CEOPHLCEUS. 451 



Geronimo, Duefias, Savana Grande, Retalhuleu (0. S. & F. B. G.) ■ Salyadoe, La 

 Libertad ( W. B. Bichardson) ; Hondueas, Omoa {Leyland % TruxillJ [Townsend i^), 

 San Pedro [G. M. Whitely\ Tigre I. [G. G. Taylor^) ; Nicaragua, Leon, Momo- 

 tombo ( W. B. Bichardson), Sucuya (Nutting 20), Rio Escondido (Bichmond) ; 1 Costa 

 Eica {Carmiol^^}, Aguacate Mts. (Eoffmann^^), Candelaria [Zeledon^^). 



This is one of the commonest of the larger Woodpeckers of our region, its range 

 being very similar to that of Campophilus guatemalensis, the southern limit of the two 

 species reaching Costa Rica, but not extending beyond into the State of Panama, where 

 its place is taken by C. lineatus. In Mexico its northern range is more extensive, as it 

 has been traced in the west to the Sierra de Alamos in Sonora by Mr. W. Lloyd, and 

 in the east to the Hacienda de la Cruz and Villa Grande in Nuevo Leon by Mr. Arm- 

 strong and to the Sierra above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas by Mr. Richardson. 

 From these points it is found uninterruptedly throughout Central America on both 

 sides of the main Cordillera, perhaps as far as Costa Rica. Its range in altitude is 

 rather less than that of C. guatemalensis, as we have no record of it at higher elevations 

 in Guatemala than the woods near Duenas — that is, about 5000 feet above sea-level. 



The iris in life is white. 



2. Ceophloeus lineatus. 



Picus lineatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 174'. 



Dryocopus lineatus, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 532 ^ 



CeophloBus lineatus, Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 508 ^ 



Dryocopus scapularis, Lawr. (nee Vigors), Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 333^. 



Dryocopus fuscipennis, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 366°. 



G. scapulari similis, sed major, rostro corneo nee eburneo, subalaribus albicantioribus facile distinguendus. 



Hob. Panama, Chiriqui (Kellett & Wood % Santa Fe (Arce), Lion Hill [M'Leannan * ^), 

 Chepo (ArcS). — South America, from Colombia to Brazil ^. 



This common South-American Woodpecker, whose range extends over nearly the 

 whole of the northern part of the continent, and even reaches the south-western and 

 eastern provinces of Brazil, entirely replaces C. scapularis in the State of Panama. We 

 have several records of it from that State, a specimen obtained by Capt. Kellett and 

 Capt. Wood in Chiriqui being the most westerly occurrence. Arce sent us examples 

 from Santa Fe and also from Chepo, and M'Leannan found it on the Line of the 

 Panama Railway. The birds sent us by the latter collector were referred by Sclater 

 and Salvin to C. fuscipennis of Western Ecuador, with an expressed doubt as to the 

 distinctness of that bird from C. lineatus, and in the ' Nomenclator Avium Neotropica- 

 lium ' they were considered identical. Hargitt, however, in his ' Catalogue,' resuscitates 

 C. fuscipennis as a distinct species, but places the Panama birds with C. lineatus. On 

 re-examining the question, and in view of the worn and faded condition of the types 

 of C. fuscipennis, we do not hesitate to adhere to the opinion expressed in the 



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