NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
rower than the black ones; breast, etc., deep smoky 
gray, or olive-gray; adult male with red crown-patch 
usually confluent with orange or orange-red of nape; 
middle tail-feathers usually varied with white. Hab. 
Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico, 
north to Jalapa and Mirador. 
M. santa-cruzi (Bonap.). Santa Cruz’s Woodpecker.! 
f*. Bars on back, etc., broader, the white ones equal to black 
ones in width; breast, ete., pale brownish gray or dull 
grayish white; adult male with red crown-patch usu- 
ally entirely surrounded by ash-gray—rarely confiuent 
with the orange, orange-red, or yellow of nape; middle 
tail-feather always (?) entirely black. 
Adult male: Crown with a bright red patch, usually 
surrounded by pale grayish (paler, sometimes 
nearly white, across forehead), but sometimes con- 
fluent posteriorly, along the median line, with the 
orange of the hind-neck; frontlet bright yellow. 
Adult female: Similar to the male, but crown en- 
tirely light grayish (paler anteriorly), the yellow 
of frontlet and belly and orange or yellow of hind- 
neck paler. Young: Much duller in colors than 
adult, the markings much less sharply defined, 
and the bright colors of head but faintly indi- 
cated; breast indistinctly streaked with dusky. 
Wing 5.20-5.65, tail 3.40-3.75, culmen 1.20-1.40. 
Eggs 1.02 X .77. Hab. Northeastern Mexico and 
southern Texas....... 410. M. aurifrons (Wact.). 
Golden-fronted Woodpecker. 
é. Hind-neck soft light grayish brown, or smoky drab. 
Rump and upper tail-coverts regularly barred with black. 
Adult male: Head, neek, and most of lower parts uni- 
form soft smoky drab or light grayish brown, the 
middle of the crown with a crimson patch. Adult 
female: Similar to the male, but no red on crown. 
Young: Not essentially different from adult, but 
markings less sharply defined, and colors duller. 
Wing 5.00-5.30, tail 3.50-3.90, culmen .95-1.25. Eggs 
.96 x .71. Hab. Southern Arizona, southeastern Cali- 
fornia, Lower California, and western Mexico, south 
to Mazatlan. ° : 
411. M. uropygialis (Barrp). Gila Woodpecker. 
1 Centurus santa-cruzit Bonap., P. Z. 8. 1837, 116. 
