450 PICID^. 



another closely allied, C. scapnlaris, is restricted to Mexico aud Central America, The 

 genus is thus purely Neotropical, and its range northwards follows the woods on each 

 side of the Mexican highlands to the States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas on the 

 east, and to Sonora on the west. 



With a general resemblance to the species of Campophilus, which are barred on the 

 under surface, Ceophloeus is not quite so stoutly built, and has a more feeble bill ; the 

 proportion of the toes, too, is different, and forms a good distinguishing character, for 

 in Campophilus the outer toe (reversed) is longer than the middle toe, whereas in 

 Ceophloeus the reverse is the case, and the middle toe is the longer of the two. 



1. Ceophloeus scapularis. 



Picus scapularis, Vig. Zool. Journ. iv. p. 354 ^ ; Zool. Voy. ' Blossom,' p. 23 ^ 



Dryocopus scapularis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 306'; 1858, p. 359*; 1859, p. 367'; Moore, P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 60"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 135'; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. ix. p. 205 ' ; Mem. Best. See. N. H. ii. p. 293 " ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 34 '' ; 



V. Frantz. J. f . Orn. 1869, p. 364 " ; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 240 '' ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 385 ". 

 Ceophloeus scapularis, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 176 '° ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 159 " ; 



Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 582 '' ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 123 " ; 



Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 510 ''. 

 Hylotomus scapularis. Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 387 "". 

 Picus similis, Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 204 ^'. 



Campephilus leucorhamphus, Reich. Scans. Picinse, p. 393, t. 648. figg. 4327-8 ". 

 Dryotomus delattrii, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 656 ". 



Supra niger, scapnlaribus extus albis, pileo toto plumis ad nucham elongatis cristam formantibus et stria 

 malari coccineis ; capitis lateribus, oculorum ambitu ineluso, saturate plumbeis, linea angusta utrinque a 

 naribus usque ad pectoris latera albida, parte antica aurantio tincta : subtus gula alba nigro guttata, 

 cervice et pectore jiigris, abdomine toto albido nigro regulariter transfasciato ; alis et cauda nigricantibus, 

 liujus remigibus ad basin et tectricibus subalaribus fulvo-flavicantibus ; rostro eburneo ; pedibus plumbeis. 

 Long, tota circa 12-0, alae 7-0, caudse 4-65, rostri a rictu 1-75, tarsi 1*1, dig. med. absque ungue 0-9, dig. 

 ext. 0'7. (Descr. maris ex La Libertad, Salvador. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis, pUeo antico et regione malari nigricantibus. 



Hob. Mexico, Hacienda de la Cruz and Villa Grande in Nuevo Leon [F. B. Armstrong), 

 Sierra above Ciudad Victoria, Aldama, Tampico, Valles {W. B. Richardson), 

 Jalapa [de Oca ^, Ferrari-Perez i^), R. Juan Martin, Hacienda Tortugas, Omealca, 

 San Lorenzo, Alvarado, Plan del Rio, Zentla {Ferrari-Perez), Cordova {Salle^, 

 Sumichrast ^^), Mirador, Uvero {Sumichrast ^^), Atoyac {Mrs. H. H. Smith), Vega 

 del Casadero, Playa Vicente {M. Trujillo), Sierra de Alamos ( W. Lloyd), Mazatlan 

 {Grayson^^, Xantus^^, Forrer), San Bias {Collie^, W. B. Richardson), Plains of 

 Colima, R. Tupila {Xantus ^o), Putla {Rebouch), Acapulco {Mrs. H. H. Smith), 

 Chihuitan", Santa Efigenia", Cacoprieto i3, Tonala {Sumichrast), Tehuantepec 

 {W. B. Richardson), Merida in Yucatan {Schott% Izamal, Buctzotz {Gamier); 

 Bhitish Hondueas, Belize {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Vera Paz {Skinner 7), San 



