420 PICID^. 



In Nicaragua M. hoffmanni appears to be equally common, as Mr. Nutting observed 

 it in numbers at most of the localities he explored, a,nd speaks of it as the most 

 abundant of the Woodpeckers of the district. Mr. Richardson also found it in 

 Nicaragua and sent us several specimens. 



8. Melanerpes santacruzi. 



? Picas albifrons, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 439 (1827) '; Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 514". 



Centurus albifrons, Cab. J. f. Ora. 1862, p. 324'; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 364 '; Salv. Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 399'. 

 Centurus santacruzi, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 116^ Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 307 '; 1858, p. 359'; 



1859, p. 367"; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 60"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 136 "; P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 837"; R. Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. &7 ". 

 Melanerpes santacruzi, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 179". 

 Picus grateloupensis, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 41 '^ 

 Centurus poly grammus. Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 326". 

 Centurus aurifrons, Lawr. (nee Wagl.) Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 35"; Sumichrast, La Nat. 



V. p. 240 '». 

 Centurus aurifrons santacruzi, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 106". 

 Centurus santacruzi pauper, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 582 ^''. 



Supra niger, dorso toto et alis stricte albo transfasciatis, pileo et nucha coccineis, fronte albida, plumis ad nares 

 auranfciis, uropygio et tectricibua supracaudalibus albis : Bubtus fascus, olivaceo vix tiuctus, gnla albida, 

 bypochondriis imis et teetricibus subcaudalibus nigro transfasciatis, abdomine medio aurantio, remigibus 

 extemis nigris, in pogonio interne ad basin tantum albo maculatis ; cauda nigra, rectiicibus duabus mediis 

 ad basin in pogonio intemo albo variegatis, interdum fasciis indistinctis albis notatis, subalaribus nigris 

 albo transfasciatis ; rostro et pedibns plumbeis. Long, tota circa 8-5, alse 5-2, caudae 2-85, rostri a rictu 

 1-5, tarsi 0-85, dig. med. absque ungue O-", dig. ext. 0-66. (Descr. maris ex Panajachel, Guatemala. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



2 mari simUis, sed pileo toto sordide albido ad nucham fusco, nucha tantum coccinea. 



Hah. Mexico i^, Tampico ( W. B. Richardson), Las Vigas, Jalapa {de Oca ^), Coatepec 

 {Ferrari-Ferez), Misantla {F. B. G.), Cuesta de Misantla, Vega del Casadero 

 (if. Trvjillo), Atoyac {Mrs. H. H. Smith), Cordova {Salle ^), Jomotla(if. Trujillo), 

 Santana, Plan del Rio; Huatusco, Cuichapa (]), Zentla, Rio Rancho Nuevo, 

 Hacienda Tortugas {Ferrari-Perez), Vera Cruz {W. B. Michardson), Orizaba 

 {Sumichrast ^^), Sochiapa, Playa Vicente {M. Tntjillo), Juchitan, Sta. Efigenia, 

 Chihuitan {Sumichrast ^^ i^), Chimalapa, Sierra de S. Domingo, Tehuantepec {W.B. 

 Michardson); Guatemala {Velasquez^, Constancia^), Santa Maria de Quezalte- 

 nango ( W. B. Richardson), Salama {Skinner ^^), San Geronimo {R. Owen ^% 

 Retalhuleu, Escuintk, El Baoul, Duenas " {0. S. & F. B. G.), Toliman, Pana- 

 jachel {W. B. Richardson); Honduras, Julian, San Pedro {G. M. Whitely^^), 

 Truxillo {Townsend 20), Omoa {Leyland ^% Comayagua {G. C. Taylor) ; Salvadoe, 

 Volcan de S. Miguel, La Libertad ( W. B. Richardson). 



It has frequently been considered that Swainson's name Picus albifrons'^ is the correct 



