18 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Colaptes] auratm Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 113, part.— Grat, Hand-list, 



ii, 1870, 202, no. 8822, part.— Cotjes, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 197, part.— 



Shakpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 201. 

 C[olaptes\ auratus Cov-EB, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 493, part.— RmGWAT, 



Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 378, part (Illinois); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 



295, part. 

 [Colaptes auratus] var. auratus Baibd, Beewbr, and Ridgwat, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 575, part. 

 Colaptes auratus auratus Obeeholseh, Notes on Mam. and Sum. Birds W. N. Car., 



1905, 14 (s. portion up to 4,000 ft.).— American Ornithologists' Union, 



Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 194. 

 Geopicos auratus Malherbb, M6m. Acad. Metz, xxx, 1849, 359, part. 

 Geopieus auratus Malherbb, Men. Picid., ii, 1862, 255, part; iv, pi. 109, figs. 



5, fi, 7. 

 (J)Colaptes auratus luteus (not of Bangs?) Ferrt, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 284 (Cairo, 



niinois, Feb.), 433 (Cairo, Aug.).— Woodrupp, Auk, xxv, 1908, 200 (Shan- 

 non Co., Missouri, March). 



COLAPTES AURATUS LUTEUS Bangs. 



irOSTHEBIT FLICElER. 



Similar in coloration to C. a. auratus,'^ but larger. 



Advlt male.— Ijeoj^h. (skins), 250-293 (265); wing, 154-165 (156.3); 

 tail, 96.5-112 (105.9); culmen, 31-40 (34.6); tarsus, 26.5-31 (28.1); 

 outer anterior toe, 20-23 (21.4).* 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 248-292 (259); wing, 149.5-159.5 

 (155); tail, 97-115 (103.9); culmen, 31-38.5 (33.8); tarsus, 26.5-29.5 

 (27.8); outer anterior toe, 20-23.5 (21.7)." 



Northern and central United States, east of Rocky Mountains, 

 except North Dakota, Minnesota, etc.; south to Virginia, western 

 North Carolina, northern South Carolina (at least in winter), north- 

 ern Alabama, eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, southern Indiana and 

 Illinois (except extreme southern portions), Missouri (except south- 

 eastern part), Kansas, etc.; in winter to Gulf coast and southern 

 Texas. 



Pieus auratus (not Cuculus auratus Linnseus) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 

 66, part, pi. 123; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 100.— Lesson, Tiait6 

 d'Om., 1831, 228, part.— Wilson, Am. Om., i, 1810, 45, part, pi. 3, fig. 1.— 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 44, part. — Aitditbon, 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., Land Birds, 1832, 561, part. — Sundevall, Consp. Pic, 1866, 

 71, part. 



P\icus\ auratus Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 368, part; 

 Obs. Wils. Am. Orn., 1826, [29], part. 



•» After very careful comparison of a large series of specimens I am not able to verify 

 a single one of the alleged color-differences mentioned by Mr. Bangs; indeed, even 

 specimens from northwestern Alaska (C. a. borealis) are quite as dark as Florida ex- 

 amples, and, so far as I can see, in every respect identical in coloration with them. 



6 Thirty-three specimens. 



c Thirty specimens. 



