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Melanerpes melanocephalus Pelzeln, Om. Bras., 1870, p. 247 (Barra do Rio 

 Negro). 



Melampicus melanocephalus Malherbe, Mon. Picidae, II, 1862, p. 195 (= 9, 

 Rio Negro). 



Melanerpes ruhrifrons Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 157 

 (Barra, Rio Negro; Pard; Cayenne; Guiana); Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., XXII, 1906, p. 608 (Spix's Types); Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 

 1908, p. 271 (Cayenne); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 247 

 (Pard; Benevideo; Peixe-Boi, northeastern Brazil); Chubb, Bds. Brit. Gui- 

 ana, I, 1916, p. 486; Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci., Sci. Bull., 

 II, No. 6, 1916, p. 306, crit. (Caura R., Venezuela). 



Tripsurus ruhrifrons Ba.ngs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, No. 2, 

 1918, p. 57 (Javaweg, Surinam). 



(?) Melanerpes hargitti Dubois, Synop. Av., I, 1899, p. 68, pi. 2, fig. 2.* 



Range: Guianas, eastern Venezuela, north and northeastern Brazil. 



7: British Guiana (Potaro 2, Demerara R., 2, "British Guiana" i); 

 "Venezuela" 2. 



♦Tripsurus pucherani pucherani (Malherbe). Pucheran's Wood- 

 pecker. 



Zebrapicus pucherani Malherbe, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., I, 1849, p. 542 ("To- 

 bago" errore = Colombia)''; Id., Mon. Picidse, II, 1862, p. 227, part (Santa 

 Marta, Colombia; "Tobago"); Id., IV, 1862, pi. 103, figs. 1-2. 



Centurus pucheranii Ferry, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Om. Ser., I, 1910, p. 276 

 (Guayabo and Limon, Costa Rica). 



Melanerpes pucherani Hargitt, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, p. 164, part 

 (from Nicaragua, southward); Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 

 1 188 (Novita, western Colombia); Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, p. 351 (western Colombia). 



Tripsurus pucherani pucherani Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 119. 



Range: Southern Honduras, southward to Colombia and western 

 and central Ecuador, 



t3o: Costa Rica (Guayabo 6, Limon 18, Siquirres 2, Orosi 3); 

 Panama (Veragua) i; Colombia (El Tigre, Rio Samana) i. 



Tripsurus pucherani perileucus ( Todd) . White-barred Woodpe cker. 

 Melanerpes pucherani perileucus Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, 



p. 153 (near Manatee, British Honduras). 

 Tripsurus pucherani perileucus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 122. 

 Range: Southeastern Mexico (Vera Cruz, Puebla, Orizaba, etc.), 

 southward through Guatemala to British Honduras and northern 

 Hondtu"as. 



* Melanerpes hargitti Dubois (Type loc. unknown) : Similar to cruentatus. but 

 lacks the whitish superciliary stripe (see Melanerpes sp. inc., Dubois, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 783). 



•> Designated by Hellmayr, /. c, 1911, p. 1188. 



