BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBIC A. 17 



more or less suffused with red, and black spots on under parts aver- 

 aging larger. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but black malar patch 

 wanting or much less distinct. 



Austroriparian faunal area of United States, from Florida and the 

 Gulf coast north to coast district of North Carolina (probably to 

 southeastern Virginia), southwestern Indiana and southeastern 

 Illinois Qower Wabash Valley), and southeastern Missouri. 



[Cumliis] auratua Linn^us, Syat. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 112 (Carolina; founded on 

 Picus major, alis aureis Catesby, Car., i, p. 18, 1. 18). 



[Pitsus] auratus LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 174. — Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, 

 pt. 1, 1788, 430.— Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 242. 



Pieus auratus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 70 ("Brazil"), 100, 

 part; Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 66, pi. 123, part.— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 

 64.— Lesson, Trait6 d'Om., 1831, 228.— Wilson, Am. Om., i, 1810, 45, pi. 3, 

 fig. 1, part. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. 1, 1826, 44, part. — Attdu- 

 BON, Om. Biog., i, 1832, 191, part, pi. 37; v, 1839, 540, part; Synopsis, 

 1839, 184, part; Birds Am., oet. ed., iv, 1842, 282, part, pi. 273.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Om. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 561, part. — Sundevall, Consp. Pie., 1866, 

 71, part. 



P[icus] auratus Bonaparte, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 368 

 parts; Oba. Wils. Am. Orn., 1826, [29], part. 



Colaptes auratus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, pp. xxvi, 314, part; Classif. 

 Birds, 1837, 310, part. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Oomp. List, 1838, 40, part. — 

 Ntjitall, Man. Orn. TJ. S. and Can., Land Birds, 2d ed., 1840, 663, part. — 

 Baird, Rep. Paeific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 118, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 97, part. — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 470 (San Antonio, Texas, 1 spec., 

 June).— CotJBS, Check List, 1873, no. 312, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 457, 

 part; Birds North-West, 1874, 292, part (in synonymy).— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 575, part, 

 pi. 55, figs. 1, 2. — ^Merriam, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 88 (St. Johns R., etc., 

 Florida; crit.).— (?)Reid, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1884, 213 (Bermuda, 

 rare straggler). — Ridgway, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 190, part; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 378, part; Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vi, 1881, 121 (Mt. 

 Carmel, Illinois; crit.); Om. Illinois, i, 1889, 387, part. — Ingersoll, Bull. 

 Nutt. Om. Club, vi, 1881, 184, part (vernacular synonymy). — Nehrlinq, 

 Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 171 (s. e. Texas, breeding, but chiefly in win- 

 ter) . — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed. , 1895), 

 no. 412, part; Auk, xvi, 1899, 111.— (?)Hasbrotjck, Auk, vi, 1889, 239 (East- 

 land Co., Texas, common). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 311- 

 313, part (variation of color-pattern upper tail-coverts), 323 (Corpus Christi, 

 Texas, 1 spec., March 26).— (?)Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1890, 12, 

 part. — Bbndire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 129, part.— (?)Carroll, 

 Auk, xvii, 1900, 344 (Refugio Co., Texas, 1 spec, March).— Burns, Wilson 

 Bull., no. 31, 1900, 1-82, part (monogr.).— Stockard, Auk, xxi, 1904, 467, 

 468 (Mississippi; breeding habits). — Fisher (G. C), Wilson Bull., no. 71, 

 1910, 127 (a Florida vernacular name).— Howell, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 383 (St. 

 Francis River and Cushion Lake, s. e. Missouri). — Beal, Bull. 37, U. S. 

 Biol. Surv., 1911, 52, part, pi. 6 (food). 



3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 2 



