408 PICID^. 



Volcan de Chinandega, Matagalpa, San Rafael del Norte {W. B. Bichardson); 

 Costa Eica, Candelaria Mts. (ffqfmann^^), Barranca (v. Franfzius^, Carmiol% 

 Turrialba {v. Fmntzius % J. Cooper % Tres Rios {v. Frantzius % Naranjo de Cartago, 

 Rio Sucio, Sarchi de Alajuela {Zeledoti 9) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 12, Cordillera 

 del Chucu 12, Bibalaz, Calobre (^rc^).— Colombia 10 ; W. Ecuador i". 



Dr. Cabot, who accompanied Stephens on his memorable expedition to Central 

 America, was the first person to describe this Woodpecker \ and having found it in 

 Yucatan, named it Picus yucatanensis. We have several specimens from that country, 

 and we trace its range thence southwards throughout Central America. It also occurs 

 in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz as far north as Playa Vicente and in the State of 

 Tabasco, a district which belongs rather to Guatemala than to the portion of Mexico 

 which lies immediately to the north-westward. A specimen from Tehuantepec, sent us 

 by Mr. Richardson, suggests that all Sumichrast's birds from that neighbourhood belong 

 to this species. In Guatemala C. yucatanensis is common in all the mountain-districts 

 up to an elevation of about 5000 feet. 



C. yucatanensis can be distinguished from C. ceruginosus by the bands of the under 

 surface being much straighter, and by the red superciliary streak extending forwards 

 to the nostril and sometimes even passing across the forehead. 



3. Chloronerpes auricularis, (Tab. LTX. a. fig. 3, 6 .) 



Chloronerpes auricularis, Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1889, p. 381^; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. 

 p. 83'. 



Oleagineo-olivaceus, dorso fere unicolore, alis extus saturatioribus, uropygio pallide viiidi-flavo stricte fasciato ; 

 capite summo toto cinereo ; genis efc tectricibus auricularibus albidis cinereo tenuiter f asciatis : subtus 

 oleagineis, fasciis pallide viridi-albicantibus hastiformibus vittatus, gula cinerea albo punctata, stria malari 

 utrinque coccinea ; alis subtus interne pallide flavis ; cauda oleaginea, reetricibus duabus mediis, rhacbi- 

 dibus et apicibus nigris, reetricibus externis obsolete transf asciatis, subtus olivaceis, rbachidibus flavis; rostro 

 et pedibus nigricanti-plumbeis. Long, tota circa 8'0, alas 4-6, caudae 2-65, rostri a rictu 1-2, tarsi 0"76, dig. 

 med. absque ungue 0"8, dig. ext. 0-6. (Descr. maris exempl. typ. ex Xautipa, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



■5 adhuc ignota. 



Hal. Mexico, Xautipa in Guerrero {Mrs. H. E. Smith). 



A single male specimen was obtained by Mrs. Herbert H. Smith duiing the expedi- 

 tion made with her husband to the Sierra Madre del Sur, in the Mexican State of 

 Guerrero, in 1888. This specimen was shot in July near the village of Xautipa. No 

 more examples have reached us, so that we have not seen a female. That sex, judging 

 from what we know to be the case in the closely allied C. godmani, no doubt only 

 differs from the male in wanting the red malar stripe on either side of the throat. 



C. auricularis, though resembling in many respects its commoner relatives C. cerugi- 

 nosus and C. yucatanensis, diff'ers from both in the entire absence of any red on the 

 head, with the exception of the malar stripes. " The nape is grey like the crown. The 

 ear-coverts, too, are somewhat conspicuously banded with grey. 



