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yellowish white, horn color, or dusky. Wing 167-200 mm.; 

 bill 35-45 mm. Female, similar to the male but malar stripe 

 slaty black and with pileum (but not the crest) black, auricular 

 patch darker. Wing 170-197 mm.; bill 34-43 mm. 



Coephloeus lineatus scapularis (Vigors). 



Picus scapularis Vigors, Zool. Journ. 4, 1829, p. 354, San Bias 

 (Nayarit), Mexico. 



Subspecific characters. — Subocular and subauricular stripe 

 indistinct or obsolete (except buffy loral portion); ground color 

 of posterior underparts buffy whitish, paler on sides, regularly 

 barred with blackish brown; basal portion of flight quills pale 

 buffy; 1 streaking on throat black and white in about equal 

 amounts; bill whitish or pale horn color. 



Size small. 1 male, wing 172 mm., bill 35.5 mm.; 1 female, 

 wing 171 mm., bill 34 mm. 



Specimens examined. — 1 male and 1 female from Alamos, 

 southern Sonora. 



Range. — Western Mexico from southern Sonora south to 

 western Oaxaca. 



Ceophloeus lineatus leucopterylus (Reichenbach). 



Campephilus lineatus var. ?c. leucopterylus Reichenbach, Handb. 

 Scans. Picinae, 1854, p. 392, pi. 647, fig. 4319, 4320. (Mexico.) 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to C. I. scapularis but sub- 

 ocular and auricular stripe well developed; ground color of 

 posterior under parts averaging more buffy; basal portion of 

 flight quills much deeper buff. Size larger. Wing, 12 males, 

 177-189 (184) mm.; bill 37-40.5 (38.9) mm. Wing, 7 females, 

 169-185 (178.4) mm.; bill 34.5-37 (36.1) mm. 



Specimens examined. — 12 males and 7 females from State of 

 Tamaulipas (Ciudad Victoria, Tampico, Altamira, Santa Leonor, 

 Rio Martinez, Canon Guiaves, Rio Santa Engracia). 



Range. — Southern Tamaulipas and probably adjacent portions 

 of San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Leon and Vera Cruz. 



Remarks. — Ridgway declined to recognize a race of Ceophloeus 



1 Ridgway (Birds No. and Mid. Amer., pt. 6, 1914, p. 148) states that this 

 color varies with the age of the specimen and freshness of plumage; this is 

 true, but in some races this color is deeper than in others. 



