemalan Flicker. 



Colaptes mexicanoides Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., VII, 1844, p. 42 (" Mexico ") ; Sal- 



viN and GoDMAN, Ibis, 1892, p. 327 (Matagalpa, Nicaragua); Id., Biol. Centr. 



-Am., Aves, II, 1895, p. 404; Dearborn, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Orn. 



Ser., I, 1907, p. 94 (Lake Atitlan and Tecpam, Guatemala; breeding; crit.); 



Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 37. 

 Colaptes submexicanus Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 21. 



• Cf. Palmer, Auk, 1916, p. 322. 



•> Specimens from Chihuahua are apparently intermediate, but in size approach 

 mexicanus. 



