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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. 



Suhspecific 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 ;i 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. Z6wcop^er?/?ws Reichenbach, Handb. 

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



Suhspecific 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, Caiion 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 



^ 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. 



