406 JICID^. 



b". Tarsus qnam digitus pedis externus (reversus) cum ungue aut hrevior, 

 aut cequalis ; maxilla supra nares rugosa. 



CHLOTiONERPES. 



Chloromrpes, Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii. p. 307 (1837) ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 69. 



This is a purely Neotropical genus containing, according to Mr. Hargitt, seventeen 

 species, which are spread over the greater part of the region from its most northern 

 boundary in Mexico to Paraguay and Argentina. Six species are found within our 

 limits, all of them peculiar, except C. yucatan^nsis, which ranges into the north-western 

 parts of the southern continent. Of the other species, three are restricted to Mexico 

 and two to Costa Rica and Panama. 



The bill is curved, with a distinct ridge on each side of the culmen ; the tarsus is less 

 than the outer reversed toe and its claw ; the wing moderately long ; the tail rather 

 short, the short outer rectrix reaching nearly to the tips of the longest coverts. 



a. Majores, remigibus intus ad basin pallide fiavidis. 



1. Chloronerpes seruginosus. 



? Picus poliocephalus, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 1 (1880) (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 55) '. 



Chloronerpes rubiginosus, Gray (nee Sw.)^ Gen. Birds, ii. p. 443, t. 110 (1846) '. 



Chloronerpes ceruginosus, Liclit. Mus. Ber.^; Gray, Gen. Birds, App. p. 22*; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 388 ' ; 1864, p. 177 ' ; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 240 (partim) ' ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus. xviii. p. 81 ^ 

 Chloronerpes yucatanensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 307' ; 1859, p. 367". 



Supra olivaeeus, alis extrorsum oleagineis, uropygio fasciis indistinotis flavidis notato, capite summo plutnbeo, 

 nucha cum regione parotica, supra oculos evanescente et stria malari coccineis, loris et oculorum ambitu 

 sordide albis, auricularibus paulo obscurioribus : subtus obscure olivaeeus, plumis guise utrinque albis, vitta 

 mediana olivacea, corpore toto reliquo fasciis sagittiformibus flavis ornato ; alis subtus interne pallide flavis ; 

 Cauda supra oliyacea, rectricum apieibus nigris : subtus pallide olivacea, recirioum rhachidibus flavis ; rostro 

 et pedibus nigricanti-plumbeis. Long, tota circa 8'5, alse 5-3, caudsB 3'1, rostri a rictu 1-25, tarsi 0-95, 

 dig. med. absque ungue 0-8, dig. ext. 0-7. (Descr. maris et Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. Mus. riostr.) 

 2 mari slmilis, sed stria malari coccinea nulla. 



Hab. Mexico [Beppe & Schiede ^), Sierra above Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Tampico 

 [Michardson), Cordova (Salle ^), Jalapa (Deppe in Mus. Ber., de Oca'^^, F. B, G., 

 Ferrari-Perez), Coatepec, Huatusco, Zentla (Ferrari-Perez), Orizaba (Sumichrast '', 

 Ferrari-Perez), Atoyac (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Teotalcingo (Boucard ^). 



The Eastern Cordillera of Tamaulipas, and thence southwards through the whole of 

 the central and northern portion of the State of Vera Cruz on the flanks of the 

 mountains sloping towards the Atlantic Ocean and onwards to the State of Oaxaca, 

 is the home of this Woodpecker, wnere it ranges from the sea-level to as high as 

 5000 feet in the mountains. It appears to be strictly confined to this region, for 

 immediately to the southwards, in Southern Vera Cruz, in the State of Tabasco, and in 



